Pen Imag Plus

[fft]

Have you tried adding a little silicone tubing to the imag? This reduces the heat of the vapor

The vapor temp isn't a big enough deal for me to use tubing. I don't think I am overly sensitive to vapor temp, though. The other vapes I've been using recently have all been on the cooler side, so the Imag+ was just different in that regard. It has me bracing a bit for the GH, though, which supposedly also gets warm.

 

[PuffItUp]

Love the dog!! And the silicon...lol..I'm anxiously awaiting my imag...how much for the dog randy?

He handles our online chat, sorry not for sale :-P

 

[OF]

He handles our online chat, sorry not for sale :-P

Here I thought he was head of the complaint department.........

Show to go ya how a fellow can be off base?

Or maybe it was Personnel? I understand requests for raises are way down?

OF

 

[Phatguy]

Hi Everybody!

Thank you FC for supporting us, you have no idea how grateful we are for your support.

The Imag's sold out faster than we could of possibly expected. I still have some left, if they are marked as out of stock just shoot me an email randy@puffitup.com and we will hook you up. I want to make sure FC members get their vapes before anyone else does. We have a large order placed so hopefully this is the last time we sell out.

Just want to clarify that we have the ceramic version. This no longer includes the concentrate cup. If you want to dab in the imag, all natural cotton works wonders.



@Phatguy You are right about some of the errors in our description and we will get that fixed, most those were already corrected in our review of the product. We do the best we can to be honest and accurate but eventually I am going to make a mistake. Shut off time is 3 minutes, on my imag I get about 50 minutes of battery life. The heat up time on mine is about 30 seconds, Ill be happy to double check. If you see any other inaccuracies let us know and we will fix them. As far as false reviews, dummy websites, funding campaigns and affiliates go, we don't do any of that. We know the bribery game all too well, I get emails every single day asking for free stuff in return for favorable reviews, we never ever do this... ever.


-Randy

Thank you for correcting that misleading and false info (i will always go out of my way to hold a company acccountable for false info). Curious as to why you put up a 2 hr battery life and 5 min session considering you are in this business (honest mistake is not a good answer and those are major tech details that should be accurate BEFORE a listing goes live let alone well after the fact). Also 2 days ago your site did show out of stock as well which I am sure you can back up as well (i did take screen shots of everything) NOBODY backed me up and I was stating the truth!! Also I noticed your site allows me to move forward on qty 999 unit purchase of the Imag. Accurate stock levels would be great as an online retailer as well. I know the cost to get it shipped to you and I know your not making any money (maybe ~$5-10 if you purchase 100 or more) on these at $55 with free shipping. Good Luck. Everyone load up with that discount code ASAP!!!! Everything I stated was true from the false tech info, it did show out of stock a few days ago and it is clearly a loss/break even leader and that is all fact! Thank you yet again for correcting that fales and misleading info and thank you FC for giving me the forum of allowing me (to a certain extent) to let everyone know the facts (whether a lot of you like it or not!) :-)

 

[CarolKing]

I sometimes have a problem with a short air path and need an extended mouthpiece. I'm curious if the Imag is hot like the Pinnacle Pro, if anyone could comment that have both. I thought the PP was very hot and I frequently needed to use a WT.

I appreciate that we have vendors like PIU that we can rely on. They actually answer their phones and answer your emails promptly. If you have any questions you can call and ask them. Everything doesn't have to be aired on the thread and clutter it up.

 

[OF]

I sometimes have a problem with a short air path and need an extended mouthpiece. I'm curious if the Imag is hot like the Pinnacle Pro, if anyone could comment that have both.

I appreciate that we have vendors like PIU that we can rely on.

I don't find it so, at least not yet. Warm perhaps, but thus far for me not limiting. And I don't expect melting issues like with Pinnacle. The MP actually ties into the body, not the oven. The metal 'filter' plate screws into a metal insert in the MP. IMO a pretty solid design, although I worry some about the plastic locking tabs (in the body) wearing over time. Careful material selection and design/quality should put that to rest I hope.

