I keep reading reports of Legacy's outperforming i/o's? I haven't kept up with the thread diligently enough, but is this your experience too?
I have experience with both cooler, normal, and hotter legacy's, and normal was always my preferred.... the cooler ones obviously didn't cut it, and the hotter (what I feel the present i/o is with the extra temp) wasn't usable to to bad flavour.
With that said, even though it's been some years since i've sold my legacy's, I still have two in my account that the buyer's never contacted me for warranties about lol.
If anyone bought a GH from me, and need warranty, please PM me! lol
Some legacies were indeed unicorns. I also have one on my account since 2016 that I've never heard back about. I agree with the bounds of spectrum describing the legacy units, and I have a small suspicion such a thing exists again with the io. My HT that I was using, just had a beaker of io mains powered goodness, the HT is normal. Hits 210 at temp 5 and that's really the only setting I use it at, maxed out with room for more to be honest.
It definitely isn't up to par with the io which probably out perfroms it on temp 1, but the ABV does look fairly similar at the end of the day. I'd say I have a normal io, 180-230 is on the label, and really I'm probably getting closer to the 222 which I once used to set my Arizer EQ at. "all the two's" is a good temp, but once you go 237, you arrive at what I'm all about. That is beyond what a pen will probably ever intentionally deliver.
The io does not sublimate, and so there is room for improvement in terms of potency. I reckon the crackle you know of only occurs with some legacies and was a good cause for the amount of problems, amongst several other common faults. Some units surely cooked themselves to death. The initial pre-order I made consisted of three units, one was an absolute champ and lasted right up until it got heavier use a couple of years down the line. That thing was too hot at T5 but it still wouldn't combust. But it was hyper close to smouldering or whatever, it wasn't that nice. But dialled in at 4.x, the thing absolutely white walled bongs. Now, I have seen this level of density using CBD flower (high quality and potent with cannabinoids) mixed with CBD isolate using the io, but with general lousy flower, the io could not compete with that bronze legacy in terms of potency and cloud output.
The io has managed to find its way in-between a normal io and that craziness that really is pushing the limits of the form factor way too far and can not be used natively at all. Like seriously, the bronze unit could not be used natively, it was dangerous and impossible. But on bongs it was magic.
The io is much better to use natively because of the increased airflow and response from the heater. It's much easier to get solid sips from.
On glass it is no slouch and does a job I'm satisfied with. I haven't used the sublimator for a while now and I'm not really missing it, though it does out perform this pen and any hopper by a mile and a half.
But the pen is just super pleasant like a beer instead of a shot. Or maybe a strong wine. It doesn't really whitewall my new 10" beaker, but it tries and fogs it up proper multiple times per chamber, and each hit packs a punch. Not like a freight train like a sub hit or an actual aussie cone, but an effective and smooth and tasty rip nonetheless.
I cleaned this yesterday and it has a healthy dose of oil building up already. It delivers a good enough amount of power and what's left behind looks the goods too.
From what I've read some people are getting faster extraction and darker ABV, but the normal I think I'm seeing I'm happy enough with.
I'll probably get an SS io after trading in my broken Ti at some point, cashing in my battery charger pre-order (ha) and whatever else they still owe me.
Roll the dice and see if I get something drastically different. 65W is still a lot of go considering what I've seen 45W do, which is beyond the limit.
So, I guess in a sense the legacy is really more or less exactly the same thing as the io. But the io is made with a lot of needed changes that were learned of the hard way, and hopefully they will last years and years like the unicorns that are out there.
Some patterns of usage are not kind on hoppers and that's what I'm replicating with the io, and so far it's a pure blast without any issue. But 77 days is far from a good test period, so I best continue.
and only high temperature player
A new record maybe? I hope it's worth the wait also.