Venus Vaporizer

[PPN]

Hi, I received my Venus today but I need some help:

Did it comes with fully charged battery or not?
Can i use it while charging?
when it is charging the light on the wall adaptater might to be red or green?

Actually it is charging, I tried to turn it on but nothing is happened but the light on the wall adaptater is green (fully charged?)...
When I plugged it, it lights for some minutes and the light turned off...

help please!

 

[mrweed]

mine was charged!
have you tried to start it with the boost button and/or turning the knob?

 

[Egzoset]

Salutations PPN,

...I need some help...

Hummm... We can be sure that's going to be resolved one way or another, hang on!!



In the meantime i'll use this opportunity to repeat a simple comment which i've expressed earlier this year, secretly wishing the manufacturer might notice it this time (...):

FC: Venus Vaporizer (2014-Jan-4)​

« ...the Venus could be offered as a round-base stripped-down table-only unit with absolutely nothing else inside than an halogen bulb inserted into its heat-exchanger: plug it into a dimmer-controlled AC outlet to vape or just use it like a V-Lamp between cannabic sessions... »​

Doesn't this event suggest that in such "Plan-B" scenario all an owner would have needed is a change of bulb, actually?...

 

[sdrsh]

@PPN the charging is indicated by the same red light on the front of the VV, as if it was heating up or boost being pressed.

Try this: unplug the unit and put the knob to 50% (you should feel a slight click when turning the knob past at 50%) and push the boost button once. Now the red light would indicate that it is heating up (for 20min 20sec).

If it doesn't come on, plug it into the wall until the red light goes off, which indicates that it is fully charged.

 

[PPN]

Ok, it works now, I done a 5mn burn-off (and I can saw why...lot of fumes!) and tried my first bowl (just before I done a little elb through my cloud+) with a small load and my first impressions are not really good cause I can't taste my flowers and vapor production was not enough thick at all, it takes a long time to spent my load (it was difficult to know when it was finish cause i can't taste it) even at full blast +boost BUT I'm medicated and abv is light brown.

So I hope more testing and more time helps to get a better taste and thicker vapor since the Venus medicate me very well (I beleive my abv and the effects).

In the website it's written there is a user guide provided, I can't find it, I lost some minutes but I was able to understand it.

 

[mrweed]

it's very interesting that there are so many different opinions. I start to think that all Venus units perform slightly different.
@PPN there is an PDF, could send it to you, if you inbox me your email.

anyway, ville should put this on his website, so everbody can download it themself.

 

[PPN]

2nd bowl: i load as my MiniVap basket in the Venus bowl and start at 70% connected to my big weedstar bubbler and start to hit but Ithink that I didn't wait enough cause firsts hits was wispy but after vapor becames thickier and I can exhale some clouds (I finish it at full blas) and I was very well medicated but I can't speak about milk my bubblers, the vapor is not so thick than the nano, Cloud+ and MV and even my Xp or TV evo....

But I can see lot of potential in this vape... some question:

Do you heat the Venus before to put the bowl into?
How long is the heating time?
Herbs fly in the bowl, perhaps I need to pack it with an added screen in the bowl?

This unit is far away the idea that we can get of a portable vape, it's really bigger than my nano, it's a perfect camping vape!

Third bowl: I packed a huge bowl and put a ss screen on the load and started the session at 90%+ boost (I preheated the unit some mn)= 1st hit was nice and at the 2nd the glass top was full of vapor, too much my abv was black and I can't test it anymore, pause

I think i just need to find the perfect t° spot, the perfect load and packing and everything will be nice, I think it's not really easy to use this vape (at least for me!)
Flowers Taste is more present now since I put some flowers through it, I think a longer burn off would be nice, but it still really different than the Cloud or the MV...

I dream to take a bath with my Venus on the side and the whip in the mouth....aaaargh the nirvana!

 

[Egzoset]

Hi again PPN,

...it's a perfect camping vape!

