Why exactly is a hybrid better for group sessions, the clouds? Or are you saying because the cfx has a bigger bowl and bigger battery. I wonder if boundless would make a full convection version of cfx?
Ease of use. The good battery life on both the CFX and Mighty is a plus and if I had to constantly charge them I probably wouldn't tout as high. And the bigger oven on the CFX (Mighty isn't huge but workable for 3-4 people), is also a plus. But my friends smoke, except when I'm with them. They use my desktop convections sometimes, but that's because they are pluggin in, running, and are X temp. IMO, Portable Convection is finicky and requires technique. You are always starting your bowl, from cold. So you have to engage the heater, and then not draw too fast to overexert it until it builds up enough temp. Does that make sense? I never let my friends use my Firewood for instance because they don't understand a slow steady rip, and they get shitty results because they are inhaling faster than the heater can keep up.
Except one friend, he is the opposite. He draws too fucking slow. Combusting in my FW. Combusting in my Sticky Brick. Lotus, etc.
Guess the point is everyone is different and it's annoying having to explain and go over technique and then try to refine each individual users nuances so they get good results.
Conduction/Hybrids, you set the temp. The oven reaches temp. My instructions consist of, "hit it, long and steady" as that just gives everyone good hits on basically every vape. I don't have to worry about the heater not being hot enough, because the heater is already set to heat up the oven. I also don't have to worry about my other friend riding the line of combustion, because the heater in the oven is again, set to a temp where combustion won't happen.
Does that make sense? Just a longwinded way of me saying, ease of use LOL.
I would think that torch dabs and e-nails are 100% conduction, the only exception I can think of might be the vapexnail, which seems that it may qualify as a hybrid solution but I haven't tried it personally.
Here is my perspective. I don't think any of them are actually 100% of anything, but skew in certain directions. For instance, torch dabs, and enail dabs, are more conduction, for sure, you're melting it onto a hot surface to hit, definition of conduction basically. But, do you low temp dab? If you do, you'll recognize a carb cap is needed and I
believe this contributes to the overall better taste at low temps. Rather than conduction your whole dab onto a 800 degree rig, if you use 625, it will pool onto the plate and you'll get some vapor, but once you cap it and the air circulates around, you really can fill the can up thick. And it tastes great! So I tend to think convection is being used in some capacity here. (I am spitballing)
Similarly, the VXnails, are more convection. But after you take your convection hit, once all that hot air ran past the nail and in turn heated up the quartz/glass, you then start getting some conduction effects. I notice this the most
after my dab using the EVO. You get a really tasty hit using the EVO with concentrates, but towards the tail end of your hit, I always get a plume of gross crappy residue that is burning off. I think that happens because of conduction.
Also, if anyone has used a Sapphire Disc from D-nail with their enail, that is "convection style dabbing" as it is never directly on the super hot surface. The disc is above the nail/heater and while it gets hot, its not as hot as the nail below it. And a cap is again necessary. No gross taste on tail end of this.
Rambling on...