It tells you more something about how lazy and lethargic the average consumer is. How hot and fast you can boil the water of that particular frog species before it even starts to think of jumping ship.
As long as X game with horrible anti-cheat and Y commercial software with a million dollar monopoly on its polish works the average windows user just does not care what Microsoft does.
Thats a very ideal picture of a corpse thats been buried in the ground without a coffin that deep. Must have used one hell of an embalmer.
Also yeah me and the family still miss and talk about the dead pets. You never forget your loved ones and keep the memories alive.
You’ll both have lots of time to get used to the idea. Sorry to hear that your daughter turned into a gold digger marrying out of financial convinence instead of love. Its kind of unsavory and understandable why its causing some cognitive dissonance. But well thats the kind of thing our society incentivises and she’s an adult who can make her own choices. Its hard to judge too hard. Hope the husband is alright personality wise and even if this is dark to say, you can take some solice in that statistically speaking its probably not going to last too long and she will probably inherit some assets. If it all burns down it will be a hard but good lesson in not being with people just to extract value out of them.
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. However its not a method I reach for often anymore. The vapor gets stale tasting 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 itself gets a little stale tasting after a few uses affecting flavor even more. 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 glass 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. 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.
Thank you! I added a video link to the description if you wanted to see it in action.
The glass orb is easy to clean, the pieces that insert into the vaporizer need cleaning from time to time. The metal omega wand extraction device works best with some melted beeswax covering it so it doesn’t stick into the glass adapters it inserts into. It uses metal bowl screens which need cleaning.
Thank you for the reply! The glass orb doesn’t take falls very well its a relatively fragile piece. However its cheap enough to replace from time to time.
The vaporizer itself requires no maintenance. The adapters and stuff inserted into it needs cleaning after awhile.
Good attetion to detail. I have ruby balls directly above the heater so it behaves more like a ball vape. They balance things out while improving the extraction.
You are welcome. Im happy if my writings can inform a few people from time to time. Yes thats absolutely what it means if you read the fine print of ecosia they tell you how they collect your data including IP address+ search terms and share it with google and Microsoft’s ad network to show you ads through ecosia. So your data is still coming back google and Microsoft to be sold to the highest bidder. Everyones gotta get a cut profititing off your data, except for you. At least a small bit of that profit goes to the trees I guess.
Here’s my guide to alternative search engines that discusses all the different search engines and how they differ under the hood. I wrote it to be understandable to everyone not just tech nerds.
Ads aren’t a thing in my life. On the off day I have to visit someone who lives with ads and suffer through one or two I tough it out, or look at my phone, or do something different.
I don’t watch live TV. I dont pay for any subscription services except phone service and internet data. I watch YouTube content that has the ads stripped out. I download youtube videos that get often rewatched to hard drive. For movies I buy DVD that can have the drm stripped out.
I play good video games preferably drm free (steam is the one service I can’t really give up easy, but it has offline mode and the deck so praise gaben!). I read e-books that are drm free. I have a mp3 player downloaded with all my music drm free.
The better question is, why are you willing to live with ads at all? Assuming you are in control of your living situation and have the power change whats shown on tv or played through speakers.
Why would you tolerate being constantly bombarded with manipulative messaging by companies, political canpaigns, and all the other powerful groups who want to affect he masses for their benefit?
Why is it so hard just say no? To give up the forms of toxic entertainment delivery? Why can’t you sacrifice ease and convinence and familiarity to regain some control overhow your attention is spent during free time?
If you like something, buy it and really take the steps to own it physically.
Hey there panicnow! I would be happy to help give some input. It is better to avoid firing up the AC inverter whenever possible. If you have a car travel adapter for your devices that plug into the jackeries cigarette plug port that would be better. If you absolutely need more usbc-pd ports for your devices, there is a way to do that given your jackary has one or two of those circular barrel plug outputs that output 12v. Most powersttions should have one or two of them.
If you have one of those barrel plug inputs youre in luck. Go on amazon and buy one of these to turn those jacks into car cigarette plug inputs.
