This may be my last post in this thread because I'm sick of being told how wrong I am after finding, documenting, and sharing very useful solutions to real problems experienced by real users of this device, then being told I'm wrong without anyone even attempting to demonstrate, in any way, how I am wrong, then making up ridiculous explanations for why this machine works so well specifically by not doing what it's supposed to do.
If I'm wrong, don't tell me; show me. Because when you say I'm wrong and act like you know what you're talking about, when I am right, all you do is keep other people from taking me seriously, thus keeping them in the dark. No one has demonstrated that I'm wrong, or even attempted to. If you do demonstrate that I am wrong, it will not upset me at all. Rather, I will learn something I may not have been able to learn on my own, which will make me happy.
There is nothing any more "medical" about the Aromed than any other vape. That is just marketing. Also, there's nothing about vaping at extremely low temperatures that is any more "medical" than vaping at extremely high temperatures. To me, that's just cheating yourself.
If you don't like being able to vape at within 50° or 100° of the displayed temperature, then great. I do, and at least a couple other people do, too.
Just remember, I now use my Aromed pretty much exclusively, even though it was basically useless to me the first five months I owned it; even when I managed to convince myself it wasn't useless. I had to make drastic changes in the function of my Aromed for it to be something I want to use every day, or at all; changes I will have to make over and over if I want to continue receiving relief from my Aromed.
At this point I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THE AROMED TO ANYONE; especially legitimate medical users like myself, who live in absolutely horrible pain and other kinds of discomfort every second, are barely able to move, are very clumsy specifically because of their medical condition, etc. The Aromed simply requires too much work for its alleged target market, as well as too much potential for clumsiness, which results in broken expensive glass.
But since it looks like a 50-year-old medical device, it must be a medical device. Right?
The things I find negative about the Aromed could easily be refined to make it infinitely more useful for its target market, as well as for everyone else, without taking away anything from anyone. But they make no attempt, and they have never made an attempt. I am not going to praise them for choosing not to make revisions that would or could benefit every single user of this device.
If I was the producer of this product (or any product), negative feedback is exactly what I would want to hear from my customers, specifically so I could know what I have to do to make it more useful for everyone in my target market; specifically so I could earn some of their money. And I would also pay very close attention to things like the FC message boards, where people tell me for free how my product could be more attractive to even more people. You know, like Underdog and others do numerous times every day.
But they just don't do that.
I don't know how well this thing sells, but I do know that essentially no one on the planet (except me) talks about it.
Almost everything below was written yesterday, before I even read the response(s) to what I posted yesterday morning.
WRITTEN THE MORNING OF 1/11/16:
With my current modification, I am able to see a small amount of vapor at 270°F. With a previous mod, I was able to see a small amount of vapor at 330°F. Without any modifications, I can't see vapor at any setting below 340°F. I am becoming inclined to think the reason why I can now see vapor at 270 when I previously couldn't see vapor at any temperature below 330 is because of my "doughnut" mod, which you can see in my picture below (with an explanation following the picture).
Surprisingly, vaping 5-10 g of herbs at 270°-300° w
ith the modification pictured below created a noticeable effect. However, it did not seem to relax me at all, which is probably by far the most important effect for me. In fact, vaping at an extremely low temperature seems to have made me feel even tighter, or jittery. This is all the cannabis I have consumed since waking up today.
Here's the current mod:
The screen is about 5-7 mm below the bottom of the lightbulb casing. I created a dough ring atop the screen to keep my herbs in the center of the herb chamber and to help direct the hot air through the herbs instead of blowing them to where the temperature is lower. If I remember correctly, the hole in the "doughnut" was a little smaller at first but I scraped off some of the baked dough to enlarge the hole. I have used this particular ring for long enough that it is near retirement (because it's blackened and broken).
I know someone is going to tell me how this is going to kill me (simply because it's dark), and they're going to do it by using a term they know absolutely nothing about (like
potassium bromate). If so, all I can say is get real. Also, one thing you might notice is that it's not dark around the outside. That's NOT because heat gets distributed evenly within the Aromed herb holder.
WRITTEN THE AFTERNOON OF 1/11/16 (after the mail arrived)
My new glassware arrived today. The "Magic" emblem is not at the same height as the "Magic" emblem on my original herb holder. I don't have a problem with this; I'm just reporting this so everyone will know the height of certain letters on the herb holder doesn't tell us anything because it's not consistent between all herb holders.
Also, the first thing I did with this new glassware was load 0.05 g into the unmodified herb holder, then start vaping at 270°F. This didn't do anything; 340°F was the lowest temperature to produce any visible vapor. I'm not saying big clouds; I'm saying ANYTHING.
Also, 456°F (unmodified) felt like a lower temperature than 356°F feels with my Air. 456 (unmodified) also failed to brown my herbs to the extent that 356°F with my Air browns herbs.
Every measurable characteristic tells me very clearly that the number on my display is inaccurate by at least 70°F. Conversely, nothing indicates that I get a different effect because my two vapes simply function differently at equivalent temperatures. Everything indicates that the different results are entirely a result of the two vapes operating at completely temperatures when set at the same temperature.
That's just what the evidence keeps telling me, over and over. I am not hoping for any specific result to prove myself right or prove anyone else wrong. Rather, I am simply listening to what the evidence tells me, then sharing that information.
Convection does not mean every molecule of air is the same temperature as every other molecule of air. When using an Aromed, air is pulled away from the heat source, not pushed. Additionally, it's pulled from a very small area at the center of the bottom of the herb chamber. Which means every part of the screen not directly above the stem is considerably cooler than the area directly above the stem. Which is why herbs in the center of the herb holder always darken quicker than herbs around the perimeter of the herb holder, which really don't ever darken for me unless I stir the herbs.
My current interpretation of the informal experiment I have just conducted is that 456°F with my Aromed, unmodified, is fairly equivalent to using the Aromed at no higher than 300°F with my current modification. Since I do not combust at 456°F with this mod, I can only conclude that the displayed temperature with the mod is more accurate than the displayed temperature without the mod. Also, the herbs vaped at 270° with the riser mod seem to be the same color as herbs vaped at 456° unmodified.
Everyone I know of who has tried my riser mod has gotten the same or similar results as me. Everyone who seems to want the explanation to be different than the explanation I have proposed hasn't tried it. That is science at work, working.
If you don't try it, you don't get to tell me I'm wrong. I don't care how much you think you know. And if the roles were reversed, I would expect you to say the same thing to me.
If and when anything changes to suggest to me that my current understanding of what's going on here is inaccurate, I will admit that I was wrong, then I will immediately continue looking for the right explanation. But if that evidence never materializes, I will have to assume my explanation is at least mostly accurate. Because that's how science works.
If I disagree with anyone (or myself, which I have done quite a bit), based entirely on evidence I have seen over and over, it's not personal. So please do not take it that way.