[Ollie]

Storz & Bickel MIGTHY

Quality throughout, build, function/experience wise.

[ZiggyStardust]

i have tried the volcano when i had no experience with vapes. loved it but the baloon felt strange... so i bought the Plenty from the same brand. i love it! it was the right vaporizer to transition from joints/pipes to vapes. to this day i think it is the strongest vaporizer i ever tried. downside is it needs quite a lot of material to work as it should. definetely not a saver!

i tried many portables, loved the solo, great design and taste (i bet the air has same standards if not better), but i didn't like so much its resistance. i hear they improved it though... actually thinking about getting a solo or an air

another great portable is the davinci ascent. great taste and great temp control. overall maybe the best portable i have tried (still haven't tried the mighty and the crafty). easy to clean with the 2 pieces glass airpath. works nice also with the concentrate cartridge...

tried the pax, and the pax 2 and i'm not impressed... de. not worth the money...
i have tried the Prima, costy but a great vape! one of the most powerfull portable IMO. it has a little resistance but it doesn't bother me so much... it has resistance but the air flow is right there... my friend called it "the small chillum"

a year ago after a lot of thinking i got The Alfa by goboof. i was looking for something stealthy, small and not to costy. it's made in Ireland with EU standards. i really love it! it has one of the best taste ever, in fact i think it tastes better than the plenty and better than most convection vapes... if you have good weed but you get 20+ hits with a full chamber, which is really small, i think i can fill it with max .2/.15... you should fill the oven full, pack it but not too tight. most times i use the mid setting (180/190 °C) for the whole session. you need to remember to empty the oven right after every session, it helps keep it clean longer. most portables need a more frequent cleaning.., this one is very easy to clean, i do that approx. every 2 days with a pipe cleaner, a q-tip and some alcool.

[ZiggyStardust]

Originally Posted by LowFalutin

S&B include liquid/concentrate pads with all their vaporizers, inc.
the portables...
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but pens, loaded with concentrate cartridges,
are hard to beat for their combination of
stealth, # of hits per charge, ease of use, etc.

i have a plenty and a liquid pad (which i use every time even with flowers), how exaclty you use it with oils? i only succeded sandwitching some oil beetween some bud...

[vapeorbong]

volcano for bag style
vapor bros. for whip style

personally i like the vapor bros because more precise control over heating element and you can make very quick on the fly temp adjustments in very miniscule amounts



i know what people mean when saying vapes seems lighter...they dont give the same body buzz unless turned up to the point of black charring herb, but some of us prefer lighter and floaty'er head highs compared to heavy and debilitating stones...sometimes.


It takes some experimenting but once you find the sweet spot with vapes they are hard to beat for long clean highs

[BudToaster]

i been using an all glass air path vaporizer since 2001. in 2009 it evolved to include computer temperature control using a PIC12F683 and a MAX6675 to read a k-type thermocouple and 35 pages of machine code to implement a PID temperature control algorithm (integer math since the damn PIC doesn't even have add with carry)



custom pcb



and simple nichrome coil heater



battery powered using two A123Systems 26650s (same as in the original Tesla):

• convection and radiant heat
• digital temperature display (BBQ thermometer)
• power on to first toke in 90 seconds (390F)
• only glass and herb in the vapor path
• herb vial is 1/2" diameter by 1 3/8" long - holds .2g
• 90 minutes of run time on a battery charge
• 45 minutes to recharge a dead battery pack
• auto shutoff at 7.5 minutes, extend for 3 minutes at a time
• set any temp from ambient to 499F, uses last saved setting
• cube accepts any DC voltage from 5v to 20v
• 2" wood cube stays cool to the touch
• leather case holds cube, power pack & 36" cable, glassware, herb can, tweezers, toothpicks

not a product yet, since it is illegal to make, market or sell a cannabis vaporizer in USA. here's hoping.

but definitely the Bud Toaster is my favorite vaporizer - i have three units scattered around my crib and office.

oh, yeah ... open source design and code. really.

[ZiggyStardust]

Originally Posted by BudToaster

i been using an all glass air path vaporizer since 2001. in 2009 it evolved to include computer temperature control using a PIC12F683 and a MAX6675 to read a k-type thermocouple and 35 pages of machine code to implement a PID temperature control algorithm (integer math since the damn PIC doesn't even have add with carry)

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custom pcb

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and simple nichrome coil heater

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battery powered using two A123Systems 26650s (same as in the Tesla):

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• convection and radiant heat
• digital temperature display (BBQ thermometer)
• power on to first toke in 90 seconds (390F)
• only glass and herb in the vapor path
• herb vial is 1/2" diameter by 1 3/8" long - holds .2g
• 90 minutes of run time on a battery charge
• 45 minutes to recharge a dead battery pack
• auto shutoff at 7.5 minutes, extend for 3 minutes at a time
• set any temp from ambient to 499F, uses last saved setting
• cube accepts any DC voltage from 5v to 20v
• 2" wood cube stays cool to the touch
• leather case holds cube, power pack & 36" cable, glassware, herb can, tweezers, toothpicks

not a product yet, since it is illegal to make, market or sell a cannabis vaporizer in USA. here's hoping.

but definitely the Bud Toaster is my favorite vaporizer - i have three units scattered around my crib and office.

oh, yeah ... open source design and code. really.

this is fantastic! great project ad info, you are my hero

[fuzzdog]

There is only One vaporizer.... the "volcano classic"......

[BudToaster]

something i have been wanting to try for over 7 years since i first did a computer temperature controlled vaporizer, is to replace the 16awg nichrome wire heater with a nichrome ribbon heater. so, today, i finally got a test rig setup to try the new heater:



close up of the new heater:



and here it is doing its thing:



and the result of a test run:




this will be a much easier heater coil to fabricate and subjectively, it works better: much more contact between the heater coil and the borosilicate oven tube, compared to the wire coil. this is HUGE!

still my favorite vaporizer!

[DEATH BY SNUSNU]

PAX hands down

[CosmicGiggle]

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...l.pone.0147286

Here's a scientific article I lifted from another site comparing 4 vapes for efficiency and how much they put out.

Arizer Solo wins out over the Volcano.