Any suggestions for the PID?
Disorderly Conduction 3D or Auber RDK 200 / RDK 300 would all be great choices.
I'm personally still running my trusty MaxVapor controller.
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Just to briefly address the electronics, as I'm not currently an authorized reseller for any of the electronic components, I'm not bundling with PID controllers right now as there's not much value I can add there. I am going to offer an option with a new 16MM coil installed as a lot of people want that "plug and play" experience; but overall the electronics aren't much of an opportunity for me unless I could become a reseller. I'm just buying them at retail price to add on as a convenience.
I've been following vaporizer technology for a while now and am genuinely interested and happy to see new developments being made to advance the technologies. Regarding your choice on the materials, I'm curious if setting the heater coil closer to the target temperature would work well to counter the overly efficient heat transfer from the housing material used? Would the 'fly-by-wire' of those XLR coils be able to maintain say, ~450F (and by proxy the ruby beads), so that the bowl materials are heated up at around 420F? Asking with much respect and interest.
If I understand your question correctly, I think you're essentially asking if a more conductive housing actually translates to lower operating temperatures - in my experience, no. And that's counter productive to what we might expect - it seems reasonable that a more conductive housing, that heats more evenly, would be more efficient and run at lower temperatures.
However I believe what happens is - as you get away from the more insulative materials like what the 1.x series has been made from, the more conductive housings by nature will always want to transfer more heat, whether that's into the bowl, or a stand, or even just the surrounding environment.
When this conduction transfer does occur, the glass bowl itself takes a lot of energy to heat up, which is why it can pull a lot of heat from some of these other systems. That's why these wood "injector" bowls have popped up, as wood is very insulative (~10% conductive as glass) and can help overcome losses from more conductive housings. The issue with wooden bowls is they don't make for neutral tasting vapor in my experience.