The lotus is way smoother ime, i get far bigger hits with it (true i can get hits as big with the vapman too, but not without burning my throat), the flavour lasts very long in the lotus and is gone very quickly in the vapman (taste is very important to me - i take pride in my hazes that flower up to 16 weeks and are cured for months). I find it easier to control the vaping temperature with the lotus too, but that may come down to having more practice with it. Lotus allows me to take one hit and put it down again.
to sum it up: with the lotus i can get desktop vape like hits anywhere i want, with the vapman it's always a compromise for me
You make an interesting point with using them outdoors, when it was cold outside i had some troubles getting the lotus to perform as i'm used to - didn't test the vapman in the same environment though.
I don't want to hate on the vapman - i really wanted to like it. But it just doesn't do it for me, that's why i posted on the thread - to add my perspective for new users who need to decide between the two
Mainly i think i put them in different categories because of the difference between convection and conduction...
I was debating between a Lotus and a vapman way back when and ended up going with the vapman because it seemed much smaller (the Lotus was like a pipe), but the tipping point for me was that I didn't like to have to head and draw at the same time. I understand that this may be both a plus-point and a minus at the same time, but I don't like to have to do that.
I do not own a Lotus and have not tried one, so I will not even speculate as to which is better.
I have a hunch that Lotus vs vapman can be very similar to Mac vs PC, Canon vs Nikon, etc - almost like religion... but I also think that there may another big factor: which one you tried first.
Have you noticed what happens wiith Live vs Studio recorded songs? -- If you listened to the studio version first, you get used to it and when you listen to the Live version you don't like it (and vice versa)?
No one version is better than the other... It's the same song, but you got used to one version first, so the other version sounds kinda weird.
I'm willing to bet that if I'd bought the Lotus first, the vapman would seem weird to me at first, and I wouldn't give it enough time and effort simply because it would be weird.
I had been using iPhone and iPad for years until they came up with the iPhone 6. THey dissapointed me so badly with that version that I completely converted to Android and now I can't stand iOS devices anymore... But I have to tell you, it was NOT an easy switch. The first night, I couldn't even sleep because I was so lost in the new environment, I didn't think I could ever get used to it. But I stuck with with and in a few days I felt like I'd been using the Android phone forever.
I think the Lotus and the vapman are two similar, but at the same time different animals and the things that one person may not like about one, the other will love, and the other way around.
Also, I remember a post on this thread by someone who had bout a vapman, tried it a couple of times, didn't like it and shelved it. Then (if I remember correctly), a year or more later, he read some noewer posts on this thread, tried it again and fell in love with it.
I'm not saying that everyone will love the vapman, but I'm saying that it's an eay vape to drop prematurely because the person doesn't give it enough time to really master it.
Same as with Mac and Windows, iOS and Android, pick whatever floats yor boat.
@NorVape,
How do you folks purge the lighters?
Every two weeks or more, I simply poke the little tube on the bottom with a Bamboo Skewer to release most of the dead air (or whatever is in there) and I'm good.
Peace
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