Hi, I’m a benchtop lab worker delving into the practical chemistry of DMT.
[I hope a moderator can liberate this post into the vaping category. I didn’t see that I could and indeed should have posted in Welcome Discussion but I also don’t see a delete button to rid it here. I’ve answered the full Nexus questioner. Sadly, MintyLove who promotes direct eMesh on Reddit and YouTube, along with the Volt and 510 cartridges, he quickly banned even the original post when I added this study I had just finished to someone’s post on Reddit.com/r/MintyLove about the Orbit. That community is going to lack this amazing news unless some outreach is done. Evidently Yocan spammed their forum over the years so he called me a shill and banned my account from his Reddit group.]
The new $35 Yocan Orbit quartz cup vaporizer works much better than the Pulsar APX Volt and as such becomes a better option even than esoteric direct eMesh kits since it’s very much easier to use, much more compact, much faster to acquire, much cheaper, and has 50% greater battery capacity than the Volt.
Here’s proof.
A large (3 litre stroke) Coleman hand pump inflator was used as an artificial lung through a soft transparent tube connected to the mouthpieces. The density of vapor given off from 35mg DMT is then directly visible and the more dense it is we know the faster the DMT is being used up.
If the vapor is so dense you can’t see through it at all, that’s an eMesh level of burst dosage. But if it’s wispy and variable and comes and goes as you are forced to blindly pulse the battery button to make sure it’s still on, that’s APX Volt drudgery that never really finishes the whole dose, though this is somewhat better with the expensive bubbler mouthpiece that falls off so easy.
The sweet spot is the Yocan Orbit without the included swirling glass balls, with its quite dense vapor that then abruptly finishes. The crack pipe inspired The Machine comes in last, though is itself a big step up from an oil burner pipe.
Here is steady output about five seconds past initiation of visible vapor flow:
The superiority of the Orbit is by specific design where their silicone fan disk comes right down and seals against the top of the quartz cup, so all air sucked out must pass down through the airflow torquing fan channels into the cup, whereas the Volt has only passive air flow past instead of into the cup.
Bad airflow design is why the Volt is notorious for burning DMT, in that it requires excess heating to get much vapor rising up into the passive airstream flowing past instead of into the cup so air never pushes down into the cup to create active vaporization.
In fact, it’s even worse when you realize the Volt blocks airflow by using a dead end tube mouthpiece with a mere single side slot in it! No wonder you are forced to actually boil your DMT right to the very edge of decomposition to get vaping to happen.
It’s quite fun and in fact useful that the Orbit uses a thin round wire coil that glows bright orange since it’s rather hard to notice if the Volt is still heating or else has timed out. The Volt also has a 0.4 ohm coil but doesn’t glow at all at lower voltages and at the top voltage you can still hardly see it glow since the cup is surrounded by a thick copper cage.
The Volt’s flat ribbon coil is bonded to the glass cup bottom like a transistor so transfers its heat too well to visibly glow even at moderate power.
Top power is 40W for the Orbit or 34W for the Volt but since the Orbit coil is a thin round wire that’s rather short, standing naked in air below the cup, it lights up like an Edison bulb even on the lowest setting of only 29W. Direct eMesh constant wattage settings are typically only 15-20 W but the DMT is on the heating element itself so there’s no thermal barrier at all.
The Orbit spinning glass balls actually hinder the process because the centrifugal effect along the slightly curved and undulated wall of the cup make the pair of spinning balls rise a millimeter or two above the bottom and this retains by capillary action the last portion of the thin melted DMT, alas uselessly out of reach of the hot bottom so vaping stops early whereas without the balls the vortex of guided airflow pushing down slides the last droplets of DMT back to the hot cup bottom, something completely absent in the APX Volt design. The harder you suck vapor up out the mouthpiece, the stronger the downward tornado vortex into the cup, like how Dyson vacuum cleaners work so well.
Mere wind speed has great effects on water pool evaporation way below the boiling point and so a guided super fast spinning vortex in a vaporizer cup will greatly enhance evaporation too. Since the flowing air temperature cannot sustain a gas state, you get droplets of vapor as the immediate condensed result.
The Volt black painted copper cage has much more thermal mass than the thin glass cup inside it, and the cage starts cold, another reason you are forced to practically boil DMT into harsh bitter decomposition to get anything out of the Volt. You must superheat the cup center just to reach mass condensation above by heating the entire metal cage, impossibly, then destructively.