OK, armed with the tracking number I 'sprung' my Bender today and finally got a chance to try it. My initial take is much like the others, an interesting piece that will take some getting to know.
It's big, really big. Using the included grinder it easily swallowed up .75 gram. To me, that's a lot. Six MFLB trenches, 25 or 30 so PD stems. Something like 135 mg of THC. Several sessions at least. For sure smaller loads should be explored.....
Loaded this way it's slow. 40 seconds to useful vapor, nearly a minute until it was producing much. However, it continued to produce modest but useful levels for a LONG time after that. 30 seconds or more, several hits not just the initial one. I don't recall others mentioning this? Maybe I'm not pushing it hard enough yet, it's still in the 'very flavorful' early stages, but 3 or so such runs (heats back up much faster, maybe 20 seconds or so before cutting power and letting it coast while I enjoyed the hits) and objective testing is done for a while.......
This is not the mode for the cloud chasers in the group, but it has great potential IMO.
Right now I find it most like Vapman (much larger, of course) in that you add heat bringing the load up until you 'get there' and can cut the power and easily get a hit (or a few even) on retained energy. Given the long time constant I see no value in pushing it further at this point in time. Doing so could only lead to bud cooking away in there while I studied the insides of my eyelids.
Time to put the batteries back on charge, they were only 'mostly charged' before starting.
An interesting contraption for sure. Will definitely be back for more lessons later.....not to mention I've still got half a gram of top shelf bud in there.....
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