The ceramic nails are Ti with a ceramic coating. The quartz nail, and I assume anything similar that gets released, sits in a Ti cup. The vaping works well for flowers for pyrolysis. The lower profiles that don’t char (pyrolysis) are like you describe, airy and light, and aren’t anything I like to use.
I want to make this very clear, if you like your Mighty or Flowermate or anything on this site that vapes dry herbs and want similar vapor and abv, this isn’t the unit. When I first got it I had to go back to Dabber and ask them why we’re burning all the weed because of the taste. It took a few conversations with their engineer and a lot of sessions where I played with the leftovers to get my old mind wrapped around it not burning. I had to go look up pyrolysis and ask my industry friends if it was bullshit. And I had other seasoned vaporists check it out with me. There’s not a profile on the machine that vapes dry herbs like I’m used to and I don’t use it for that except to dick around with the pyrolysis. It tastes like smoke to me, but the proof is in the leftovers. Approach this one with an open mind.
There’s no reason it can’t vape any way we want. We just need more time in development with some new accessories. I think a lot of innovation for it will come from this forum. I get excited thinking what
@Pipes could come up with for it!
Hi Sticks - another guy we both know also has much less than stellar results with trying to use it for herb. He also got black AVB and was also told that this is not combustion. Well, its certainly carbonized from pyrolysis. LOL I think there is a lot of hair splitting about this subject. To me, black is burnt, end of story.
But, here is def of pyrolisis and frankly its not what I want to do with herb:
Carbonization (or carbonisation) is the conversion of an organic substance into carbon or a carbon-containing residue through pyrolysis or destructive distillation. It is often used in organic chemistry with reference to the generation of coal gas and coal tar from raw coal.
Its charred and that's that. The fact that oxygen is not present so you can't have oxidation (burning) is not that relevant to me. I don't want pyrolisis as in addition to carbon you can get other less helpful byproducts of the flower's decomposition. Just silly me, but there it is.
My personal view is that dual purpose vapes (flower and trates) do only one or the other particularly well and I do see this device as having a lot of potential for 'trates.
Trying to make one vape device do it all well reminds me of the F-4 (yes, I was in the USAF). McNamara and his gang of efficiency experts determined that one fighter aircraft platform could serve the USAF, Navy, and Marines and do air-to-air, air-to-ground, close air support, recon, and fast forward air control and the resulting pig of a plane didn't do any of them well. LOL
Thanks for the feedback. It sounds great for 'trates, meh on flowers. Disclosure, I have not tried a Switch but I have used a Peak for trates and do think there is a significant market, particularly among MMJ patients, for a very clean, highly integrated concentrate vaping solution that looks like crack pipe like that a full up oil rig.
Cheers