AceTK
Radiant Thoughtforms
Hi all this is my first post here. I came across this website shortly after I decided my lungs had endured enough and I should either quit my beloved herb or find another solution.... a vape. Now i'd had a low quality vape before in the past (blue meanie) and didn't get on with at all. But then at the time I was still smoking tobacco too, but also the only time I found it worked was when it got too hot and burned the herb but then that's what the bong was for. In the end I left it round a friends house and forgot about it.
Anyhoo some time later about a month ago I got my first real working vape. Now I know i'm going to get told off for this but I got a really cheap chinese one from ebay. Now to be honest there were a few things I noticed about it that were questionable but being a very technical person I checked all the electronics, construction, operational efficiency and found everything to be fine with only a few tweaks needed. Firstly I cut out some holes at the bottom as the only way for the air to get in seemed to be through the excess hole space from the power chord, then I also noticed that the top got too hot so to fix that I fitted a zalman heatpipe hard drive cooler to the top and now it just dissipates the heat in a controlled manner. Lastly the angle of the unit meant every time i stopped sucking the whip pipe the herb would fall onto the element. This was easily fixed by raising the back side up so that it was totally level. In this state i've found it to be most reliable and i've enjoyed many many days of good vaping so far. Which brings me to the reason I posted here lol.
Now given herbage is very hard to come by round here I want to be as efficient as I can when vaping. Now at the moment i'm switching between two methods.
1. I load the ground herb in whip, press down slightly into disc then place against element and toke at 180c for 3 seconds then remove from element follow the 3 second toke through with cool air to cool the herb and whip head just as you run out of breath to inhale. Then place whip down ready for next hit.
2. I load the ground herb in whip, press down slightly into disc then place on element at 132c and leave it there while I toke tokes as needed. Then when even slow tokes wont gimme any I just turn up to 180c and finish off.
Now so far i've noticed that option 1 seems to be best as i'm concerned option 2 somehow wastes herb. Sometimes il go downstairs to do something then come back 20 mins later to find that nearly all the vapor is gone. Im not sure how it could be leaking though as I seal the mouthpiece nossle with little rubber bung. Inside the whip i imagine the thc staying above the heat of the element but perhaps the vapor is somehow getting back down through the element somehow. So yeah has anyone got any ideas how I can improve efficiency? Also if you could share your experiences with whip leakage if any that would be great too.
Anyhoo some time later about a month ago I got my first real working vape. Now I know i'm going to get told off for this but I got a really cheap chinese one from ebay. Now to be honest there were a few things I noticed about it that were questionable but being a very technical person I checked all the electronics, construction, operational efficiency and found everything to be fine with only a few tweaks needed. Firstly I cut out some holes at the bottom as the only way for the air to get in seemed to be through the excess hole space from the power chord, then I also noticed that the top got too hot so to fix that I fitted a zalman heatpipe hard drive cooler to the top and now it just dissipates the heat in a controlled manner. Lastly the angle of the unit meant every time i stopped sucking the whip pipe the herb would fall onto the element. This was easily fixed by raising the back side up so that it was totally level. In this state i've found it to be most reliable and i've enjoyed many many days of good vaping so far. Which brings me to the reason I posted here lol.
Now given herbage is very hard to come by round here I want to be as efficient as I can when vaping. Now at the moment i'm switching between two methods.
1. I load the ground herb in whip, press down slightly into disc then place against element and toke at 180c for 3 seconds then remove from element follow the 3 second toke through with cool air to cool the herb and whip head just as you run out of breath to inhale. Then place whip down ready for next hit.
2. I load the ground herb in whip, press down slightly into disc then place on element at 132c and leave it there while I toke tokes as needed. Then when even slow tokes wont gimme any I just turn up to 180c and finish off.
Now so far i've noticed that option 1 seems to be best as i'm concerned option 2 somehow wastes herb. Sometimes il go downstairs to do something then come back 20 mins later to find that nearly all the vapor is gone. Im not sure how it could be leaking though as I seal the mouthpiece nossle with little rubber bung. Inside the whip i imagine the thc staying above the heat of the element but perhaps the vapor is somehow getting back down through the element somehow. So yeah has anyone got any ideas how I can improve efficiency? Also if you could share your experiences with whip leakage if any that would be great too.