It comes with two complete MP assemblies.

I fully agree about PIU. Randy's aces, I think the 'old hands' know it well and appreciate his white hat. I just hope the new guys don't take the attacks and nay saying too seriously and miss out.

OF

 

[Stu]

Thank you for correcting that misleading and false info (i will always go out of my way to hold a company acccountable for false info). Curious as to why you put up a 2 hr battery life and 5 min session considering you are in this business (honest mistake is not a good answer and those are major tech details that should be accurate BEFORE a listing goes live let alone well after the fact). Also 2 days ago your site did show out of stock as well which I am sure you can back up as well (i did take screen shots of everything) NOBODY backed me up and I was stating the truth!! Also I noticed your site allows me to move forward on qty 999 unit purchase of the Imag. Accurate stock levels would be great as an online retailer as well. I know the cost to get it shipped to you and I know your not making any money (maybe ~$5-10 if you purchase 100 or more) on these at $55 with free shipping. Good Luck. Everyone load up with that discount code ASAP!!!! Everything I stated was true from the false tech info, it did show out of stock a few days ago and it is clearly a loss/break even leader and that is all fact! Thank you yet again for correcting that fales and misleading info and thank you FC for giving me the forum of allowing me (to a certain extent) to let everyone know the facts (whether a lot of you like it or not!) :-)

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[Rob Allen]

I have had my IMAG plus for quite a while now. Not as good as my Solo, but it is good on the go.

Trying to find something smaller, no luck so far.

Just bought an Airis Viva. Horrible! It's going back. HOT, burns and still no vapor. Too bad, nice and small, and lightweight.

On my IMAG, I did punch holes in the screen, better flow. Also the mouthpiece would just fall off. A built onto the mouthpiece with clear tape extending onto the body. (Started with wrapping the tape backwards) so it is non sticky on both sides and just slides over the body and holds on. I'll post a picture later. A mouthpiece that holds would be much better.

 

[olivianewtonjohn]

$55! Man good to see vaporizers coming down in price and offering good performance. Can you even imagine the crap that was $50 a few years ago? This thing has some punch due to the high temps; kind of hits you different. One negative is I feel like its HUNGRY, like I have to use alot more material than my arizer air. Anyone else feel that way? Obviously for 55 this is a great deal, just an observation

 

[subway13029]

I should be able to comment more as mine with my free two day shipping for 55 will be here today.its funny because for the price of a defective vapium summit I have both the imag and flower mate mini and still have 75 to spare??unbelievable

 

[flotntoke]

My imag+ from PIU arrived yesterday with my regular mail around noon. Very impressive delivery time!! Had ordered Monday night and on my doorstep across the country Thursday @ noon!

May post more of a review after some real world stealthy, portable use, but some basics for now.

Well packaged from PIU for shipping (including cool note and smiley face on inside box). Don't want to spoil any surprises for others, but for such an inexpensive vape I was impressed by the professional packaging.

Was on my way out to run some errands when this came in, but had plans to stop by a friends later so took it with me. Threw it on his computer to charge while cooking it off. It reeked of robot farts! Was able to cook off while charging (not sure if this is optimal for battery life, but it worked). Somewhere in there I let it sit enough to cool and cleaned with everclear before continuing burnoffs. We were patient and waited about an hour for charging light to turn green before pulling it off and giving it a test run. Probably did 12 - 15 cycles on red. Just a tad of plastic stink still left, but impatience won out.

Loaded less than half a chamber and gave us both a nice buzz before was totally spent. ABV was very dark brown but no black specs. We both got a little more than we bargained for. This was supposed to be a quick test sesh because we both had shit to do before official party time. He was so impressed I was setting him up on PIU site with discount code so he could get his order in as quickly as possible! Notable for this guy. He uses his solo about 20% of the time, and whatever I bring by, but sticks with combustion in small increments for the most part.

