So i tried heating the top surface where the holes are and i found myself getting vapor quicker but i also got more of a hotspot on the top. It could be my specific technique but the heating was less even for me when doing this.
I then did more of my vapcap style slow spin with my flame hitting some of the holes on top and the tip of the flame hitting the inner part of the side of the cap, so hitting from the side but just slightly angled down and i found that to work really well.
I ended up getting 10+ hits by slowly doing this and i found the heating to be overall more even. This may also just be because slower extraction leads to more evenness than going for quick extraction. This 10+ hit session was shocking to me because the load just kept going and some of the hits were on the larger side too. Of course, this also slowed down the session but it was nice to see this thing could pull tons of vapor out of so little.
The main thing I did to get some extra hits was, i would take 2-3 hits, then i would take off the cap and then remove any of the top layer that was brown/black, then i would stir slightly by tapping my finger on the side of the bowl and go at it again for 2 hits, remove the top layer again, stir and go. I found that i could remove that top layer 2-3 times before it was fully extracted. I vape outside so this wasn’t too bad of a process and i feel like got an extra 3-5 hits doing this. Is this necessary or worth it? Debatable. I think extraction is plenty thorough and good without doing this, but if you wanna darken every part of the bowl, im finding this technique helpful.
I also combusted cuz i forgot what i was doing at some point lol, so its a good technique imo but if you forget to only take 1 or 2 hits after removing a dark layer, you may combust on hit number 3. That dark layer at the top is what make combustion more likely imo. So removing it allows you to take more hits while cutting down risk of combustion. I also got my biggest hit after removing a top layer of dark bits. So its not like your getting wisps of trash vapor as you remove flower like this, there’s still some good hits in there.
Idk if just stirring normally and putting the dark bits somewhere else in the bowl is just as useful, it might be. I lost my pic so i was using a brush to loosen the top layer and remove the dark spots instead. Maybe i’ll use a toothpick to stir instead to see how that goes, i’ll edit and add a comparison here if i do so.
I enjoy slowly extracting every bit of vapor from flower like this. So its nice to know you can also take that approach if you want too.
This could all come down to personal technique, and im interested to see how other peoples testing goes, but for me, i think some form of stirring or at least removing the dark bits top layer a couple times will give you a couple more hits most likely. However, most of the time i have not been doing this and the efficiency and effects have still been great. But if you’re someone that is attached to seeing every bit of a bowl evenly dark, i think the technique described above is helpful.
This vape is pretty unique and it always seems get me excited about the vape itself as im using it lol. I’ll continue to test things further and will update here with anything i discover. But at some point i’ll maybe drop into the background and see what you guys figure out. Im not the heaviest user, so im only giving info based on more limited usage. I might use it tonight and discover that eveything i figured out last night doesn’t hold true and it was a fluke. So really, it might be more fruitful to see if others find that they are getting similar results or not. Im just observing as much as i can with my limited usage and im sharing it because its still a new vape.
But i wanna emphasize that you shouldn’t take my findings as gospel truth, and hopefully we’ll see more confirmation of what I observe or we’ll see people saying they have not observed anything like what i’ve experienced.
So ya, gonna try to deactivate for a bit and let others in the thread explore this vape further. I will say, this vape gets me excited about it whenever i use it. Even combustion was a surprisingly good experience, it only burned .01-.02 of flower, i didn’t cough and my vape barely smelled at all, maybe that was luck but the consequences of combustion felt less bothersome than most vapes. It continued to get me excited to learn the vape more and im hoping others that learn the device share things here because im gonna love testing out the findings of others down the line.
The vape isn’t perfect but gosh damn do i love it. Its the first time portable convection has gotten me to that desktop convection type of experience. Last night was the highest i’ve been in quite some time. 2-3 bowls and im flying. Definitely becoming a Convector fanboy the more i use it. Excited for others to get their hands on it to see what they think and what they discover about it.
