So here's another update after some more time with the VHW. I apologize for the lengthy post but it's been some more days with it and TLDR, I'm impressed.
I first want to fully disclose that before this purchase, I didn't own much in the way of 18mm bowls. All I have currently is the Arizer Connoisseur bowl and an 18/14 adapter that I shoved a screen into the bottom of to make a very narrow bowl.
I expected the Connoisseur bowl to be good based on
@Vaporooni 's videos... and it is! Very cool to see the flower blowing around and getting crispy. The taste is super soft and flavorful. I'm impressed still.
But I wanted to see how the VHW performed as an injector. After some advice from
@Vaporooni I have some DDave Arizer XQ2/VTower mod bowls coming, and some regular and XL glass injector bowls from SneakyPete on the way too.
However since they're not here now I tried using the VHW as an injector with that makeshift 18mm bowl I made out of my 18/14mm adapter. The bowl was super narrow as it was mostly contained in the 14mm side of the adapter. The VHW was nice and close to the flower and it worked great!
No burning, great taste and many, many smooth draws. I don't know how much this makeshift bowl holds but if I had to guess it's only about 0.1g. Crazy.
If the VHW does this well with a makeshift bowl, I can only imagine how nice it'll be with the bowls I have on the way!
One other thing. I had been powering the VHW with a small but powerful powerbank but I recently tried it in the USB-C of my Tesla and it works great. Don't worry though... I won't vape and drive but if I'm parked for a few hours... all bets are off
Edit:
Here's a pic of my makeshift bowl using the VHW as an injector.