My unit did not have the ceramic mouthpiece insert. Was pretty happy about that since I didn't want to have to decide whether to pull or modify it. It did come with 2 mouthpieces, unit itself, charging cable and tool set (tweezers, scoop/tamp tool and brush). And, of course a free 4 piece grinder from PIU. Ceramic chamber. Looks like copper around it. Light sequence is Green low, Blue medium, Red high.

Did a better chamber cleaning once I got home with ISO and about 10 more burnoffs. Robot farts now gone for the most part, and not perceptible with a load in. Loaded about 1/2 chamber of Hash Plant with pretty fine grind, but not powdered. Tamped that down with tool and sat down for testing. On mine, green was VERY light vapor and some taste. Blue is best for me with good taste and vapor production. Red is a little hot for my liking - both in vapor and heat of it - but was good for wiping out the load. Normally at home I would probably dump after blue. But, wanted to see how well red finished the load for use out in the world. Always a pain to keep track of ABV when out and about, and was glad to see red setting left very little so no worries with dump it where ever.

The imag+ works well! Not the greatest tasting vapor I've ever had, but not too bad. I'd put it on par with solo. Definitely seems to extract all the goodness and gets you there easily. Draw restriction isn't too bad, but found I had to take longer, slower draws to get the most from it. On solo where I'd take 8 - 10 second draw, think I was closer to 12 - 15 seconds with this. I haven't modified the stock screen at all, and one issue I found is that material gets stuck to it, blocking the airpath. Nothing a quick flick with a fingernail doesn't remove, but had to do this every 3 or 4 hits. Shaking closed unit doesn't clear this, but not hard to power through it.

Should be able to use in public just like it's a big e-cig, but would still be careful. Especially with Hash Plant loaded! Vapor doesn't smell like smoke, but would think this would raise a few eyebrows.

For $55? Glad to have this in the arsenal! Will be out and about doing summer shit this weekend, and looking forward to vaping in the open. Have been using VapMan in these situations lately, but always worried about getting caught popping around a corner or back out from one. imag+ should eliminate that.

 

[wolfJflywheel]

Just arrived from PIU. Quick shipping and a nice looking/feeling pen vape, especially for $55!

What's the consensus on how many burnoffs I need before it stops tasting like melting plastic?
Haven't actually loaded a screen yet, have done probably about 10 burnoffs on max and about halfway through I cleaned the mouthpiece and chamber with an iso soaked qtip. Still tastes pretty plastic-y. How long should I expect to wait until this thing is hittable?

 

[max]

What's the consensus on how many burnoffs I need before it stops tasting like melting plastic?

Just so nobody new to vaporizers gets scared off, there's no plastic in the vape that can melt with vaping temps.

How long should I expect to wait until this thing is hittable?

That probably depends on your particular taste buds, and keep in mind that there's likely to always be something besides a completely neutral taste when hitting it under temp and empty.

 

[subway13029]

Just got mine from piu yesterday and didn't get to check out til today and I did about 4 cycles a full temp to burnout any smell or taste and I usually find that it usually takes to run a load of your material through it to fully get rid of new vape smell..all items made of a certain material have a new smell to it..doesn't mean it's always harmful..so I tend to do a few full cycle heat ups and then go to town and I am super impressed by the 55 dollar vape..I got this and the fm mini in last week alone and am impressed with both..compare it to a broken summit I purchased last week and it was almost 200..so I'm impressed that they work and the results..clouds on the lowest setting on imag compare that with reviews of say the haze and no visible vapor sometimes on first two temps? I know I know it's not always about the visual but I know when I buy something and get no visual vapor I feel as tho I've been ripped off..lol..oh well considering I own a mighty, minivap,arizer air,lotus,daisy,lily,hammer,arizer vapman and a few others..these two budget vapes are super impressive..I guess expensive isn't always best way to go..

