Hello Everybody.
First and foremost, thank you all for being so supportive and understanding. You guys really remind of why I love what I do and why I love this industry.
Changes and why :
1. The first change we have made is widening up the walls of the space where the heat intake glass is stored.
Reasoning for this is to give a little more room so that you can twist the top and bottom pieces apart, to partially disconnect the magnets, before fully pulling the 2 pieces separate.
It just makes it easier to access your vaporizing chamber and heat intake from " standby " mode.
2. The second change made is we have added another " air-inlet " to the heat path, making 3 air inlets in total. An air inlet on each side and one in the center . The additional air inlet adds more ambient air to the heat path.
There are a few reasons that lead us to adding a 3rd air inlet; to sum it up into one word I would say that word is 'FLEXIBILITY'.
Quick, reliable, clouds....and some flexibility.
The way Lily is currently, I think works great. My instructions state to only cover the screen with enough herbs to cover it so you can operate Lily as intended. I made those the instructions fully knowing that a lot of people are not going to follow them (myself included). But if you have that screen just covered and all our other instructions are followed, you have your self a vaporizer that works.
There are a plethora of herbs out there with variations of different fat contents, structures, dankness levels, etc. Due to these variances we adapt and either add more or less herbage to our vaporizing chambers. We also adapt our heat level, grinding method, and drawing techniques due to all the differences in herbs.
When you over-load your Lily with herb, due to the fact that the airflow is more restricted and the herb it self is closer to the heat source, it raises the chances of scorching and ultimately can lead to the possibility of combustion. Even though I have not ever reached combustion myself, I have gotten some scorching that was not intentional. Yes I did have my heat high and my vaporizing chamber was more than half way filled.
That 3rd air inlet cools down the temperature. So with out COVERING any of the air inlets, you begin vaporizing with a lower vaporizing temperature, depending on your torch level and draw rate/duration.
Now speaking of COVERING air inlets. Yes, you can have them covered/plugged while drawing. What this action does is the opposite of adding more air inlets; it raises the heat temperature. You can block a side air inlet or both the side and center air inlet for higher heat settings. From my testing and trials, the "high heat" mode with 1 or 2 air inlets covered is necessary for concentrates.
With the addition of the 3rd air inlet and the ability to cover the air inlets for different heat settings, Lily becomes more flexible.
Thanks guys.