Hi - First time posting. I'm having trouble with concentrates on my Vapexhale. Similar to issues
@GameEnders posted on earlier this year, I have had great experience with concentrates on my Omicron V4 and my Crafty (though the Crafty gets so messy that I don't often use it with concentrates), but I cannot seem to figure out how to properly use the Evo for concentrates. I almost always get a harsh, burnt flavor. I've tried multiple techniques suggested on here, including turning the unit off as soon as the bamboo turns red, using low temps, ensuring my concentrate is smaller than a grain of rice, etc. and can't seem to figure it out. I'm clearly doing something wrong as I know others have had nice experiences with the Evo and concentrates. The unit itself works fine with flower, FYI. I'm using glass VXNs rather than quartz. Any help would be much appreciated.
I've gotten there, but the technique does take a little work to figure out. A lot of the recommendations are to go high temp, but I'm not good enough to do that without a lot of burnt taste. I have a new technique for kicking off the hit based on some random youtube I saw, here are the steps with some of my own additions added.
1. Warm up the VXL to about 11:15-11:30 (I don't think for dabs its a ton of difference whether you let it heat soak or not)
2. Put the vxnail in the vxl and put your finger on the top, wait about 7-8 seconds and near the end of that give it some little shakes back in forth while its still in the EVO
3. When you take your finger off immediately put the hydratube on, I find if you leave the nail exposed to the open air it will heat up really quick so give you a burnt taste faster, holding my finger off and immediately covering with the HT seems to work well with my technique and getting the hit on that sweet spot. Do not DRAW immediately!
4. After a few seconds of the hydratube sitting on the EVO while holding both parts, move the VXL back and forth at an angle, like 45 degrees back and forth a few times. You'll notice that if you don't sometimes the hit starts really weak at this temperature and you don't get to the sweet spot of the hit for awhile. I think the reason is your wax hasn't pooled evenly across the bottom so it vaporizes slowly. The little tip and shakes get the material pooled across the bottom and the hit starts a lot faster even though the temp is low. Makes a HUGE difference.
5. Start your slightly slower than normal draw like you'd normally do. DO NOT REMOVE THE HYDRATUBE UNTIL YOU CLEAR THE LAST HIT. I put in maybe a 1.5-2 grain of rice size hit and using this method I will get 2-4 gigantic hits with one dab. Try not to take too long between hits, the material is getting hotter and hotter so this will increase the burnt taste. If you take off the HT between hits the material gets really hot as well and you get burnt hits. I leave the HT on the whole time until the very end. This was the piece that always made the dabs suck if I put in too much wax, not removing the HT helped a lot.
Also the hits are big, so if you take too big of one and start coughing for awhile your dab is cooking. Try to make the hits something you can take, hold for a second or two, breath out and jump right back in until you get all the goodies.
6. Clear on the last hit to get the vapor out of your HT. Do NOT keep drawing until their is no vapor. The moment my vapor gets light and wispy I clear my HT.
So thats my attempt to explain the process. From the time I drop the nail in and cover it with my finger, shake, put on HT, turn the whole thing at an angle a couple times and start to hit it is probably 12-15 seconds. If you take too long on this you may get a burnt hit as well.
All this probably wouldn't be as necessary, but I like to take the big dabs and this method works for me. Doing it this way gives me really big hits in a row which is so awesome, the VXL makes so much vapor from concentrates.
Hope it helps! If anyone else has some great new tips I'd love to hear it as well.
