bluntfaced said:
The volcano is perfectly efficient at small doses it is just unpleasant and rather unsatisfying. It will still get you there you will just realllyyyy want to load it up and rip that shit.
Can it be called "efficient" if a small dose is "just unpleasant and unsatisfying". I think part of the definition of "efficieny" for a vaporizer would mean that it could get you high and satisfied at small doses. At least, that would be part of my definition of "efficiency" as it pertains to a vaporizer.
Some people just want to conserve mj due to the price. That's a very good reason. But other people are looking for efficiency in the ability to get a good vape or two off a very small dose, because they are looking to get smaller doses, like maybe only one medium vape.
I'll give you an example: Tonight I was further experimenting with my Vapor Genie, and I COULD get a very small dose from it, with only loading like .020 g, something like that. So the Vapor Genie can be efficient by my definition of being able to get high enough - again, for ME - from a very small amount. I know from experience that I got less high loading twice that much into the Volcano. I did LIKE the Volcano high, myself. But it was very mellow, very weak, I would even say, for the amount I put in.
So, to me, the Vapor Genie can be very efficient. The problem with the Genie is that there is a relatively long learning curve inherent in it. I mean, yeah, you can make vapor pretty quickly. But making vapor to just the right strength and size is a bit of a challenge. Whereas, from what I hear of the PD, the MZ, the Launch Box, there is much less challenge to getting somewhere near a "perfect" vapor with a relatively small amount.
Someone mentioned the size of the bowl as being important. I think that is probably mostly true. If the bowl is designed for small hits, and the vape is designed for small hits, then that is probably going to be more efficient than a vape designed with a big bowl for big hits.
But if someone wants a big hit from a big bowl, then he's going to want one like that. Is it more efficient, no; but is it better for that person? Yes.
But I'm not talking about which is "better", here; I'm talking about which is more "efficient" for x amount of herb to cause x amount of stoned and being able to get a good high from a small hit. Again, that is part of my definition of "efficiency".
Ideas like "the bowl size matters" I think are valid points to be made about efficiency. Is it true? I don't know, but from what people are saying, it sounds like it might be true. And that's the point of this thread, to me: to speculate on these things and bring out working theories as to "what makes an efficient vaporizer". Sorry this was so long. It's late and I'm obsessing, I know. Believe me, none of this really matters that much. I just find it interesting.
on the issue of efficiency. Yes it is pretty much exploiting the three variables of herb, air, and heat... but efficiency comes into play by how each one of the vapes manipulates these variables. A small amount in the PD is efficient in that the bowl size and vape design allows for a larger amount of THC too be pulled from the herb. Take the same amount of herb and put it into a much larger vape and you wont get the same results. I say this from experience. Too much air flowing over the herb, or rather not enough herb to restrict the airflow so it does not get the full benefit of the heated air.
