How To Use The Extreme Vaporizer
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If you're an Extreme Vaporizer expert, please help improve this article! Originally from a post by stickstones on fuckcombustion.com
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Introduction
Congratulations on your new Extreme Vaporizer purchase. If you’re like me, this is your first vaporizer and you haven’t got a clue what to do now. I totally failed the first night with the thing and went back to smoking for the night. The next day I got it all straight and haven’t smoked since (February 2008)!
If you're new to vaporizing, the first thing you need to understand is this is different from smoking. With smoking you just start a fire and inhale. Vaporizing is a little trickier, but if you get it right, chances are you will never go back to smoking again. With vaporizing, you need to get the temp just right so that it is hot enough to create vapor, but not so hot that it scorches your herb. With rare exception, the Extreme isn’t capable of combustion. A few people have reported it, but if this happens to you, I think you have a defective unit and you need to email Arizer. One thing’s for certain, their customer service is top notch. Greetings! We are offering research papers service for all especially students. We are giving some tips and guidelines about this topic. If you are interested just click the link for more information and details.
Regardless of the type of plant material you may be using w/the Extreme, it is critically important that you get a high quality grinder that gets the material down to particles as small as possible. Vaping is all about surface area and the difference between a coarse grinder and a fine grinder is one will use 1/2 the materials for the same effect. Some people also wish to grind the material between sessions but this can also lead to oil buildup in the grinder.
Important Note
There are currently 3 revisions of the Extreme. The only way for you to be certain of which version you have is to turn your unit on and dial the temperature to its maximum setting and see how high it goes.
- v1 - 350C
- v2 - 250C
- v3 - 260C
It's important to understand that the temperature of the element and the air hitting the herbs is identical in all 3 revisions. The only difference is the temperature reading on the display.
Using the Extreme
Warm Up
The first thing you need to do is let your unit warm up. I let mine warm up for 20 minutes before using it, and then it stays on for the rest of the night. I like to warm my unit up to 10 degrees hotter than I am going to vaporize at and then back it down when it is time to go. I also let it warm up for 10 of those 20 minutes by itself. This is when I grind the herb. I use a grinder with a screen to collect kif, which is a great thing to have when you either want to get completely rocked, or for when you run out of fresh herb. I've never tried to vaporize anything that wasn't ground. I then put a loaded bowl on the unit for the last 10 of the 20 warm-up minutes.
Temperatures
Several things affect the sweet spot for the Extreme such as the speed of the fan or your draw. It may take some time for you to find what you like, but here’s what settings I have been using lately with good success:
- Low/mid quality herb
- v1 - 320C
- v2 - 220C
- v3 - 220C
- High quality herb
- v1 - 290C
- v2 - 190C
- v3 - 190C
I like to turn it up 5C for each successive bag.
Loading the Bowl
Your loaded bowl should not be more than half full, or up to the black coating. I find that my unit is more efficient if I load up the bowl only half this amount, or a quarter full. A small spoon can assist in loading the bowl
- A bowl filled 1/5 of the way to the black cover, at 185 (ExtremeV3) produces 2 tasty bags that easily get one chronic user ripped.
Hitting the Whip
Once it is warmed up it is time to enjoy! For the whip I take a long, slow draw that lasts about 20 seconds. Then I try to hold it in for about 30 seconds. I can usually get about three hits off this before it is time to stir the bowl and get a few more!
Filling Bags
For the bag I simply attach it and turn the fan onto setting three (setting two and one produce vapor with increasing density). Once the bag is full, turn the fan off and party up! I can usually get up to four bags full before I reload, stirring the bowl between each bag. Be careful not to get too annihilated and forget that you have the fan on. I have done that a few times and am lucky I didn’t ruin the unit
Making New Bags
Glad Press'n Seal can be used as a stopper.
Water Filtration
The Extreme uses a standard 18.8mm connection on both the whip and a bag mouthpieces. They can connect to a 18.8mm GonG joint. (The bag stem has a GonG joint?) Hold the bag upright when connected to a bong to facilitate airflow.
- The whip uses this joint to connect to the vaporizer, not the mouthpiece. This means it cannot be connected to a bong.
For Super Thick Hits
A tip from Steve at Arizer:
| I understand some people like thicker/more concentrated hits, something that can be achieved by 'packing the bowl'. The younger crowd and bong users often like a thicker/more concentrated (and smokey) hit.
