This. This is what I've been looking for
This is an amazingly powerful little device with broad and unexpected compatibility and versatility.
High points:
- perhaps due to the beveled design of the heater and the alternative size of the interface depending on how it is flipped, I find this compatible with almost any bowl/device that I own including crossing tech hybrid bowl, cannabis hardware matrix bowl, glass injector bowls, even random blown glass -if the bowl is circular enough to make a decent seal with the heater
- small easily portable, which becomes more relevant after I discovered the next point
- My ispure Wand can heat this up. This is what I have been hoping for in a device for a while. I was excited when cannabis. hardware made 20 mm heaters because they fit perfectly into the wand. But it doesn't work. The metal is too close to the device itself and it shuts off due to overheating before the heater is at a proper temperature. The small size of the hornet allows a gap between the heating metal and the wand. I can heat it up to good vaporizing temperature in one heating cycle with the wand.
Cons?
- requires an uncommon size coil, so if you're adding it to a preexisting set up you will need to buy a new coil or a converter. Not a big deal.
-I prefer when heaters have either Alan wrench screws, or better yet, are threaded directly like a screw lid top so it is easy to switch out the interior balls. I could also solve this by buying snap ring pliers for a few bucks, but not needing a tool would be cool.
I did replace some of the 3mm rubies with 4mm SiC beads. I really didn't use the device too much before I did this so i'm not sure how much it changed its dynamics. I may try to source some 3mm SiC beads to try a mix of 3-4 SiC.
I may try to make a leather case that will hold the heater in place against the wand. It would be cool if ispure and hornet got together for an adapter like Dynavp did.