I actually fiddled with my settings again. Lowered my TCR a lot, all the way down to 120. Resistance still locked at .38, temp still 420, but wattage at 56W. I don't have a grinder so what I've been doing is packing a gigantic, completely unbroken nug into the Splinter bowl (weighs anywhere from .8 to .15). I preheat for 5 seconds, then slow draw for maybe 10 seconds. This evaporates a lot of the water content in the bud and makes it a lot crispier. I take the nug out of the basket and crush it into a fine powder with my fingers and repack the bowl with this tamping down lightly. I tamp the very edges of the bowl down harder to make a dome shape with the bud where it sticks out more at the center. This gets more even avb on the circumference of the bowl. I preheat for 5 and slow draw for a second hit, as it milks up I increase draw speed but don't overload the coil. I cache the bowl in one hit. Pretty potent. I'm liking this. I think I'll settle with these settings for a little while, the avb is a good color, still not perfect airflow for one draw knockouts, though, there's light stuff at the edges sometimes. The Splinter begs to be stirred at least once, ime. Still, I don't feel I'm wasting much, and it's very newb friendly now, imo. At lower wattages in Wattage mode you really need to know what you're doing to get a proper hit, imo, you can't pass it to a friend and say, "Hit this." Proper TC requires little explanation, perhaps just mention to draw slowly.
the fact is that RBT does not officially support use of TC modes, they instruct customers to use wattage mode. Many people have been savvy enough to set their splinter up with a TC mode and have had good success, but it’s not the standard and mostly all units work fine in wattage settings. Seems like you’re having a good time tampering with your settings so don’t worry about whether it aligns with everyone else’s use....because dang these things are so customizable for each user.
