What are you changing it for? Just for the concentrate levels?
Obviously the Concentrate level is necessary for non-flower material. It's also useful, as is High, for complete extraction. Sometimes I'm bumping it up to High to get an extra hit or two. Occasionally I use Medium for material that's particularly dry or tightly packed, though I still end up bumping up to Med-High in those cases.
Will some of the lower levels extend the battery life? Or would you use up more battery by having/wanting to draw longer on the lower temps.
Theoretically it should save battery life. You probably wouldn't end up drawing longer on lower settings till at least the back half of the bowl.
My may concern is the batteries themselves. Only time will tell, but if they degrade to rapidly as we've seen in the past at $35 a pop I know I won't be a happy camper!
And batteries degrading is not covered under the warranty and they are proprietary only to FF.
Exactly. We don't have enough real-world usage data to know yet. The battery I've been using appears to be in the same shape as when I first got it (and it wasn't "new" when they sent it to me). But I've only been using it for about 60 days so far, so it's early days.
There's a lot of flexibility with the FF2, relative to FF1. Again I think only personal use will reveal how useful (or not) you find the enhanced feature set.
If I can re-frame this to add a little perspective...when I was first contacted by FF about the 2, the first features I heard about were 1. smaller, lighter; 2. much improved basic functions and ease of use; 3. doubled battery life; 4. elimination of the screen; 5. elimination of the port assembly thingy on the lid; 6. elimination of the toggle switch. If they had stopped there, I would have declared this a much improved feature set, solving most of the problems (on paper anyway). That they continued to add "multiple heat levels" seemed like gravy to me. So any limitation on this function (specifically the app-only bit, which, to be clear.
I flagged with FF immediately as something that would make some users unhappy vis the whole Crafty/Mighty dichotomy) seemed minor to me because I felt like the heat level feature wasn't really the most exciting improvement.
Or to put it more simply: if you handed the FF2 to an FF1 user, and never told them about the heat level features, they'd still be blown away by the massive improvements in form and function (and maintenance). So I never got all that hung up on the app bit, even though I knew it was an issue. I've yet to read or hear from anyone who's used one that they simply cannot deal with it because of the app. I'm sure we
will hear that, eventually, but I don't think it's going to be a huge % of users who feel this way. Once they use it, anyway.