I tried a Sublimator and a Showerhead head to head. If you preheat the bowl and the cap of the Flowerpot, use the 14 mm post, use the carb cap (I used the og SS Showercap) and inhale fast enough there is no difference in performance i could appreciate. Effects were the same with the herbs totally spent and both did produce vapor instantaneously. We set temperatures manually to get the best results out of each one individually so they both had different temperature settings. If any of you thinks one unit should outperform the other one and has a suggestion i will go and try it in my friends house for the sake of science hehe
good to know. It seems like it'd do the trick should I ever lose the ability to sub, and the FP is even a bit more versatile with low temps and glass bowls on offer. fun stuff.
If I got it right after every hit this device piles up some residue that’s basically Cannabis concentrate. Is it true? Is it true for all the models?
It's not from every hit, but it accumulates very quickly.
I recently cleaned my gear, and last night I simmered the glass carb adapter used with the sub in a saucepan with milk, after scraping a good amount of dabs out too. I should get some picks when I build up some more with the now fresh set up.
It's so satisfying as it just droops and oozes out oil.
I guess I've been vaping heavily these past weeks, so the sub has been getting a decent workout.
It really does produce an amazing amount of very usable reclaim. Sublimate has allowed me to intorduce people to dabs, and to enjoy quality dabs myself. I don't have access or easy means to get good oil, so how the sublimator produces it on tap is one extremely lovely feature.
I have both units, The flowerpot vrod, and showerhead, and the sublimator v4 enail and apollo. I find the sublimator does more than the flowerpot on performnce and effects. The sublimator actually takes the vapor thats extracted and passes that vapor through a mass of metal thats super hot and vaporizes the vapor essentially. This cannot be done by just heating up herb chamber for flowerpot.
Theres a spot in the atomizer that vaporizes then another spot below that reheats the vapor. Fractioning weed, then vapor
Pretty much this. The difference I've always assumed between FP and Sub would be like using the Sub before it's taken the 20 mins to properly heat soak. You get some nice convection hits that leave a little to desire before 20 mins, it's like using an ordinary vape, albeit a really good one.
The instant dense white clouds only come when the whole contraption is in thermal equilibrium.
So as such, it's not so much re-vaping the vapour, it is just forcing the reaction over a greater space and time frame whilst controlling the local pressure and flow velocity as well as generating hot air vortices. Sublimate is a fractional distillate and the reason it forms at such a rate/quantity is because of the dynamics of the reaction. No other vape has a herb chamber mid heater and all this means is the rate of reaction is genuinely instantaneous once properly pre-heated.
The Sublimator is beyond vaporisation, yeah you can get amazing hits with many wonderful heater devices, but the Sub is scientific apparatus for extraction, and it does it perfectly.
Beyond just having the herb placed within two large masses at target temps, the Sub utilises all the fluid dynamic tricks to optimise extraction.
"The Bernoulli effect occurs in a Venturi shaped duct shaped to maintain attached flow. Heat-transfer efficiency is improved by restriction of the heat transfer to a small portion of the Venturi in which the flow temperature, velocity, pressure gradient and the Nusselt effect enhance heat transfer."
Many vapes emulate the theories the Sublimator has mastered. But nothing is better.
It's a pity the state the company is in, but at least there are some decent alternatives out there.
I very much appreciate the sub, but for the most part the FlowerPot shouldn't be so discernably dissimilar.
R - Sublimator apparatus' w/out water filtration seems to work the best especially if you find a way to cool the vapor. However, both heaters seem to be very capable of delivering a similar experince but the VRod is just so much more versatile. 
