is there any performance or visual vapor difference if i load the same amount in a MINI ELB vs using a normal ELB?
Haven't been able to dial in on this personally. I find that I get the same medicated effect using less flower in the MiniELB VS the regular ELB. Could be placebo, could be better extraction? I found that stuff got darker in the regular ELB vs the MiniELB, yet didn't seem to be producing any more vapor/medicine. IE, I think the MiniELB may get out the meds better, while extracting less crap? could just be placebo, who knows. My only point in coming up with the Mini bowl was for ease of use, loading, and compact "one hit" size. Anything extra is just a bonus!
So whats up theres a mini elb????
Nothing official...I came up with the
MiniELB as an answer to one hit bowls with less mess, as well as an alternative to my "
Two Cap" method, for those wanting a lower clearance bowl for concentrates, etc. to use in pieces who's female 18mm joints tapered too small causing the Two Capped bowl to hit the glass.
I had a quick question regarding a possible difference between the Cloud & the EVO.
(Feel free to ignore if the VXC team is busy fulfilling orders!)
I remember reading in the VXC thread many months back, from non-official VXC sources, that when you pull extra-hard on the cloud, the heater starts generating higher-than-normal heat to compensate?
The posters mentioned starting off a rip by drawing very hard, then slowing down to a more gradual pull once the heater "kicked into gear".
Was this ever a real feature?
And if so, is it also present in the EVO?
Yes and no. The Cloud will always heat when needed to maintain temp, but will heat more aggressively when an increase in temp is called for. Ie, if one causes the Cloud to drop below its set temp, it will heat faster until it gets back. This can be triggered by changing the units set temp, or making the unit get cooler than it's current set temp.
If one pulls hard enough, they can start to cool down the bamboo, and when the temp sensors notice this, they tell the Cloud to heat more...more than the nominal heating that goes on once up to temp; it calls for it to ramp up a bit to compensate for the "cool down" you are causing. So, once you have got the Cloud to think it needs to heat up more, one can slow down there inhale, in effect, preventing the fresh air from cooling down the bamboo as it was doing prior. Doing so, you have essentially tricked the Cloud into thinking it needs to heat more, and then you let it do so, while taking your regular hit.
IMO, if one wants a little extra heat from where you're at, bump the temp knob up and hit it as usual. No sense in tricking the Cloud into thinking it needs to heat hotter when you could just tell it to be hotter.
So to answer your question, no the heater doesn't create higher than normal heat, it just
A good analogy for this, would be your home heat. One could always turn the thermostat up to raise the temp. However, you could also turn on a fan real quick and open a window, allowing you to cool down the house before the heater can compensate. This would cause the heater to kick back on and heat up, as the house is now cooler than it was previously. But, you've then asked the heater to do two things...heat up to the temp it was already at, and then hope it will heat a little more and get hotter. Where as you could have left it be, and told it to heat up a little more in the first place by raising the thermostat.
So to answer your question, no it wasn't a "feature" it was the main funciton of the heater! It was just people being silly and manipulating it to do what it's already designed to do, in a more complicated way. If you want thicker hits, bump up the temp! Don't trick the unit into thinking it's not up to temp, and make it heat when it really doesn't need to. No, it won't cause any strain on the heater, etc...but when you could just set it where you want, and hit it as designed, why would you want to set it just below temp, and do this weird "pull fast, then slow" technique to get the Clouds you want??
