Max gave a lot of good advice, but there's more. Your range is too small. Do some tests. Start at 160 and blow bags at every 10 degrees up to 240. (I know it's hard work but hang in there!) Each temperature yields something different. The stone you get with the thin cool vape at 160 is (for me anyway) a lot different from the one I get with the thick vapour at 240. You just need to find the temperature that grabs you. You'll love it once you're locked in.MariAndJuana said:I have tried many settings (200-220) but haven't been getting as nicely baked as I was on the bong.
I came here, however, to post about my Extreme v3 glass heater cover. Now, my v3 sits on a table and is almost never moved. It has never been knocked over. I've never had glass stick, and since I got my current one, the cyclone bowl has actually been slightly loose.
Some time ago now (we vapourists have trouble nailing down exact times but we're talking at least two months) I picked up the v3 to wipe the table because a lot of brown powder had collected underneath the base. I was a bit pissed that I immediately picked up a glass splinter, but I couldn't see anything broken so I just forgot about it. (We vapourists find it easy to forget stuff.) The v3 seemed to be working fine.
As time passed (we vapourists are aware of time passing, it's just not easy to tell how much of it has gone by) I did notice that it was getting harder to draw on the whip. I cleaned everything and it did improve the draw a bit, but I had the funny feeling it just wasn't as good as it used to be. (We vapourists get all sorts of funny feelings.)
Then last week I lifted the cyclone bowl up and was horrified that most of the glass heater cover came up with it. I have no idea how it got broken, but I vaguely know when now. (We vapourists are quite familiar with vagueness.) I'm guessing that when it shattered, there were a few splinters but it took until now to separate into two pieces. For those of you who haven't seen one, the heater cover is mostly wrapped in some kind of material so that the glass is pretty much held in place even if it's shattered.
The covering also provides a partial tube for the airflow, but some air passes through it. This explains why my v3 kept working, just not as effectively. It also explains why I could feel airflow from the base when the fan was on. I had enough of a tube to create a usable airflow, but the hole made it really inefficient. That glass splinter obviously was an artifact of the shattering and I should have paid attention.
I just replaced the heater cover, which is not too hard to do yourself except the damned heater cover screen is hard to get into place. When you slide the cover down over the heater element, the fit is so snug the heater element pushes out the screen. It is better to remove the screen and then put it back after the cover is in position. This requires patience (we vapourists can concentrate really hard when sufficiently motivated) but once I got the screen on my v3 was back to the original easy draw that I remember.
Well, that I would remember if I could.
I post this here as a warning to you all, but I know you vapourists. You'll forget.