I got my revised vrod yesterday, new everything since my coil was stuck in the head ... I'm noticing so far with this one though, my temps seem much higher to achieve the same results with concentrates ... I'm running probably 75-100F higher than I was with my previous VROD ... the IR gun shows quite the discrepancy between the dish temp and the coil temp too (175-200F)
I was running at 585F, and this seems to have a cooler dish at 650F ... 585F for flowers still seems the same though ... so it's heat transfer to the SiC dish, not to the body ... hmmm ...
To follow up further on my own message here ... there are a couple things I've noticed:
1. The NV SiC dish I believe records a lower temp than actual (and then what the D-Nail dish does) with the IR gun probably due to it's lighter colour and probably higher reflectivity
2. I didn't have my VROD head parts tight enough together. This time when assembling, I got an extra last little <1/4 turn between the two head parts, and it closed up the seam quite a bit, and the dish temp is now way hotter, and seems to be working right (it might be
slightly cooler than my old VROD setup, but not much)
So ... make sure you get the 2 parts of your head together nice and tight; coil contact is crucial! I also made sure the end of my coil was bent in far enough to get contact ... the thermocouple for the coil is in the tip so it's important the tip makes good contact ... otherwise your reading won't be nearly as good.
I've been using a new toy of mine that I built as well ... I'll post a video and thread about it shortly ... I call it
eNail Magic 
It's a box that sits between your eNail controller and coil, with a rotary dial and push button, and it allows you to run "scripts" at the push of a button so you can do down-temps etc with fairly complex patterns/steps with temp delays, time delays, etc. I was getting really tired of fiddling with the coil switch on the back of my eNail controller to do down-temps with the D-Nail base and a modified down-temp type procedure with the VROD. Now I click a button, and it turns on/off the coil for me at all the appropriate times
With the v-rod, I like to turn off the coil when I start the hit ... then turn it back on once the temp has dropped 50F, then turn on briefly to get it to go up to 25F below start temp, then off/delay for 10 sec, then turn back on. (I'm still fiddling around with the exact profile/steps for the VROD as I only just finished building this thing last night ... and spent time with my D-Nail Halo base getting the down-temp scripts fine tuned for that yesterday
... just fiddling with my VROD profile/steps this morning
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