I am not too worried about the performance with concentrates, I can fit coils in the coil cup that I can barely make on my goon or Pi2 clone with the added benefit of being surrounded in ceramic and specialized top down airflow.
a few people have talked to me about hybrid heating. It certainly could be attempted with a coil that wrapped around the body of the herb pod and also made a stove top under the herb pod. I would be curious how well it would stand up to constant swapping of chambers.
I know I'm mentioning a lot of potential accessories, but the amount of pieces/add ons we create and offer depend on how profitable the business becomes and if the demand justifies the cost to R&D and produce. I would expect to take the approach of doing limited runs of more niche pieces and if there was a demand for them to be restocked we would weigh our options then. I like the idea of having a ever growing system with lots of user choice, but progressively phase out older pieces so that the parts list doesn't become overwhelming. Still way too early to talk about the expanded product line but it will probably be play by ear.
On demand convection and TC with enough power to rip hard without overwhelming the heater is the goal. We want the end result of ModPod dialed in to be able to hand to a friend and they can just hold the button and pull hard and get a good rip. no pulsing, no preheating, no inhale technique. I feel with dual battery mods with high wattage limits and low ohm coils for more precise TC can accomplish this end goal.
Ok, I'm starting to get a better idea of your intent here, especially with the last paragraph.
The more I read now, the less I see how conventional coil building skills will come into play here? This seems more modular with pre-made coils, kind of like the HVT sai or source orbs (except convection of course)
I can see you pulling a hybrid heater sort of like the crafty chamber, all you need is to build some electrical contacts on the pod so they can conduct current with their own heater coils, as well as holding the dry herbs or concentrates and passing airflow through them.
but that might be un-neccessarily complex
Do you mean the heating coil will serve both purposes (flowers&CC) while loading wax directly on the coil...? if yes, I can see a taste issue coming from wax residue on the coil burning while vaping flowers...
Yes... you won't want to put concentrates directly on some convection coils. That's what the pods are for, it seems.
But where is the mouthpiece / vapor cooling part? With convection you need quite some length to be barely sufficient. The Firewood 2.1 stock mouthpiece was completely unusable to me for instance. The MVT and Milaana stems are the bare minimum for me and they are quite long. And I do get some throat discomfort from time to time, even if I consider myself very tolerant compared to most users.
If the mod is not mounted side by side then you end up with a silly looking aspect ratio. This was the case with the Project Eraser mounted on top of my VTC mini. People kept telling me it was weird looking, one even said it looked like a gaz stove igniter... Someone coined the "pistol look" earlier.
I can see that a relatively short vapor path can cause some harshness issues here, but maybe Dan has some more tricks up his sleeve with a longer internal vapor path or some other tricks? If not, the 14 / 18mm WPA adapter tip could provide more cooling potential, but it would be nice to be able to comfortably use this future atty just dry, off the mouthpiece too
It's not that he doesn't want, it's just that SS mesh heaters don't work in TC (not enough of a resistance change, dynamics are different with all these tiny circuits in parallel)
Hmm, ok I don't know much about the splinter. When vapes lack TC i tend to look away. I do have some experience with SS mesh throwing off my TC operation though
Also, what you guys are calling SBS mods, I know as RT (recessed tank) mods, same thing right? With the current size of this barely bigger than a DT V2 herb atty, I don't think it's gonna look so big on a regular mod?
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Here is our new addition to the design, a modular cooling chamber for both herb and concentrate use. We are still finalizing the details so I can't say much about it, but I am confident we have addressed the concerns people had concerning vapor harshness.
Nice...this part will be key? What materials are you thinking for this part? Ceramic, quartz or glass might be the most desirable and feasible?
Is this above the chamber that holds the vaping materials, or does this part hold it? Does it have top or bottom airflow?
There won't be any current flowing through this cooler?
that's more into tubo territory. And for me, I don't taste the SS316 on the tubo, I actually get the slightest taste(smell) of wood sometimes 
