Regarding the inhale rates, different settings, and people not getting adequate clouds like
@mrbonsai420, I have a question for all you V3 donuters:
after you press the button down, how long are you waiting to start hitting on the mouthpiece?
We're mentioning the different warm-up times for the donut to reach protection at different wattages.
Without providing airflow over the donut, it seems at least 6-7 seconds around 25w, and about 4 seconds around 32-35w. If the user is drawing over the mouthpiece during this temperature ramp up, it will take even longer.
If you just load it up and hold the button and mindlessly start hitting the mouthpiece right away, it's not gonna make any vape, it's not anywhere near the temp target you told it yet. The donut will take forever to reach temp, make meager vape, waste your oil, and you'll get mostly air. I don't know if anyone is doing this, sorry to insult yalls' intelligence if nobody is doing this
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But many new users have made sillier newb mistakes with the 2.5/2.7
FWIW, all my rips of the V3 have been wet, on my rigs so far; I can watch the screen easily while in use. At 32w now, I've been getting big rips at lower temps, still clearing the donut in mostly one puff between 310-330F.
2 or 3 seconds after the button goes down, the donut temp is rising, when it's only one or two screen cycles away from protection (mid-upper 200's) I start drawing on my rig and I see the lighter, fractional (terpy?) vape start flowing, immediately followed by a hurricance gale of the rest of the THC and heavier compouds after.
With my typical loads, after the 4 second warmup time, maybe I get 4-6 seconds of thick vape production out of a small load. Then some wispy vape may follow.
Just in case I want to hit the vape flow for longer after it's reached temp, I have been pre-emptively cycling my fire button at the display of mid-200 (240, 260, 280F etc) so I can have 10 full seconds of milking the donut when it's near protection. That way I can try to vape up most of the load in 1 puff, and so I don't have my puff interrupted by 10-second protection.
With the v2.5 donut warmup time being near instant @ 25w, I never had a need to cycle my button before.
Oh damn vape snap!
Guys, remind me not to annoy Steven.
Magnets are fine for vapes. The evic VTC has 2 strong magnets for the battery case.
(fernand knows this all too well.) Source and other attys use it for the mouthpiece. It's not a problem. But I wouldn't trust magnets to keep everything tight inside a stuffed pocket or backpack.
How would the magnets even be secured in the base or deck? Glue? More screws?
I don't have any problem with screws right now, but I do like the O-ring idea if we can get 2 really tight o-rings inside the metal base to hold the outer ceramic body. For most users this isn't much of an issue, but Steve is a power user. you're probably wanting to clean this thing in the car and out of the house alot? Options like o-rings could help the Stevens of the world keep their donuts and cups clean with less hassle
Not any major ideas yet, still exploring this thing. It would be nice to see either the ceramic cup or the outer ceramic housing to have some
top airflow over the donut so we can try the crucible thing here?
I like the O-rings in the metal deck too. Some of these different part options can even be modular and compatible, so different users can have different size / airflow / fastening options but they all work together and are still V3 donuts?
Maybe an
adjustable air throttle like the siaonara and many RTAs? But with the current air intake just being holes in the ceramic body, it would take a big redesign to offer this?
Hopefully they're already in the works and on-the-way, but I think the
medium sized 10mm donuts might be the best spare part for the V3. I'm surely loving my new large donuts, more than the 2.5 so far, but sometimes it is more than I need for a session. There is a time and place for these large donuts surely, but such a large surface is not needed for a typical sesh.
I hope the medium donuts can still pack a big punch, taste great, be easy to load, but also can have a quicker ramp-up time and offer a few decent, reclaimy hits when broken in after a fresh reload that some guys like me and Steven like (most of the time?) so we don't have to reload so frequently?