VapingYogi
Pranayama; of a sort.
The Aroma-3 grinder by old mate is great for the Tempest, I find, its a medium only but, love the bearing and threadless-ness.
The Tempest - a month later....
I realized that since I have had the Tempest, I have actually been using more herb than usual... it has to do with more than one thing, I have a surgery January that I am trying to keep it together for before Xmas, but also I have actually - actively - been trying to make up scenarios to see how far I can push the Tempest... anything I can think of really... its been fun (and a required distraction).
I keep reading people saying they never combust - or don't combust that often - I pretty much combust every day - I do think I might be putting more bowls through each day than most people, and I do many bowls in a row - not trying to be competitive, I am just stuck in place at times and I don't have the luxury of waiting for my device to cool down. Before the Tempest, I used to have multiple devices lined up - packed - ready to be used - and I would use them all one after another, then pack them all, and do it again. If it was just dynavaps for example I would have at least 5 out at a time, pack them all, then use them one after the other...
However, since I got the beta device on the 14th November, the Tempest won the reach test each time even missing missing clicks/vi....
I went from using 5 devices, to trying to make the beta Tempest do >5 bowls in a row and without a way to tell the temperature, at some stage in that process I end up combusting, its mostly scorched bowls (my kingdom for some click/discs and a calibrated indicator ) for the most part I would be successful, get my 5 bowls or so and just enjoy puffing away while talking to my partner or watching something. Its reliable enough that I choose to have the 5 bowls in the Tempest over 2 bowls in my desktop system because of the efficiency and the experience.... AND I can do it on the couch near my partner.
My point really, is that the beta Tempest, without the temperature control features has become my most used device.
When I can take my hot Tempest (70c-100c) and hot swap the herbs and manage to reheat it without combusting repeatedly, the few devices that haven't already been packed away, that are just hanging around in the living room for when I can't use the Tempest - are going the be put into the display case with everything else.
What kills me is that days before I found out the Tempest existed I bought some expensive dynavap stuff and it arrived in the mail on the 2nd of November... the Tempest as I said arrived on the 14th of November... I still haven't removed the 1/2 of the order, including a dynavap stem, tip, cap and FMJ from the package it was sent to me in...
I don't believe there will ever be one device to rule them all and I will always have desktop systems, a concentrate system, a battery portable and a manual portable... but at times there is something that stands out... and at the moment, and for the last month, even in the face of all the purchases that came before it, The Tempest is winning the reach test again and again and again.
Other than needing a wooden sleave because the Titanium gets to hot to hold when doing as many bowls as I do in a sitting, and the times I visit the MAD Heaters Tempest Accessories collection, I am not finding myself looking and what's "coming soon" in the vape shops I follow like I usually would.
EDIT: may have gone overboard as I have been writting this for an hour so feel free to "report it" and get it deleted if inappropriate...
The Tempest - a month later....
I realized that since I have had the Tempest, I have actually been using more herb than usual... it has to do with more than one thing, I have a surgery January that I am trying to keep it together for before Xmas, but also I have actually - actively - been trying to make up scenarios to see how far I can push the Tempest... anything I can think of really... its been fun (and a required distraction).
I keep reading people saying they never combust - or don't combust that often - I pretty much combust every day - I do think I might be putting more bowls through each day than most people, and I do many bowls in a row - not trying to be competitive, I am just stuck in place at times and I don't have the luxury of waiting for my device to cool down. Before the Tempest, I used to have multiple devices lined up - packed - ready to be used - and I would use them all one after another, then pack them all, and do it again. If it was just dynavaps for example I would have at least 5 out at a time, pack them all, then use them one after the other...
However, since I got the beta device on the 14th November, the Tempest won the reach test each time even missing missing clicks/vi....
I went from using 5 devices, to trying to make the beta Tempest do >5 bowls in a row and without a way to tell the temperature, at some stage in that process I end up combusting, its mostly scorched bowls (my kingdom for some click/discs and a calibrated indicator ) for the most part I would be successful, get my 5 bowls or so and just enjoy puffing away while talking to my partner or watching something. Its reliable enough that I choose to have the 5 bowls in the Tempest over 2 bowls in my desktop system because of the efficiency and the experience.... AND I can do it on the couch near my partner.
My point really, is that the beta Tempest, without the temperature control features has become my most used device.
When I can take my hot Tempest (70c-100c) and hot swap the herbs and manage to reheat it without combusting repeatedly, the few devices that haven't already been packed away, that are just hanging around in the living room for when I can't use the Tempest - are going the be put into the display case with everything else.
What kills me is that days before I found out the Tempest existed I bought some expensive dynavap stuff and it arrived in the mail on the 2nd of November... the Tempest as I said arrived on the 14th of November... I still haven't removed the 1/2 of the order, including a dynavap stem, tip, cap and FMJ from the package it was sent to me in...
I don't believe there will ever be one device to rule them all and I will always have desktop systems, a concentrate system, a battery portable and a manual portable... but at times there is something that stands out... and at the moment, and for the last month, even in the face of all the purchases that came before it, The Tempest is winning the reach test again and again and again.
Other than needing a wooden sleave because the Titanium gets to hot to hold when doing as many bowls as I do in a sitting, and the times I visit the MAD Heaters Tempest Accessories collection, I am not finding myself looking and what's "coming soon" in the vape shops I follow like I usually would.
EDIT: may have gone overboard as I have been writting this for an hour so feel free to "report it" and get it deleted if inappropriate...
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