Thanks for taking the time to look at my stuff and comment schmidt. Nice xq2 always a fun time rocking the good old cyclone/conneseur bowl and bag :)

I like bags for the experience but it had some downsides for me. First the vapor gets stale quick by the time you get done filling a big bag a lot of the the terps and cannabinoid oil has been lost condensated back onto the inside of bag. Then the bag gets a little stale tasting after a few uses. Then you have to buy more bags to replace stale dirty bag, and go through a process of redoing the balloon rubber bands holding the glass insert.

The orb offers the same kind of visual appeal of watching the vapor fill a thing to the point of milking it then ripping the dense vapor all at once. You can even use the balloon fan to fill it up. The difference is when it inevitably gets dirty inside you can just spray it down with alcohol and rinse with water at the sink.

The omega wand kits from ddave are game changers. I was unsatisfied with the stock cyclone /conesseuir bowl+ whip. I didn’t like all the airflow that made the vapor feel whispy, I didnt like how big the bowls were which always cooked herb unevenly, I didnt like how high the herb sits above the heater which took minutes to fully extract anything. The stock EQ was mid easily beat out in power by a simple dynavap.

The omega wand and adapters turned it into a top tier one hitter rig. Think elbow packing with much better extraction able to get all the vapor from a bowl in a single hit. Think being able to milk a small bag the size of the orb using a tiny bit of herb stretching out your grinder of expensive ganja out crazy amounts.

The goo roo hookah mouthpiece is a really really nice luxury if you are a whip user. The teeny little glass mouthpieces sent by arizer never felt luxurious to use or pleasant hold in the hand. It was a very basic functional restricted airflow mouthpiece.

The goo-roo mouthpiece is an absolute unit of glass. It feels great to hold in the hand and hit out of. I like it a lot easy recommend to any eq/xq2 owner who likes the whip.

The ruby balls are the final piece of the puzzle for the ddave adapters. Adding the balls makes the entire bowl cook evenly all the way through. Every watt of power the EQ can consume gets put to use heating up the balls it literally puts all possible power into extracting the herb completely and quickly. I’m convinced the only way to get better extraction would be an actual ball vape with beefy PID and injection chamber eating hundreds of watts.

Someone’s told me before after seeing my cleaning sesh it was too much work and I was better off just smoking lol. Well I figure its better to get the pieces gunked than my lungs. All the parts come together to realise my ideal extraction situation. The added maintenance is the trade off to maximizing performance kinda like a sports car.

Do I have problems with combusting the flower? Not anymore, but I used to. It required trial error and experience to dial in the right temps.

My perspective has always been that I want to extract all the vapor possible from flower. And the color of the herb tells you how much vapor is left to be extracted.

That means high temps and riding it right to the point just before combustion where the flower turns pitch black . My ideal extraction has the herb looking completely black cooked evenly all the way through.

Getting to that point with any arrangement of equipment takes experimentation to find ideal temp zones. During the experimentation phase combustion is likely, but after finding the sweet zone and some experience to lock it in theres basically no chance of combustion.

If you combust, dial it down 15 - 20 degrees f and try again. I settled in using the omega wands and cyclone/conesseuir bowl at 428F/220C/493.15K any point beyond that risk combustion if theres too much airflow.

Once I got ruby balls over the ceramic heater with ddave adapters, dialing in the temp became entirely a question of how many balls to add if I combusted I added 5-8 balls and tried again. Setting device to max and Covering the ceramic heater core with 1 layer of 3mm ruby is enough to eliminate combustion potential.

Anyways sorry for long 5 paragraph essay hope this helped inform you.