ruint
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A few months ago I noticed my 5yrold volcano digit start to fall from temp before the 30m timer cut off.
The red actual temp starts falling despite the green set temp and the heater light still being on. Cycling the power restarts the heater.
It then started to need warmimg up to 95f for the heater to engage, despite the control light glowing as normal.
The temp needed to engage the heater has risen slowly since, in 10f incriments.
I now have to sitt the vape upside down on an oven rack over an electric stovetop, and it now need warming to 205f, and to be caught before dropping below about 240f to re-engage the heater with a power-cycle if it drops out.
I have improvised a heat shield with a hole in the middle to expose only the top of the heat block, which seems to have prevented the vape overheating so far.
When the heater finally engages, it makes a series of scraping noises, like something is dragging while turning.
I worry that over 205f I will be risking damage to the electronics.
Is it worth buying tools to attempt cleaning/repair, or is the cash best saved for my next vape?
Gutted that the hybrid has moved to delicate capacitive buttons and a fragile bowl surround.
I hope for a volcano with buttons in the 'new range 'of s&b vapes due out this year*, otherwise I'll probably buy a classic.
*canopy growth earnings call: https://www.canopygrowth.com/invest...t-quarter-fiscal-year-2024-financial-results/
screncap: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/556207781406048266/1138955571463209059/image.png
[EDTED COMMENT]
Someone showed interest in the new s&b vapes so this is everything i've sleuthed:
From the Canopy Growth Q2 investor briefing:
I suspect the various vapes shown in the patent are factory mules built to describe one feature each from a single production vape range.
So possibly a 510 threaded DRM oil pen with on-wire temp control that -also- accepts coin-like pressed flower tablets, and can combine them to deliver an accurate, measured dose.
IE: you could get a100 dose 5mg/dose cart, and 20 5-dose flavour discs in various strains, and press whatever flavour disk in with the mouthpiece you want, wasting only cheap hemp if you just take all the terps in one hit.
Whole thing looks WILD.
Patent: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/pat...60/publication/US2021401061A1?q=US20210401061
The red actual temp starts falling despite the green set temp and the heater light still being on. Cycling the power restarts the heater.
It then started to need warmimg up to 95f for the heater to engage, despite the control light glowing as normal.
The temp needed to engage the heater has risen slowly since, in 10f incriments.
I now have to sitt the vape upside down on an oven rack over an electric stovetop, and it now need warming to 205f, and to be caught before dropping below about 240f to re-engage the heater with a power-cycle if it drops out.
I have improvised a heat shield with a hole in the middle to expose only the top of the heat block, which seems to have prevented the vape overheating so far.
When the heater finally engages, it makes a series of scraping noises, like something is dragging while turning.
I worry that over 205f I will be risking damage to the electronics.
Is it worth buying tools to attempt cleaning/repair, or is the cash best saved for my next vape?
Gutted that the hybrid has moved to delicate capacitive buttons and a fragile bowl surround.
I hope for a volcano with buttons in the 'new range 'of s&b vapes due out this year*, otherwise I'll probably buy a classic.
*canopy growth earnings call: https://www.canopygrowth.com/invest...t-quarter-fiscal-year-2024-financial-results/
screncap: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/556207781406048266/1138955571463209059/image.png
[EDTED COMMENT]
Someone showed interest in the new s&b vapes so this is everything i've sleuthed:
From the Canopy Growth Q2 investor briefing:
They have a recent patent that covers various configurations of a 510 DRM oilpen, and what looks like a blue meanie jamjar convection plate stick vape designed to take special pressed flower coins that are held against the hot plate when the easy valve-like mouthpiece is pushed in, and ejected from a full circular section of the vape body that rolls out on a spiral guide.
I suspect the various vapes shown in the patent are factory mules built to describe one feature each from a single production vape range.
So possibly a 510 threaded DRM oil pen with on-wire temp control that -also- accepts coin-like pressed flower tablets, and can combine them to deliver an accurate, measured dose.
IE: you could get a100 dose 5mg/dose cart, and 20 5-dose flavour discs in various strains, and press whatever flavour disk in with the mouthpiece you want, wasting only cheap hemp if you just take all the terps in one hit.
Whole thing looks WILD.
Patent: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/pat...60/publication/US2021401061A1?q=US20210401061
If you want to thank me, help with my vape
