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btka

btka

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Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on my own modular ball-heater vaporizer for over a year now, focused on top performance for small loads (0.05–0.2 g), pure flavor, big vapor clouds and easy handling. After lots of prototypes and testing, my current version is working great!

Before going into production, I want to test one (maybe final) iteration of the heater. So, it’ll probably be another 1–3 months until it’s fully ready.
But I’d love to start sharing info now and maybe some first photos and Videos soon, so you can follow the process and give feedback!

If you want to stay up to date or get on the (no-commitment) waiting list, just DM me.

I really appreciate your thoughts, feedback, and questions!

Stay tuned and hopefully see you soon Beyond the clouds!
 
btka

btka

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I really appreciate all your interest!
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Cheebsy said:
I'm also always interested when it's from our community... What materials are you using? Injector or diffuser?
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I’ve invested a lot of time in carefully selecting the right materials and have learned a great deal along the way. I honestly didn’t expect the process to become this complex and time-consuming. I’ll share more about that later.

The Herbbowl is made from 316L medical-grade stainless steel. In the future, I plan to offer a glass bowl option as well.

The heating element is also made from stainless steel - I’ll share more specific details about it soon, but I’d like to keep it under wraps for now. Eventually, I’m planning to integrate a quartz glass insert into the heating element, similar to what the Terpchaser Club Vape uses, you will Bar able to insert it in the heating Element. This vape will be very modular I can Tell for now, but I will tell more in the Future about this.

This vaporizer was designed to be quickly heated via induction (Wand, Flare, etc.). Personally, I’m not a big fan of torching metal or getting it to a glowing-hot state, as this leads to the formation of oxides, which I consider potentially harmful to health.

My first prototype was actually an injector (I’ll show pictures of it later), but I wasn’t happy with its performance - so it eventually evolved into a diffusion-style vape.

I have a question for you. During my research, I came across the idea that if there’s too much conduction going all the way down to the bottom of the bowl, it can negatively affect the flavor, and possibly even lead to inhaling more fine particles.

What do you think about that? Would you prefer if the bottom third or quarter of the bowl stays a bit lighter in color? Or do you prefer the cannabis to be evenly dark brown all the way to the bottom of the bowl?

BTW This vaporizer will operate with approximately 70–80% pure convection heat and 20–30% conduction.

This vape will be made in Austria (EU), do Not know if this is important Information.

Here are photos of the first Injection Style vapes (Last Summer). They were intended to work with a glass bowl 14mm or 14/18 glass adapter as a herbbowl, and they worked well, but I wanted to make it even better:


 
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Cheebsy

Cheebsy

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btka said:
I have a question for you. During my research, I came across the idea that if there’s too much conduction going all the way down to the bottom of the bowl, it can negatively affect the flavor, and possibly even lead to inhaling more fine particles.

What do you think about that? Would you prefer if the bottom third or quarter of the bowl stays a bit lighter in color? Or do you prefer the cannabis to be evenly dark brown all the way to the bottom of the bowl?
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I agree that conduction doesn't usually lead to great taste, other than the all glass ones that is. I'm not sure how it effects particles though...

I don't stir, I don't go for dark brown avb. I find that i can fully extract herb by convection and never scorch the load by using an injector in the right temp range. My duff is usually a bright amber colour. I bet this is true for diffuser styles too but it's probably a little more effort to dial in. I don't have any diffuser style vapes yet so take this with a pinch of salt.
 
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I don't stir, I don't go for dark brown avb. I find that i can fully extract herb by convection and never scorch the load by using an injector in the right temp range. My duff is usually a bright amber colour. I bet this is true for diffuser styles too but it's probably a little more effort to dial in. I don't have any diffuser style vapes yet so take this with a pinch of salt.
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Even though the hottest zone is just below the balls (where dust can form), this dust has to pass through the herb bed and gets partially trapped,so the herb acts as a natural filter.

Dust generated at the bottom of the bowl (especially near the sidewalls if conduction reaches all the way down) goes straight into the vapor path without filtration and is more likely to be inhaled.
 
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