This new Air would be great if it holds temp better over a draw. Been using my original Air the last few days, it's really not a bad vaporizer with a proper heat soak. Can't beat the maintenance schedule on these things, that's for sure.
It would indeed. But I don't think that's happened on the Solo I/II upgrade? At least not significantly enough to get rave reviews (or even notice.....). There are a few things that can be done to improve this, but they (of course) have drawbacks.
Increasing the 'thermal mass' of the cup so it's temperature doesn't drop as fast (and can supply heat longer therefore) will help, but then heat up time suffers and temperature control becomes a bit harder since that delay needs to be factored in to keep top efficiency. And the oven gets bigger/heavier.
Moving the sensor closer to the load helps, but has serious mechanical problems. The fact that the indicator shows ready when the load is not hot enough to make vapor demonstrates the 'disconnect' here?
More sophisticated controls ("PID") can be used to sense the drop and fire the heater up in advance and keep adding more power over time. You can see part of this function (the I part?) in the cruse control of your car when it hits a hill. It keeps using more and more throttle (the P part, Proportional) in an effort to keep the rate of loss of speed (the D part) in line, anticipating if you will. But I think the above two factors (already existing thermal mass and 'disconnect' between sensor and load) prevent most of this. The downside is you 'go the wrong way', and trying to be faster causes you to oscillate violently (heater full on, full off, full on, full off......rather that smooth). In airplanes the wings fall of next.
It'll be fun to see, of course, but I bet if it could be done reasonably it would be there already?
"Life is full of compromises, you might have less hair to comb, but you've got more forehead to wash".
So...not isolated? Almost only counts in hand grenades and horse shoes.
As they say, "there's the rub". It's a slippery slope indeed. Many are happy at escaping the obvious poison of combustion and see this as trivial.
OTOH, there are those for whom the chance of even the smallest amount is too much. We see this in many areas of life these days.
And lots in between, of course. To the zero tolerance guys I'm still kind of curious about how they feel about say cell phones? Holding the electronics under your nose and all. Not to mention the radiation (several European studies on that one, much more serious than 'power line EMF pollution)........
Fun stuff. Sometimes. IMO the design of the entire line is safe in this respect, but I think I've said as much a few times?
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