I believe he meant darkrom...he is the cloud chaser not me. I am a med user who just wants meds not clouds to cause people to look and smell.
OF you mentioned a number of times the heat of the unit. Does the mouth piece get hot as well? Is the air path very short that you might need to lengthen it?
Yes, Darkrom for sure. I don't understand anyone confusing you for him, you don't look at all alike....
Good point about the MP heat, let's start there? There's some fun news from the quick test I just ran as well, but since you asked.....
Yes, as I said before it gets harder and harder to 'pucker up' if you run it long times like I am. The MP itself is OK, it's the cover around it that tries to burn your lips.....while you try not to chip a tooth as you dutifully test on. Or at least it was distracting. So I put a one inch long piece of Silicone tube (500F rated) on the MP itself. Half inch OD thin wall, it grabs on the straight part of the MP just fine and makes it easy to find and use the business end without looking (something I'm prone to do while involved with supervising the garden don't you know....and testing, of course). That's why I can tell you the time of the session, basically how I'm hitting, but not the count. So yes, I'm using a very short piece of tube and will recommend folks try it in the end I think.
Now to some of the other fun discoveries. My third bowl (first 20 minutes, second 16) started out slower which I initially wrote off to the different bud involved. I ran out of the Og Kush I had ground (lots of testing) and when I went to get another 1/8 to use it wasn't where I thought....but some Goo I got the other day and intended to try got ground instead. I know, bad protocol and all, but I didn't see much harm and it would serve two purposes and all so in it went. When ground in it went to Cera fresh from the grinder (unlike before which 'aged' a couple days post grind). So it was longer and starting slower, half expected. At a bit over 8 minutes into it, 44 total, I decided to try a fresh battery (always good advice, IMO). That one went in reading 3.6 Voilts and came out reading 3.4 (five or so minutes later), but of course those are unloaded values and we know it's going to 'sag' under load. Anyway, instant (well a minute maybe) very radical change. After an improved (and improving as it went) first hit I got behind the next, following the taste more than the heat (this guy can be deceptive there) enjoying the sudden change.....enjoyed it too much, ignoring the little voices screaming at me to ease up and get some Oxygen going instead, I kept up the attention on the little mini test going on until it was too late. I paid for it with a coughing fit that took me right back to Mexican brick weed from my youth. I must have been quite a sight! Easily the worse 'turkey hit' in a long time (something I try to avoid....). I nearly dropped the little jewel.
Based on the exhaust I blew out, by my standards
huge clouds are experimentally possible (although not really recommended this way.....) in the Laboratory. No, make that the garden.
Make no mistake, this was not combustion by any measure. Yes I checked the load, it's still fairly fresh in fact. I also took one more modest hit after my vision returned and the ringing (and echo) stopped. Perhaps a minute, probably a bit more, after my near death experience in the name of science. Nice thing about conduction vapes, it didn't run away, it just quietly cooled down a bit and waited for me to catch up. The next 'normal' hit was light and sweet, no hint of popcorn. It had simply overpowered me (probably no big feat in the big world), catching me by surprise.
Now experimental data ain't worth squat if it's not repeatable, but I'm convinced there's some gold in them thar hills. Not a lot, probably only under narrow conditions (which of course we'll try to identify and optimize), but more vapor than I can use happened. "Use"? No, make that 'hold'. An almost scary amount given how much went in so easily. Not enough I think for a mid level cloud chaser to get too worked up over, but more than I expected. Be kind of fun finding the answer there, if I don't kill myself in the process......
In other news, I got the word from TV, my 10 Watt core is ready, I'm planning on getting it a bit later. This means not only trying to optimize the power level for production units, but it also lets me try bubble hash since I'll have a backup core to keep the test going if I have an accident. And the oil cart is coming. Lots of different bases to cover, but we're getting there I think.
Finally a word about that battery life.....it was still working at
3/4 of an hour of basically continuous run (3 stages actually). About what the specs say, and a HUGE improvement. Some guys would have run 2 or 3 bowls to my one. Maybe even most would. That's a lot of battery life. Maybe even enough for DR? Dare we hope? That's rough data from one run with a prototype heater but it's certainly good news IMO.
More later when I know more. Thanks for suffering though a long post, hope you found something to interest (or at least amuse) you.
OF
I just did a nice dab, and now I can't figure it out. not sure if it's me, or the bho 