As a matter of fact i vaguely recall its halogen bulb is rated for 12 Volts operation, which means that should someday some Venus owner want to get an automobile cigarette-lighter option then i'd be tempted to believe that it seems like a possible feature, eventually. At least i guess it shouldn't take much Finlandaise work to offer that popular item to camping/vaping enthousiasts...

 

[mrweed]

Herbs fly in the bowl, perhaps I need to pack it with an added screen in the bowl?

this sounds like your problem.
did you put on the coverage?! there is a screen below and on top of your herbs.
otherwise you must have put in very little, that it can "fly" inside of the bowl.

i put the herbs in before i start the unit. therefore i have nice vapor when it's full heated, already.

 

[Lemon Curry?]

Gotta love their customer service <3

 

[PPN]

This morning I started the day with a Venus bowl and a HA bowl, my Venus is faulty I think cause it taste really, really, bad (like electricals taste in my mouth and never able to taste flower) and , even if i was able to find a better T° spot the cloud production is not impressive and I'm convince the air path is not sealed so when I pull there is lot of air coming from everywhere(between the glass top and the wood and through the internals perhaps.....) it enter in the glass top and dilute hits.

I'm disappointed cause I hope they checked the unit before to send it to me since Ville told us something was wrong with some last units, I emailed them yesterday and I do it again today cause I can't keep this unit (I think it's not good for my lungs....I feel it).

I can tell you I'm really near to send my unit back and asking for a refund cause unit smell bad and don't performs as expected.

Now I'm pulling on my HA, taste is fantastic with the same flowers and clouds are bigger (dry), I don't use my Venus anymore, something is wrong with this vape but I think it's just my unit, I'll give them another try (with another unit although)

 

[meduser#420]

Dude WTF? @PPN That's exactly what happened to me. Except I didn't have any machinery taste. I did do a pretty good burn off though. Then the other mess happened... So if the next one is not much different then it'll be a $300 halogen paper weight, but all of me wants this vaporizer to kick ass over the competition and be marketed here in the states. I'm trying not to be impatient or intolerant because I support small business.

 

[Egzoset]

Ouch!...

...$300 halogen paper weight...

Or a lamp...

 

[PPN]

Actually I'm not impressed at all by this vape, even since I was able to get a "cleaner" taste (20mn maxi t° burn off and I wiped all the metal part...it was not really clean) and a bit better clouds production (my tubing was not enough inserted).

It performs really poorly, even my HA is far away better cloud machine and even my Xp taste better, battery life time is 4 sessions of 15-20mn...

I can't sent it back before tuesday, so I have 2 days to test it better but if I can't get better results I'll ask for a refund even if I would like support a so small company !

please convince me the venus is a keeper!

 

[sdrsh]

Hello Everybody,

Got the replacement and tested it a couple of times. The airflow was much tighter than the previous unit without any modding done by me. However, there is still too much air leakage to produce desirable vapor, at least what I would like the vapor to be.

When closing the hole on the backside (and even the charger inlet) and sucking on the tubing, there is a soft noise of air coming from either between the glass dome and the unit or the front panel. That's all the diagnostics that I've done with this unit as I am not going to bother anymore.

Just to clarify, I have used lightly and tightly packed bowls, no difference in vapor density.

There is visible vapor produced in the glass dome, and on exhale I get little, thin clouds. Nothing compared to the PAX. (again, pax is my benchmark)

No feeling to the vapor, feels just like air.
(edit: actually, when boosting hard or putting it on high temperature it was harsh to the throat, but that's just high temps, still no feel to the vapor)

As for taste, the only side by side comparison I can make is to the pax, and really there is no comparison between these two right now, there's hardly any taste in what I get from the Venus.

I am not doubting the judgment of people who like and recommend this vape, especially if they have been able to compare it to other high end vapes, but there must be something wrong with what @PPN , @meduser#420 and me have received.