 

[flotntoke]

Just arrived from PIU. Quick shipping and a nice looking/feeling pen vape, especially for $55!

What's the consensus on how many burnoffs I need before it stops tasting like melting plastic?
Haven't actually loaded a screen yet, have done probably about 10 burnoffs on max and about halfway through I cleaned the mouthpiece and chamber with an iso soaked qtip. Still tastes pretty plastic-y. How long should I expect to wait until this thing is hittable?

I probably did about 25 with a short test sesh after about 15. When it wasn't too bad I loaded it half way and finished the load. Still a hint of robot fart when empty, on red, and my nose right to the chamber, but couldn't taste anything. After my second full load through it, it has no smell at all.

May help to know I seem very sensitive to smell of fresh electronics, so many users may not need to do as many burn offs.

 

[Shit Snacks]

I sometimes have a problem with a short air path and need an extended mouthpiece. I'm curious if the Imag is hot like the Pinnacle Pro, if anyone could comment that have both. I thought the PP was very hot and I frequently needed to use a WT.

I appreciate that we have vendors like PIU that we can rely on. They actually answer their phones and answer your emails promptly. If you have any questions you can call and ask them. Everything doesn't have to be aired on the thread and clutter it up.

From what I know about your tastes on the Air and Indica threads Carol, you will definitely want some water with this one Perhaps even on 374 once it gets going, at first its ok but it can dry out the throat a lot quickly. It's just such a short vapor path and hot ceramic conduction, very hot/harsh, just like xmax v2 pro, and Flowermate imo. All inhaling very close to the session conduction oven just gets super harsh I think, even my combuster friend, whom I gave my Imag+ ceramic carbon fiber, finds it very harsh but tolerable enough. He rigged it to his bong with silicone and a male to male adapter though, it really is a lot like pinacle in that way, but much better designed and supported (and priced!). The xmax/storm have new gong adapters which work really well, maybe Imag will come out with something similar, they were planning an Imag mini too...

Regarding burn offs, whenever you feel like its natural. A second opinion helps, sometimes it is vey persistent. You can see my earlier posts here and in other threads, every single unit has been different, sometimes takes forever, sometimes quick, and occasionally never...

 

[wolfJflywheel]

Just so nobody new to vaporizers gets scared off, there's no plastic in the vape that can melt with vaping temps.

That probably depends on your particular taste buds, and keep in mind that there's likely to always be something besides a completely neutral taste when hitting it under temp and empty.

Yeah, not trying to scare anyone off guys. It's a really solidly built, nice looking vape that I'm looking forward to putting to use. Part of the taste might just be that it's unseasoned. This is my first pen vape, so I'm new to the seasoning process. I don't recall it, but there was most likely a similar taste to my first vape until I coated the insides. And come to think of it there was a similar plastic-y electronic taste to my enano when I first started using it. Wasn't trying to imply melting plastic, should've been more clear, just that type of taste.

I probably did about 25 with a short test sesh after about 15. When it wasn't too bad I loaded it half way and finished the load. Still a hint of robot fart when empty, on red, and my nose right to the chamber, but couldn't taste anything. After my second full load through it, it has no smell at all.

May help to know I seem very sensitive to smell of fresh electronics, so many users may not need to do as many burn offs.

Yeah, I think I might be more sensitive to these types of tastes/smells as well. I'm going to go ahead and hit a couple chambers worth and keep my fingers crossed that it'll take care of the taste. My burn ins don't really seem to be doing much good at the moment, so I'll just hope that the taste subsides as the insides are coated.

 

[wolfJflywheel]

UPDATE: (feel free to merge my posts mods, I can't edit the last one for some reason)

Alright, it seems to be hitting pretty well now. I tried a test screen after my post yesterday, but still found the taste to be overwhelming. Luckily I had the idea to pack the chamber full of some of my vaped bud to season it that way. I repacked it as full as I could without hard packing it and ran it on max about 3 times, then repeated that process with 2 more full packs. I also blew a bit through the intake holes so I could coat the interior of the mouthpiece since that seemed to be a large factor in the taste. It's impressive how much vapor this thing puts out on max temp. Anyway, I hit a screen of fresh stuff last night after my seasoning experiments, and it was much tastier.