That can be easily achieved with the Extreme and V-Tower, it's probably something I should of mentioned before, because the method I'm about to describe is very popular in some circles and extremely popular with those who collect 'pollen' in their (Wicca) Kif Box. Instead of filling the bowl as you normally would, leave it empty, turn the heat up a few degrees higher than normal, finely grind your herbs, (or use 'pollen powder' from a kif box) and then fill/pack the (dome shaped) screen that sits in the elbow shaped glass piece. You'll be surprised how much you can pack in there, now set the elbow on the bowl as you normally would, let it 'sit and percolate' a few minutes and inhale, that will give you a VERY thick, concentrated, monster size hit . If you're using Pollen from a Wicca Box you're getting a super tasty, super concentrated amount of the finest part of the plant so you can imagine the effect! |
If you use this method, don't worry about the herb falling out because it is upside down. You're supposed to pack it in the screen so it sticks.
Tips
What I do with my V Tower Extreme
Efficiency
Obviously, you bought the Extreme because you wanted to try a variety of methods. However, there are often times, when you wish to conserve material. Several users at FC report the following technique to stretch out their meds, "use the dome (Super Thick Hits method above) for a few hits, making a small pile of the material between and using all of it together in the cyclone bowl at a higher temp at the end."
etc.
As a newbie, I think these settings and instructions will get you up and running pretty quickly. However, one of the great things about vaporizing is the settings are many and the preference is up to you. Once you get comfortable with getting vapor out of your Extreme, play around with the settings to see what you like best. Remember that there is no right or wrong group of settings to use, just what works best for you.
For example, some people replace their herb before I do, some do it later. Some vaporize at cooler temperatures than I do and get great results. Some even use lower fan speeds and like it. The settings I suggest here are only what I like and what I have found to be easy to use to get good results the first time.
Another thing to remember is that the ‘honey’, or yellow stuff that accumulates in the tubing is loaded! Do not throw it out, but rather scrape it out or extract it using some other method and you will not be disappointed when you put some of it on your next batch of herb! Don't forget to save your spent herb for cooking or something later.
More Info on the Temp Sensor Changes
Here's an email I got from Arizer regarding the temp setting and the location of the sensor. I don't see anything here that hasn't already been pointed out at sometime here, but he does a great job of putting it all together at once.
| The Heat Sensor and Temperature topic is one we can't seem to win, it's a complex topic, easy to explain if I could show you and tell you in person, let me try and explain here the best I can...
First we had the units with the Sensor embedded inside the heater, as result the LCD display would go up to 350C, showing the 'true' or 'static' heater temperature. From an Engineer's standpoint they told me this was the best way to do it, a sensor lasts longer reading a static temp than a variable temp, it turns the heater on/off less. Customers didn't like that, they felt since other vape's on the market showed a temp closer to the 'actual' vaporization temp of herbs, then ours should too. In a lot of ways I agree, it's ideal if a vaporizer could show the 'exact' vaporization temp of the herbs, (none on the market do by the way). Anyway, we moved the sensor so the LCD would show a temperature more in relation to what herbs vaporize at. (It's important to note that the Extreme's that had a max LCD temp of 350 and and the ones which show a max of 250 reach exactly the 'same' actual temperatures inside the bowl. The heater reaches the same range of 'actual' temperatures only the LCD shows a different reading. Our Vaporizer is the first 2 in 1 Unit, Balloon or Whip, that works really well. We use two different temperature settings; a lower setting for the whip since the airflow is different, and a higher setting for the balloon because the air is moving conistently and faster so you require more heater, some people don't understand that. Some people really do think it's like a cruise control setting for a car, you set it at 80 and it's going to go 80 no matter what, uphill/downhill doesn't matter ... a vape isn't the same at all, there are variables, you can't expect to set it at 200C and get perfect vapor everytime, thick enough so it's effective, yet a low enough temp so it's not smokey or harsh, further some expect that no matter whether it's moist or really dry, or ground fine or coarse or regardless of what quality the herbs are that the vapor should be the same. You know as well as I do now after vaporizing for a while that this isn't possible. For the max temps it's been a challenge too, we get as many people telling us that the Extreme gets too hot as we do not hot enough. Some think the maximum setting should produce a very light vapor, others want a really thick vapor. The answer is to experiment with each grade/kinds of herbs you have and use your favorite setting for each. Not getting hot enough is the hardest to deal with, you can't just tell the Customer to turn it higher to solve the problem. I personally feel the main reason for people saying this now is because they expect to be able to turn the unit on and blow a balloon immediately, if you do your first bag will be light, even when set it at 250C. Once the glass warms up it really holds the heat and you'll require a setting much lower than 250C. Problem is if we allow for a higher maximum temperature and once it's warmed up if you put really dry, finely ground herbs in there then they'll burn and stink up the balloon and hose and we then get complaints from that, LOL. It's hard to please everyone, but we do try hard |
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