Well, I was waiting for someone else to offer their opinion first as I don't really trust my own much as I'm super fussy/perfectionist/ too lazy to heatsoak precisely and I didn't have much green to test with it (by payday a friend had a medical emergency and I lent it to her to stop her being a retard and combusting while having serious lung issues) but here it goes:
As an all glass solution I feel like this is a flawed step in the right direction, but when you use the basket screen mod things get much better, my opinions/feelings on it are:
- The glass puck restricts air flow too much.
- The Sloped sides of the bowl combined with a heatsoak mean whenever I load herb in, a visible vapour trail (and not a faint one) is released immediately, I find it a race to drop the injector in to stop that... (I will admit I am easily triggered by wasted/escaped vapor but when your loading 0.025-0.03g, every bit counts)
- Without a mesh screen the trichomes end up blowing down the sides of the puck where they don't get hot enough to vape.
- Fine grind has bits that will make there way down the side of the puck and remain light yellow/green (Which I find incredibly triggering).
- The glass puck, with the tiny amount of contact it has with the bowl sides doesn't really get hot, this causes it to be a reclaim trap.
- The puck, which is a reclaim trap, when tapping to empty the bowl of ABV will fly out kamakaze style every time (atleast for me), hit the ABV scattering it and skid off somewhere... getting bits stuck to it and making it gross to pick up and put back in with your fingers each time as it gets sticky (which really bugs me).
- Uneven air flow: When my puck sits in the bowl, it doesn't sit straight and tilts to one side due to a slight uneven placement of the glass "dots" which are added to the top to give clearance gaps for air to pass. (Though i'm unsure if thats a quality control issue or just... the best case scenario for this type of design?)
Couple of terrible quality pics just about showing the tilt of the puck in the bowl and the all dark brown but with a bit of light yellow/greeny colour on the side where the airflow is blocked:
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Micro-dose bowl with Arizer basket screen mod:
- The basket screen mod I tried out after hating the glass puck (Which was mentioned earlier by someone else) changes the game totally, takes it from an expensive waste of money to my primary bowl of choice, literally never bothered to use the 18MM bowl again.
- Really fine grind lets you load about 0.025-0.03g and get a nice cloud in 1 pull and change.
- With screen mod I haven't found the need to stir more than 3 times even when vaping 0.1g..
(And to put that in comparison, I just hit 0.1g out of my NV Flowerpot w/SH and stirred 5-7 times due to the, couple of millimeters airflow deadzone around the edge of the adjusta-bowl and bits getting stuck in the groove the screen loosely fits into... though i'll admit I am majorly triggered by seeing light yellow/green flecks in my ABV, even tiny bits)
- Areas for improvement would be find a way to ease draw restriction an tiny amount more (Like another 10% more airflow on top of what it has would be the perfect sweet spot for me atleast) and Herborizer to sell their own properly shaped basket screens for it.
As a summary, I like the Herbo + micro bowl + basket screen combo so much I have literally stopped enjoying using my NV FP w/ SH completely as a daily driver and am counting down the days till my friend gets her own vape and I can have it back.
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