TigoleBitties
Big and Bouncy
Ok so here are a few thoughts after a couple of bowls.
It's very easy to get vapor. I heated for about 15s. Wait about 20s for a heat soak. Then I heat for about 7s and start testing for vapor. Once it starts flowing I continue heating 2-3s more then remove the Wand.
I can usually get one huge and one average cloud per heat cycle. Once the 5DT is warm though each heat cycle is only about 7s.
I placed it in my 18mm DHGate dimpled sherlock and it was tasty and airy with a wide open draw. Pure convection power. Using the Wand to re-heat definitely feels like re-lighting a pipe. Adding and removing the Wand to alter the temperature of the metal, and in turn the hot air, similarly feels like bringing a match closer to or farther from a pipe. It's a cool dynamic that I feel will be fun to master to get the hits I want.
The bowl is huge. Ryan claims you need about 0.25g just to have it function correctly and efficiently. So far I've tried two bowls around this size and yeah, it worked great but it's a lot
. Maybe I'll try smaller bowls to see what happens but I could see this guy being great for sharing.
On the other hand, it is all glass and given that your cooling solution is likely glass too... gotta be careful. Not just for breakage but once the 5DT is up to temp, the outer glass top is raging hot and exposed. The glass handle is appropriately long for a reason. This thing dumped so much heat into my sherlock that it was hard to hold at one point. Quite the beast.
It's very easy to get vapor. I heated for about 15s. Wait about 20s for a heat soak. Then I heat for about 7s and start testing for vapor. Once it starts flowing I continue heating 2-3s more then remove the Wand.
I can usually get one huge and one average cloud per heat cycle. Once the 5DT is warm though each heat cycle is only about 7s.
I placed it in my 18mm DHGate dimpled sherlock and it was tasty and airy with a wide open draw. Pure convection power. Using the Wand to re-heat definitely feels like re-lighting a pipe. Adding and removing the Wand to alter the temperature of the metal, and in turn the hot air, similarly feels like bringing a match closer to or farther from a pipe. It's a cool dynamic that I feel will be fun to master to get the hits I want.
The bowl is huge. Ryan claims you need about 0.25g just to have it function correctly and efficiently. So far I've tried two bowls around this size and yeah, it worked great but it's a lot
. Maybe I'll try smaller bowls to see what happens but I could see this guy being great for sharing.On the other hand, it is all glass and given that your cooling solution is likely glass too... gotta be careful. Not just for breakage but once the 5DT is up to temp, the outer glass top is raging hot and exposed. The glass handle is appropriately long for a reason. This thing dumped so much heat into my sherlock that it was hard to hold at one point. Quite the beast.
