Had a few days to play around with the VRod, and while I like it, I'm not sure mine is living up to its full potential.
I keep reading about people lowering their temps with the VRod, but I'm having the opposite result. The really big difference for me is with concentrates. With the 20mm WA and quartz dish, I was at 666 capped and having fantastic results. I tried 666 capped on the VRod and quartz dish and experienced wispy hits and major pooling in the dish. In order to get comparable hits to my WA, I'm using the VRod at 757-767 capped and enjoying it. I can get nice dabs out of the VRod, but why am I almost 100° higher on my VRod than WA?
Previously with flower and the SH, I was typically using 727-737 uncapped. I'm slightly lower with the VRod, 707-727 uncapped as well. Like
@steama , I was getting the burned ring as well. I have since slowed my draw speed and the browning is much more even again. So flower performance is pretty similar at this point.
I'm just really confused as to why I'm having to bump my temps so high get a comparable dab experience. I'm using the same concentrates as before, so that hasn't changed. My quartz dish feels like it's making complete contact with the VRod, the nut is certainly hand tight. And all of this is with a thoroughly heat soaked VRod.
Can I request some help from a fellow VRod owner? With a cool VRod, plug the air intake hole on top. Are you still able to draw air? With my air intake blocked, I'm still able to get a decent amount of draw through my bubbler. Perhaps mine doesn't seal correctly?
One other thing I've noticed, is there is a slight gap between the top and bottom of the VRod when assembled on my coil. The pieces need to screw together another 1/8th of a turn to make a complete seal. You can tell by the markings on the bottom piece. The pieces screw together completely without the coil installed.
I'm trying to determine if my VRod is defective, or something else causing my issues. I'm using a coil purchased from NV for the 4/20 sale.
I also get much more sticking on the post with my VRod. If I don't take it off once during the initial heat up, it can be very difficult to remove. One time, it was so stuck, I just had to turn it off and let it cool before I could remove it. I was afraid I'd bend the coil if I rocked it any harder. I'm using the V2 of the SS post. I'm considering picking up the Ti post at some point, but it's more of an inconvenience at this point.
The other thing I've noticed, is the temp of the VRod seems to bounce around much more than my SH or WA. The temp will be stable when it's just resting on the post, but when I put the VRod back on the post after holding it for multiple hits, the temp of the coil will drop 20°. Putting the SH back on the post after a similar time would result in a drop of 5°, maybe 7° at the most. The temp will also shoot up a few degrees when taken off the post. Assuming this has to do with the thermal mass of the VRod?
Any insight/help is appreciated. Thanks!
The flower in the SH is even more insane on terps (Magik F5). I just love having the same buds and concentrates literally from the same bag available. This bud/rosin tastes like Lemonade mixed with Sprite. The effects are gnarly, this one doesn't have much of a ceiling kinda like the cuvee I have.