Hoped that I could get a MINIvap for half the price but doesn't look like it now does it?

 

[Egzoset]

Salutations sdrsh,

I am not doubting the judgment of people who like and recommend this vape...

I can and will defend my own opinions if necessary. Because you know what? I do appreciate having an halogen-based concept around such as the Venus, although i don't feel direcly concerned. By the way, anyone happens to have heard of Grange lately?...

 

[sdrsh]

@Egzoset no need to defend an opinion, I tried to state that I respect the opinions and thereby conclude that the mentioned units aren't working on the same standard/level.

But that is my untrained observation and should not be taken as gold standard for user experience... don't want to spoil it for anyone

 

[mrweed]

@PPN, @sdrsh, @meduser#420

can you please confirm that you guys don't have vapor production like this?

this is pretty much like mine performs and i think that's exactly how it should perform!

I still think it's the best portable vaporizer I ever had, however, I didn't know that there are so many faulty units and I really feel bad that not a single one of you guys is happy with what they have recieved. That's really not what I have expected! I thought you guys would be so happy with it, as I am.

I hope that's just the careless work of their new engineer, since there are no such reviews before you guys have bought one. (Or are there, haven't seen one?!)
Nevertheless, I also feel very sorry for Ville, since this was his chance to make it a international big-seller, but in the end he has harmed his company instead.

 

[sdrsh]

@mrweed it's difficult to compare the vapor production inside the glass dome to a video.

When pressing the boost butting and inhaling I can see the same upward flow of vapor through the herb chamber, and the glass dome remains partially filled with vapor throughout a session.
So, as far as I can tell, yes.


I remember Ville mentioning that one should be able to suck off the top cap of the herb chamber, if the "vacuum" or pressure inside the unit are good enough. Well I actually sucked the cap halfway off one time. Just FYI.

 

[mrweed]

hmm... can you see a little twister over the airpath, inside the dome, when sucking in the vapor? might be a hint that the air flow works proper, too

 

[PPN]

I decided to ask for a refund even if I was able to clean it (partially cause the taste is not as expected) and after to watch some videos I think my unit vapor production is standard, just not enough for me...

Ville is a great guy and he believes his product but he already give me my refund even before I send my unit back! I send it to you tuesday Ville be quiet! You spent lot of time to try to help me but i will wait for the next upgrade to test your unit again, you are a great guy and i wish you a better success, I'm sorry but your unit is actually not for me.

Hi FC menbers it's just my experience, I think there is lot of potential....

 

[Egzoset]

Salutations,

Please convince me the venus is a keeper!

Euh... It's the "pioneer" model that preceeded all others which will eventually follow?...

...in the end he has harmed his company instead.

As far as i'm personally concerned the damage was done a relatively long while ago, in more ways than 1.

For starters why take chances with containment and separation of air paths!?? I mean, correct me if i'm wrong but it seems shit does happen when it is allowed, after all!...

 

[RUDE BOY]

@Egzoset most of us don't have quite as much concern about that as you do, right now the air I'm breathing is in contact with all manor of possible "contaminants". I mean the fan on my computer is spewing air that's intermingled with electronics and dust then I am breathing it in, and So are you unless your wearing a mask or O2 tank so get real.

Why Harp on something that's a part of this vaporizers design that really can't change just accept the Fact that the Venus Vaporizer isn't a vaporizer for you and move along.

 

[meduser#420]

I just want a way to get medicated without creating a smoke bomb. I'm paralyzed and need something that is easy to have someone help me with. I have to smoke a lot of times because if it's not simple nobody wants to bother. I personally prefer vaporizing to smoking, but that's another topic.

I'm not a cloud chaser but it is cool to blow clouds.

 

[Egzoset]

Salutations Rude Boy,

Why Harp on something that's a part of this vaporizers design that really can't change...

Unless new evidence has been posted lately i don't have enough information to support such an idea nor its opposite for that matter, can you provide a reference to a post which might change that?