Then get a really nice usbc-pd car charger. I don’t actually have one but I like anker and trust their 100w pd charger would be high quality. You can go cheaper if you only need 65w or lower.
Thanks. Lighting has been an ongoing puzzle I’m figuring out. I originally went with rechargeable Luci light it was really nice warm bright lighting but expensive and failed within a season. Currently I’m using a cheap 5v plastic led light bulb that plugs into regular usba slot. Its enough to see what you are doing comfortably. But really the average person whos used to house bulbs including me wants the luxury of bright lighting. For now I’ve been firing up the AC inverter to run a nice lamp. However I have been considering making my own 12v light fixture with 12v e26 bulbs that plugs into either car cig plug or usbc-pd.
In this picture is marked all the parts of an LED circuit that convert AC Into DC. It takes up about 40% of the board. Its much easier to power LEDs directly.
One of DCs main issues is transmission distance. Its hard to say for your case without details but its a good possibility. If you have a volt meter and know how to use it check the voltage at the start of the run and compare it to the end of the run and see how much the voltage has dropped. If your trying to push 12v over 20-30ft I would say theres a good chance of it being too little voltage over too far a length. Wire diameter is also a factor if its very small gauge wiring.
Im happy to explain pastermil. So first off let’s talk power.
Electrical Power Systems
Most off-grid electrical systems have a few major components.
A device that generates electrical energy
A battery that stores excess electrical energy for later
A charge controller which regulates the incoming raw electrical power from the generator as it charges up the battery, and smooths out the battery energy output
A power distribution interface which allows for connecting appliances to the batteries in a safe standardized way.
My particular electric system has a 200w 28v solar panel for power generation, two 20ah lifepo4 batteries connected to double capacitance, and the charge controller doubles as a very basic interface with two usba slots and a car cigarette port.
AC vs DC
Now let’s talk about AC and DC. Theres essentially two kinds of electrical power people deal with.
The difference between Alternating Current and Direct Current is in the way the power flows. Direct current moves in a straight path. Alternating current moves power back and forth in three perfectly spaced cycles.
AC The one most people are more familiar with is AC power. it comes to your home from power plants through power lines and transformer boxes. You move around extension cords and plug the three prong outlets into a wall.
Alternating Current (three phase) power is very easy to transmit long distance however its very high voltage. So only certain power hungry devices like kitchen appliances, washing machines, dryers and AC compressors use it directly. Most of your consumer home devices need to convert AV power down into more manageable DC power.
DC Offgrid electrical systems with batteries are Direct Current by nature. All your power comes from the battery banks. The power moves straight from battery terminal negative to positive. It flows right through your appliances in one way out the other.
The battery banks tend to be arranged into 12v, 24v, or 48v depending on the systems power draw and transmission needs.
The popular standards for delivering direct current are:
5v 2.4a usb (15 watts)
12v 10a car cigarette plugs (120 watts, can be rated to supply 24v fused 15a I believe though not common at all)
circular dc barrel plug connectors, the most common size is 5.5mmx2.5mm but there are dozens if not hundreds of slightly different barrel plugs. Part of what makes usb so great is reducing arbitrary manufacturing complexity like this.
usbc-pd various voltages depending on charger, cable, and device at up to 100w for current protocol.
solar quick connects tend to be for connecting and transmitting high voltage DC power to charge controllers and power banks. Its worth mentioning but not that relevant to what were talking about.
Most consumer devices in your home dont actually use wall outlet AC power directly, it uses wall power thats been converted and stepped down to DC power.
Desktop computer power supplies, Laptops, monitors, vaporizers, led lights, DVD players, audio speakers, your phone. everything that can powered by usb and batteries. Everything that has barrel plug inputs and power bricks plugging into it.
If you look closely on the power bricks plugged into the appliance you’ll see that it has an input and output voltage rating. The input tends to be 120vac here in america 240v over the pond, and the output tends to be either 5v, 9v, 12v, 15v or 20v DC usually up to 5 amps.