I'm very happy with this device as an affordable portable vape that is easily concealable. Obviously it can't replace the enano and I wouldn't recommend it as an everyday device, but that was never my intention. This thing is the perfect budget vape (at least when it's on sale) if conceal-ability and portability are your major concerns. Don't expect it to taste as clean as a log vape, but you can get it to taste pretty nice after a bit of seasoning. Mid temp (blue) seems to do a nice job of getting me toasty without getting overly popcorny.

Anyway, I'm rambling again. I recommend this pen if you can get it on sale (IMAG55) and I definitely recommend PIU as a vendor. He has exceptional service and quick shipping.

 

[flotntoke]

Couldn't agree more with @wolfJflywheel and others above. This thing has it's issues, but think it is great for what it is for the price. Used it out and about a good bit this weekend.

One thing I noticed to watch out for. When you turn it on and it is heating, it will start to smell. Not robot farts (once burn off is done), but of roasting herbs! Wasn't a big problem out in open air, but even heating on green gave a good bit of smell in the car, blue even more. It does roast well and goes through a load pretty quick. But don't forget with the oven it is roasting whether you're taking vapor or not, so stinking a bit and wasting vapor if you're not on it. Didn't have nerve to use it in the bar, tho I saw a few people with ecigs. I have used vape oil pens in similar situations, but with those you only have to worry about smell on exhale and don't think that smell is as incriminating.

It does use a good bit of material compared to my other current primary vapes (nano and VapMan), and maybe a little more than the solo. Still.... if stepping out of the bar for a quick top off, or out on the golf course (only chip & putt for me today, but imag+ was perfect!), and many other similar situations this is a good affordable piece. Today we were vaping every couple holes with families around (some as close as 10 yards) and didn't even get a raised eyebrow. My golf partner uses an e-cig, so we just acted like we had two! Easy to hide in plain sight with just a little breeze blowing.

If you're going to be reloading while you're out, be sure to bring at least the brush, stir/tamp tool and an easy way to load. I use these little 1/2 dram sized brown bottles and they were fine to line up and tap for easy loading. If you tamp down pretty firm the load seems to roast more evenly and will give more hits. Plus, you can fit a bunch in there so don't have to reload as often. When doing a dump and reload out and about, seems easier to do outside somewhere like sitting at a bench or something - but a pain in the ass in the car because of spillage and crumbs unless you have a work surface. It's not usually as easy as just stir and dump (like a solo or VapMan) because of depth of oven and stickiness due to oven roasting. Need the brush and a few tap outs to get it empty.

Still having a little trouble with load sticking to screen on bottom of mouthpiece and blocking airflow in use. After every heating cycle when it kicks off (usually a couple hits for two people), I open MP a little and just knock the blockage back into the oven chamber. Perfect? Not really, but not too difficult.

Needless to say, flavor drops off considerably after first 2 hits - but vapor production goes for many more and is still effective. Surprisingly effective!

 

[Kaptan]

Couldn't agree more with @wolfJflywheel and others above. This thing has it's issues, but think it is great for what it is for the price. Used it out and about a good bit this weekend.

One thing I noticed to watch out for. When you turn it on and it is heating, it will start to smell. Not robot farts (once burn off is done), but of roasting herbs! Wasn't a big problem out in open air, but even heating on green gave a good bit of smell in the car, blue even more. It does roast well and goes through a load pretty quick. But don't forget with the oven it is roasting whether you're taking vapor or not, so stinking a bit and wasting vapor if you're not on it. Didn't have nerve to use it in the bar, tho I saw a few people with ecigs. I have used vape oil pens in similar situations, but with those you only have to worry about smell on exhale and don't think that smell is as incriminating.

