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. At first, many people may have difficulty working their vaporizers. This is not unique only to the Extreme! It is likely that once you get things working smoothly, you may never feel teh need(or want) to combust again.
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 can be a little trickier, but once 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. You can safely turn your Extreme up to the highest temperature without combusting. Units that do combust may be faulty and in that case you may want to contact the manufacturer, Arizer.
Regardless of the type of plant material you may be using with the Extreme, it is important that you get a 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 device will function properly as soon as the readout on the LCD has reached the desired temperature, but you may get better functionality by following this advice. Improved efficiency is probably maintained after a warm up period because the glass parts have had time to heat-soak and stop from cooling down the airflow.
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.
Another technique is to heat the product until it appears slightly blackened from scorching and to back the heat down from there to find the ideal temperature. This temperature may vary from strain to strain.
Loading the Cyclone 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!
Elbow Packs
You may hear of users doing 'elbow packs' from time to time. This is a conservation method usually intended to produce thick milky hits for a single user. People report having excellent efficiency while using this method.
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.
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