BabyFacedFinster
Anything worth doing, is worth overdoing.
Everyone probably has their own ritual to get the results they want.
I agree that a good firm pack is important. I use the tamp side of my little metal scoop to press the pack down into a flattened puck.
At 320F, I will hold the button down for about 5 seconds before taking puffs, but not to produce clouds. It usually takes at least 10 sec of pressing to warm my unit up enough to produce clouds. However, for those that love to savor all the flavors offered, I get the best flavor in time the unit is heating up. As it heats to temp, you get all these wonderful terp flavors that get kinda lost or overpowered by the caramel and roasty flavors that come with higher temp vaping.
Once I start getting some vapor, I only press while drawing and pause the button in-between. You can usually get a lesser second hit before pressing and holding for the next hit. At first, I do constant cigar puffs to get those flavors, but the vapor producing hits are long steady draws.
One thing I find a bit annoying is, if you are doing the press hit and release method, you must get in a rhythm. Once you release the button, you cannot press again and activate until the unit gives you the "end of heating" hepatic buzz vvvvvppp. And then one additional second before repressing to activate. If you try to press immediately after the vvvvvppp it won't activate, you need to wait that additional latent second. Maybe it's just my unit?
After the 3-4th steady draw, it gets too roasted and I dump without the need to raise the temps. Even if there is more medicine in there, the taste is not pleasant to me.
I love it, but it is a ritual when you have some time. Otherwise I'll use the TM2 when I need to hit it and be done. To me, the FW9 is a slow heat up vape, so I hope the next version has a session mode of some kind so you don't need to keep holding the button down.
I agree that a good firm pack is important. I use the tamp side of my little metal scoop to press the pack down into a flattened puck.
At 320F, I will hold the button down for about 5 seconds before taking puffs, but not to produce clouds. It usually takes at least 10 sec of pressing to warm my unit up enough to produce clouds. However, for those that love to savor all the flavors offered, I get the best flavor in time the unit is heating up. As it heats to temp, you get all these wonderful terp flavors that get kinda lost or overpowered by the caramel and roasty flavors that come with higher temp vaping.
Once I start getting some vapor, I only press while drawing and pause the button in-between. You can usually get a lesser second hit before pressing and holding for the next hit. At first, I do constant cigar puffs to get those flavors, but the vapor producing hits are long steady draws.
One thing I find a bit annoying is, if you are doing the press hit and release method, you must get in a rhythm. Once you release the button, you cannot press again and activate until the unit gives you the "end of heating" hepatic buzz vvvvvppp. And then one additional second before repressing to activate. If you try to press immediately after the vvvvvppp it won't activate, you need to wait that additional latent second. Maybe it's just my unit?
After the 3-4th steady draw, it gets too roasted and I dump without the need to raise the temps. Even if there is more medicine in there, the taste is not pleasant to me.
I love it, but it is a ritual when you have some time. Otherwise I'll use the TM2 when I need to hit it and be done. To me, the FW9 is a slow heat up vape, so I hope the next version has a session mode of some kind so you don't need to keep holding the button down.
