Disagree, and I think I can speak for
@OF here as well. Try reaching top temp, and then insert your stem and pull - and see how "convective" it is?
That 30s heatsoak is just that - conduction.
Lots of fun stuff, for sure. More fun than Ford/Chevy even. In a fun way, a good thing?
One additional 'thought experiment' on the conduction/convection thing (as if we need to keep beating this horse.....): consider the vaulted 'Ed's Stems' experience? That stem has obvious conduction losses as heat is conducted up the metal part faster than it would be up the glass ones. Even though heat is also being conducted into the load faster, only so much heat is available from the cup to supply it? So what do we do......
we bump the heat up a notch or two with Ed's stems?
To compensate for the less efficient conduction heating due to the conductivity of the metal over glass. Convection would not need this, would it? And if, in fact, convection was the dominant mechanism we would have increased the vaping temperature up that same 18 degrees or so?
At the risk of repeating myself again, if you think in thermodynamic terms hot air has to be much hotter going in that coming out to supply heat energy to make the vapor happen. This is why your home heater blows 120F air around, not 72. It needs 'extra heat' so it can warm stuff (and people) inside up some and still be 72F (or whatever the target is). You need this 'delta T' (change in temperature) to move the heat. A convection source with the same temperature as the conduction source (as is here) means very little energy enters the system that way.
Not that it matters if you like the results of course. Nor, for that matter if you don't. It's just a name at that point. 'A rose, by any other name......'
Hopefully in a month or so this will 'die down' some as the chatter shifts to how wonderful and useful Solo II as a vapor making tool. And I think, in the end, that's all it really is? A tool, only valuable if it does a needed job well? Not that it's not pretty to look at, of course. But this ain't no stinking art forum.
Regards to all as we wait for the PIU ship (or whatever) to come in......
OF