Device vs Voltage Examples
Laptops and computer monitors tend to be 20v, fast charging smart phones and the Nintendo switch docked are 15v, very bright home LED lights can be bought that are powered at 12v directly, the ps2 could be powered with 9v, and most usb devices charge at standard 5v. Would you like to guess which voltage profiles the USBC-PD protocol is capable of? Its all of them.
Energy Conversion Efficency Losses
Now let’s discuss energy efficiency. Converting from AC to DC eats up some of your power. So does converting from DC to AC. And its not small losses either, each time you convert its about a 15% total loss in efficency.
This loss through conversion doesn’t matter when you pay cents on a kilowatt and have unlimited power at the tap. It adds up very quickly when you have a limited power supply and every watt hour counts.
Let’s say I want to power a laptop on my offgrid DC system and my only means of powering it is the AC power brick cable that it came with. I would need to:
Add these up and you get 30-40% of your power eaten away by this needless double converting. Wouldnt it be really nice if we could convert the battery DC voltage directly to the appliance DC voltage without those power hungry inverters and transformers?
What DC-to-DC Converters Are
Thats where dc to dc converters come in. They can convert one DC voltage to another. They still introduce efficency loss but way way less only 10% total.
Traditionally you would hope your device had a commercially available 3rd party travel adapter for 12v car batteries. The dc to dc converter is built in and uses car plug.
If you were SOL you has to wire up boost converters to raise up voltage and add resistors in series to lower it. You ever try to wire and solder your own circuts before? Its a tedious experience. Imagine doing that for each device voltage. Oh wait, you dont have to. Here’s what that looks like.
A USBC-pd 100w charger that plugs into a cigarette port or is built into a power bank can convert a batteries 12vDC into 5v, 9v, 12v 15v, and 20v dynamically depending on the device.
Do you know how magical that is? How much trouble that saves when it comes to mcguyvering a DC appliance that only came with AC cable to supply proper power directly? All I need is a 10$ usbc-pd to barrel plug cable that manually selects the voltage needed and some barrel plug adapter bits to fit into the appliance. Energy efficent and simple wiring. All the dynamic controller stuff is abstracted away in a safe way. Powerful enough to deliver 100 watts of power, and its going to be more powerful over time.
Usbc-pd is an absolute game changer as an off grid person. The fact a 100w charger can act as a dc to dc converter with up to five output voltages, at up to 100 watts is crazy. And that the protocol automatically detects and communicates the proper voltage is very convinent. The problem is that usbc-pd 100w chargers are expensive and you need to know what you are doing if you want to diy power appliances with it.
Its really nice to have a standardized cable that just works and can be plugged in both ways. We really are approaching a Universaal Cable after a quarter century of RnD.
Very cool thanks! I love the arizer EQ and XQ2 looks like a great successor. Are you still using the cyclone/ conesseuir bowl with whip and elbow it came with? That setup didnt really work for my needs, and found that the way to really boost the extraction is to add some vape balls over the ceramic heater, bump temp up to max, and use a direct draw device. Pitch black extraction all the way through the bowl.
I think I saw your cart making post a few days ago or last week. Hope it goes well for you. I wanted to ask why you chose to go for carts and extracts over dry herb vapes? Do you know about them? Both generally acomplish extracting the plant oils and resins cleanly into your lungs. It seems like a lot of work making carts and pressing rosin just to get potently stoned cleanly. I love dabs and concentrate but its a process to get them extracted. I’d rather just directly vaporize the plant oil out of the herb and be done with it. I hope this question doesn’t come across in a rude way I’m glad you found the method just works for you. Just curious on your thoughts about dry herb vaping.
Just do the process you normally do with the proper weight of grams and hope it all works out. You are presumably doing a free service for your friend using the valuable skillset and experience you have gained. They have no room to complain if the bud they supply you is mid and makes mid edibles or if the bud is fire and they end up sickly potent.
Does smell signify potency? I think theres a correlation at least some placebo where you think sticky dank flower is more potent so it is. You can put some humidity back into the flower to try to bring back some smell and stickyness but if youre cooking it anyways no point.