I love all Mad Heaters products and I'm sure the Tempest will be no exception. I have plenty of vapes, but I'll be getting a Tempest as soon as it's finally released. The various reviews are all interesting, although some comments have left me wondering. And my own comments have been misinterpreted. Explaining explanations is tedious, but I hate misunderstanding.
@RedZep
Yes, I know you think the Anvil is "conduction heavy" and I haven't suggested otherwise (although I don't agree and have explained why). And I thought that "speedy" and "head spinning" were "heady" effects, but I have clearly misunderstood. If those apparently cerebral effects are not related to a heady signature then I suppose it can only be potency, but when the Sticky Brick, Anvil and Tempest are all potent vapes I don't understand why the Tempest always feels grounded while the other vapes can induce spinning out. Perhaps it is the speed of extraction, but you have done one hit extractions with the Tempest without such problems, so I don't understand your experience (and perhaps I shouldn't try). Everyone's physiology is different, and the way in which a device is used can make quite a difference, which complicates the subjective assessment of any signature. But I don't think that vape signatures operate in anything like the quantum realm where all possible outcomes are true. And an objective assessment of degrees of roasting is certainly possible by direct observation rather than subjective feelings.
@Ann_evans96
I certainly don't claim that effects are the same regardless of heating method, except in the case of riding the line, where everything is extracted to the verge of combustion. And your criticism misrepresents what I have said. Everything is everything, and if the effects are different then the extraction must be different and something is being lost or left behind. Is there really a different effect from an almost charred RTL hit from an Anvil, a Tinymight, or any other vape? If there is a difference that everyone apparently knows, then I don't notice it, and it seems to defy rational explanation. The taste might be different on the way to such a complete extraction, but the final effect is the same.
And I listed different varieties of herb, different temperatures, different modes of heating, and different vapes, as all causing different flavours and feelings (i.e. different signatures), attributing the cause of all such signature variations to different proportions of active compounds. I know that convection and conduction feel different, but also that different temperatures in both heating scenarios can make just as much difference to the feeling. I'm not sure where the logic is missing.
@RxPlorer
You did say that vapes with conduction feel more body stoney than full convection vapes using the same flower, as opposed to the more heady stone of the Tempest. I could have chosen another example of this truism, but yours was near at hand. And I assumed the general equations: conduction = more body stone, and convection = more heady stone. But there are other contributions to the signature and the feelings themselves are not exclusively related to the manner of heating. This seems to be true, and I'm not sure of your disagreement.
And what was I on about? Well, my last post was trying to explain one paragraph in a previous longer post considering the nature of signatures. RedZep seemed to object, and my "clarification" drew a stronger objection. As explained above, I had wrongly assumed that head spinning was a heady effect (perhaps a failure of grammatical logic). But I stand by the other seven paragraphs, which shouldn't be controversial. And I think there was also confusion over the equivalence of terms. Convection might imply a heady effect, but a heady effect needn't mean convection; and likewise for conduction and body effects.
Dynavap is basically conduction, but there's a difference between low temperature (more heady) and high temperature (more body) effects. And Tinymight is basically convection and its heady effects always make me smile, but a light roast in the Anvil does the same.
In the Anvil thread I have considered the degree of conduction, which varies with heating, timing and airflow. And with a light roast it is mostly convection, but a dark roast (from examining the herb after heating without inhaling) can have up to half of the herb lightly roasted by conduction.
And Brenyo has explained that the Tempest also has some conduction, ensuring an even roast, but some comments seem to dismiss that fact. And the potential to add more conduction by different heating has been discussed. I don't doubt that the Tempest works mainly by convection, but exactly how much conduction contributes to the heating and the actual bowl temperature remain unknown, and if no one wants to try the suggested experiment (removing convection from the equation) I'll have to wait until I get a Tempest to see for myself.
This response took my addled old brain quite a while (and many Anvil hits) to formulate, not wanting to cause more confusion, and the thread is racing ahead, but I hope that any misunderstanding is now understood.