It does use a good bit of material compared to my other current primary vapes (nano and VapMan), and maybe a little more than the solo. Still.... if stepping out of the bar for a quick top off, or out on the golf course (only chip & putt for me today, but imag+ was perfect!), and many other similar situations this is a good affordable piece. Today we were vaping every couple holes with families around (some as close as 10 yards) and didn't even get a raised eyebrow. My golf partner uses an e-cig, so we just acted like we had two! Easy to hide in plain sight with just a little breeze blowing.

If you're going to be reloading while you're out, be sure to bring at least the brush, stir/tamp tool and an easy way to load. I use these little 1/2 dram sized brown bottles and they were fine to line up and tap for easy loading. If you tamp down pretty firm the load seems to roast more evenly and will give more hits. Plus, you can fit a bunch in there so don't have to reload as often. When doing a dump and reload out and about, seems easier to do outside somewhere like sitting at a bench or something - but a pain in the ass in the car because of spillage and crumbs unless you have a work surface. It's not usually as easy as just stir and dump (like a solo or VapMan) because of depth of oven and stickiness due to oven roasting. Need the brush and a few tap outs to get it empty.

Still having a little trouble with load sticking to screen on bottom of mouthpiece and blocking airflow in use. After every heating cycle when it kicks off (usually a couple hits for two people), I open MP a little and just knock the blockage back into the oven chamber. Perfect? Not really, but not too difficult.

Needless to say, flavor drops off considerably after first 2 hits - but vapor production goes for many more and is still effective. Surprisingly effective!

Try placing a solo sized screen on top of the herb to prevent the MP from clogging.

 

[Meach]

X2 on a screen on top..also after each cycle just pop off the mp immediately after your session and blow through it..gets a majority of the residue off the screen

 

[flotntoke]

Try placing a solo sized screen on top of the herb to prevent the MP from clogging.

Will be trying this tonight. Was going to do it over the weekend, but didn't have any solo screens where I thought I did.

Thanks for the tip!

 

[Rob Allen]

I bought the Hippie and got it today. I hoped it would be better than the Imag +, and it has interchangeable batteries. No go! After charging it up all night and being frustrated trying to get clouds out of it (and long warm up times) I put some used material back in the IMAG and wow, clouds like my Solo provides. I'm thinking of trying the Arizer Air, especially since you can have spare batteries, but I can't keep spending more money right now, and the Imag still impresses.

The Imag really is a very powerful portable, and it is quite small and stealth. And price is great!

 

[Wzfbaby7]

The hippie looks like the x-max rebrand but I'm in the same boat basically bro! I got no clouds at all and it took almost two minutes to get to 428 and it didn't even give me any clouds. The imag is a beast but the only thing about it is the mouthpiece becoming wonky overtime and needing to adjust the metal screen in order to get good airflow but after a while it just becomes a hassle.

 

[Rob Allen]

Ok, I think I can post pictures with Photobucket. Please don't laugh, but I spent 5 minutes with the mouthpiece and some tape (the first layer upside down) and turned the mouthpiece into one that stays on solidly! I know it looks bad, but that is because I have been using it like this for many months and haven't changed the tape yet! It is due. At one point I colored the tape with black magic marker but eventually it wore off.

Oh, and the material you see on the body is velcro. I have been doing this with all my devices for years. Makes them stick anywhere I want to stash them. (of course putting the opposite velcro material there)

http://s14.photobucket.com/user/Journeyrob/slideshow/Imag mod


Edit: You would be amazed at how easily the whole thing slides on and off of the body, but it is snug and stays on very securely once you slide it on. They should make a real modification for the mouthpiece with something similar. The screen problem and airflow haven't been an issue for me since day one when a punched a bunch of holes in it. I still have the second mouthpiece that came with the unit, but I've never used it.

Also, if you do try this with tape, make sure and cut the end of the tape barrel right before the air intake holes, otherwise you will be sucking very hard without much success.