Soo, had my test kit for a week and a bit, wanted to finally join the Yay sayers in saying this thing rocks
In brief, and repeating many other posters:
Test kit working well, VI pretty smooth, the click discs work ok but very early, must be about 1 on the VI. Ball screen seems solid, not taken if off but loosened it and re-tightened. Mesh screens working in both bowl positions
Build quality is Quality with a capital Q, just supremely well machined, all fits together so nicely, the little indents on the bottom of bowl, the way the heat shield clicks into place, excellent, I feel like Private Pyle lovingly slotting his M14 back together
The Visual Indicator is just a game changer, the ability to stick it in the wand and watch it to get precisely the setting you want is amazing, especially for re-heating a bowl again. Renders click discs almost obsolete in many ways. Not that I reheat many bowls now, no need
Vapour is tremendous, just keeps giving and giving, does require a bit more dialling in than I thought, even a slight change of depth in the wand makes a big difference, its very easy to get a really dark roast/just right side of combustion, I think as the heat in the weed/bowl increases with each draw. But pretty much perfect for a one heat, multiple draw extraction to a nice brown AVB. Long time joint smoker and this is definitely hitting the spot dyna & dani were not.
Prefer using it on half bowl setting so far, probably because it means I can use it more! But still smacks on half bowl setting, and might be my imagination but seems to keep the mesh screen a bit cleaner as well.
It gets hot! Hotter than I was expecting, was showing it to a mate last night so did 4 bowls in quick succession and was almost too hot to touch at the bowl end of the stem. It never transfers to the bottom of the stem however so always cool to hold there. I have a heat sink I got for the dynavap armoured cap which fits the Tempest nicely so using that to store/cool it, looks wonderfully cyberpunk as well.
So all in all the first thing in quite some time that is actually living up to the hype.
Im definitely getting a smell with the wand, worse on higher heat settings. Will be another one waiting on the MH induction heater, a plug in version appeals already, as good as the wand is.
Think im preferring the direct tube on bypass so far but not found a bad setting
Cant wait to get a wooden stem, both to see how handles the heat and because as beautiful as it is in titanium, wooden stems just looks classier.
Anyone any idea if accessories will be available before the main release?
Thank you
@Brenyo!