I am brand new to vaping as of tomorrow when I go buy this one lol!! It seems to be top of the line and I want something that's going to last. How fine do I bust the weed? Does it matter how wet or dry? What is the difference in the settings 1,2 and 3? And most importantly, can you smell weed?! Like I can just smoke this wherever and people won't smell weed when I exhale lol!? These are probably crazy questions to you pros lol!! I smoke about 10 grams a week, is using the vape going to get me high using less?? Thanks so much in advance to whoever answers my slew of questions
First off, howdy. Welcome to the FC Forum.
Sad to say, I think you have a lot in front of you. Some of what you ask can be simply answered, like 'keep it dry and medium ground' until you get up to speed. To moist and you'll fail completely early on.
That's a lot of herb to smoke, how potent is it. The bowl on this (like most vapes) is pretty small, low grade weed doesn't have enough THC in a bowlfull for most. At that level I suspect you among them.
All else equal you should use 1/3 or maybe 1/4 of the herb you do now since you're no longer destroying THC with combustion. But you don't 'get high' in the same way. Part of that is the direct result of all the nasty junk in smoke. It tends to make you dizzy and effect you otherwise which your mind combines into its' expectations. You need to break that link, which might take a day or two or a week (I don't know of anyone taking more than 2, does anyone?). That has to be with absolutely no combustion. NO SMOKING, not even a single hit. That can reset the 'unlearn clock', and even I'm told can make it take longer each time (as your mind holds out for the relief it knows is coming.....). But it's possible, everyone here has done it (most likely, nobody started out vaping?).
The smell is dramatically reduced, that's 'reduced' not eliminated. Worse is you're going to become basically immune to it. Think about cigarette smokers who don't understand that they stink? Don't depend on this being some magic 'get out of jail free' card. It's more discrete but if it's a bust due caution needs consideration?
ESV is a great vape for sure, but it's very 'fiddly'. Very hard to learn and you've got a LOT to learn about it. Perhaps the hardest to 'drive' out there, it's for sure the hardest of all the vapes I own/have used, and that's a pretty big pile really. The 3 'levels' you ask about are 'soft', you have to program them via the USB port with 'an app'. You have software to load and figure out just to get started. And there's often some adjustment of the heater element (spiral wire under the bowl), modifying screens and such. Please go back and skim some of the posts in this thread as we collectively worked on these things, there is no simple, fixed fix that always works. You are definitely part of the process.
Battery life is limited since it's true convection. Quite short until you learn to use it wisely. Entirely possible to use a full charge with no (or very little) useful vapor to show for it. It's capable of first rate flavor, among the best. But it needs to be clean to do that and it's not that easy to clean relative to other vapes.
To be frank of all the vapes I know and use it's probably the last I'd recommend to a newbie. No offense meant, but IMO you've roped a tough bronc to learn to ride on.
My best advice is to keep your new vape in the box for a while, you've got a LOT of reading to do. Both about this vape and the process.
Have you laid down money for this? Do you have other options? Might be the 11th hour but IMO you might want to reconsider?
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