RalphsBlend
Well-Known Member
I don't know if the FPSH is the best vaporizer ever, as I feel like you could make some improvements, but what does a universal "better" look like? I've learned from cars that so many things are engineering tradeoffs that get in the way of a universal "better".
That said I'm just gonna ramble based on what I've observed using it.
Part of what I like about this vape is how bulletproof and future proof it is. As long as you can find 20mm barrel coils with controllers it will work, and work well, albeit perhaps with differing heat-up times. Find a better PID? Great, slap it in there. You could make improvements to the heater, but do those changes result in a proprietary parts trap and lack of future-proofing? This part I don't think I would touch.
There are a couple areas I feel this vape could get better, specifically heating airpath, and a good way to track temperatures in the bowl.
1) I feel this vape would benefit from a more Supreme like airpath (for the heating), but the obvious question is does this unduly increase heat-up time and ease of use? Another part of this vape that is amazing is that it isn't unwieldy or awkward really. It needs a stand, and it needs a place, but the actual heating element is light and not bulky. The Supreme, for all the things it does right, is also a fairly large aluminum heatsink block that gets really hot and thus it does what it does really really well but it's just not a vape that screams "ease of use" by comparison. See also, material costs. If the airpath is getting longer, what does that do to A) the machining required and B) the amount of material needed? Titanium isn't cheap, and neither is machining it. The only "easy" solution I could come up with is smaller but more frequent holes. But the more I thought about it, the more I wasn't convinced that this would be "easy". You don't want to compromise structural integrity and too fine a mesh of holes could potentially do that. Also ease of machining, I suspect that making the holes smaller and more frequent could increase machining costs non-trivially despite what improvements to heat consistency you could potentially realize. I feel like there's probably a way to improve the heater airpath, but it may a non-trivial usability compromise and/or require lateral thinking, and the result might not be as otherwise easy to use as it is currently (fiddly bits, draw restriction increases, that sort of thing). I dunno, I think about that aspect of improvement more than I probably should.
2) I would really like is a good way to check the temp at the screen. I don't think that even needs to be complicated, BYO temp probe, but perhaps a bowl that has a pluggable hole (with a narrow worm nut perhaps?) above the screen specifically designed to drop probes into in addition to the current offerings? I feel with the advent of the adjustabowl this is an easier goal to pursue but I don't know how much demand there would be for it.
...TL;DR: it's close.
That said I'm just gonna ramble based on what I've observed using it.
Part of what I like about this vape is how bulletproof and future proof it is. As long as you can find 20mm barrel coils with controllers it will work, and work well, albeit perhaps with differing heat-up times. Find a better PID? Great, slap it in there. You could make improvements to the heater, but do those changes result in a proprietary parts trap and lack of future-proofing? This part I don't think I would touch.
There are a couple areas I feel this vape could get better, specifically heating airpath, and a good way to track temperatures in the bowl.
1) I feel this vape would benefit from a more Supreme like airpath (for the heating), but the obvious question is does this unduly increase heat-up time and ease of use? Another part of this vape that is amazing is that it isn't unwieldy or awkward really. It needs a stand, and it needs a place, but the actual heating element is light and not bulky. The Supreme, for all the things it does right, is also a fairly large aluminum heatsink block that gets really hot and thus it does what it does really really well but it's just not a vape that screams "ease of use" by comparison. See also, material costs. If the airpath is getting longer, what does that do to A) the machining required and B) the amount of material needed? Titanium isn't cheap, and neither is machining it. The only "easy" solution I could come up with is smaller but more frequent holes. But the more I thought about it, the more I wasn't convinced that this would be "easy". You don't want to compromise structural integrity and too fine a mesh of holes could potentially do that. Also ease of machining, I suspect that making the holes smaller and more frequent could increase machining costs non-trivially despite what improvements to heat consistency you could potentially realize. I feel like there's probably a way to improve the heater airpath, but it may a non-trivial usability compromise and/or require lateral thinking, and the result might not be as otherwise easy to use as it is currently (fiddly bits, draw restriction increases, that sort of thing). I dunno, I think about that aspect of improvement more than I probably should.
2) I would really like is a good way to check the temp at the screen. I don't think that even needs to be complicated, BYO temp probe, but perhaps a bowl that has a pluggable hole (with a narrow worm nut perhaps?) above the screen specifically designed to drop probes into in addition to the current offerings? I feel with the advent of the adjustabowl this is an easier goal to pursue but I don't know how much demand there would be for it.
...TL;DR: it's close.
) but I would definitely use it for experimentation as I'm really curious to see what the temp/draw combinations I like actually mean in terms of heat at the screen, and would make for interesting data to conduct some hard data based experimentation.
GAS is real, man. 
