Harshest Hits EVER, Why?

I have a wooden-box, hands-free type vaporizer with glass whip. Ceramic heating element (supposedly). I set the digital temp to 185 degrees Celsius. Dry mid grade bud.

After 2 or 3 hits the smoke gets thicker and I take huge rips out of it. They are so insanely harsh, the pain and urge to cough are indescribable. I been smoking for a while so I know my lungs are used to it, I barely cough from grav-bongs.

Why are these vape hits so painful? Am I taking too big of a hit? Is the temperature too high? I just don't get why they are so harsh if they are supposed to be better for your lungs. Feedback appreciated.

Umm... I'm not sure why your getting this reaction... I've never coughed from a vape...

Capes are smooth and taste great...
what the fuck?

Maybe its to hot

yeah that'd be my guess, a little too hot.

its probably too hot. the box might be too big as well. my ones about the size of a jam jar. with the left over smoked material , it s literally only been steamed so it looks like its still worth smokin although all the smoking bits have gone

How brown is the weed after you vape it?

The fact that you say it's "Thick smoke" sounds like a red flag that you're burning your weed, not vaping it. Granted, I'm not vape expert, but that sounds reasonable. Set it lower...

Sounds like a Vapor Tech unit.


I had one and ended up giveing it away for a Vapor Brothers.


I liked the VT unit, but there are more accessories for the VB unit.


IF it is a Vapor Tech unit, the Display is in Celcius.


What we do is , Set it at 170 ( that is were THC is vaporized).


All you will see is Vapor, when you exhale your breath will look like it does on a cool morning. NOTHING SHOULD EVEN REMOTELY BE HARSH.


Take a few deep hits, Stir it take 2 or 3 more.

The weed should look tan or light brown at the end.

Put the used weed to the side and repeat.

If you fall on hard times, pull out the old weed and set the unit 180 and you can smoke off the old stuff till it gets dark. I personally dont get a light happy go lucky type High from this , I get a deep deep stone footed Elephant type from it, but it beats not getting stoned.

Chaotixxx - Hey, man. Did you ever get this problem fixed? I ask because I was considering buying the same vape from Ebay. It's this one, right?

I don't know, I'm having the same problem. I can take hits fine, I cough bad after taking hits with my light bulb vape but I can smoke a bowl and not cough at all. :wtf: Weird.

lightbulb vapes seem to make me cough something terrible. I can smoke pipes and bongs without coughing too bad as long as its good weed (not schwag). If it's schwag I cough horribly.

So this problem isn't specific to the this particular vaporizer? I hope not because it's a really great deal and seems similar enough to the more expensive box vapes. I wish I could get some more opinions from people who've used it. So far, all I have is Chaotixxx telling us it made him cough his lungs out. I realize going with a higher end model would be a safer choice, but if it's indeed identical to the Vapor Bros. brand, for instance, why pay more?

i cough on vaps too, well i gotta home made light bulb vap, i think its cuz i burn the weed cuz sometimes i dont cough...but on the "big" hits i tihnk i leave the lighter on there too long and it burns it

after the vape heats to a warm point (you can look at the glass piece before the cyramic tip, it will be orange) turn it down almost all the way so it's just barely on ,if your pack bowls to thick it or burn weed you will just smoke it instead instead of vaping it. I smoked one for the first time the other day and we messed up on the first hit because we forgot to turn it down, after we fixed it, it was the best smoking experience of my life.

After vaping some new herbage that isn't as dry as the last round I am not coughing on this stuff. :jointsmile:

Vaping schwagg is pointless in my opinion. Just smoke it. I like the taste that good nugs give off from my mate's volcano... I wish I owned a vape, but I just am literally too lazy to order one or run down to the headshop and pick one up... I just walk down the hall to my mate's room in the house... haha.

Turn the heat down while vaping- if it gets too hot and turns very dark brown or black, you are probably burning it rather than vaporizing.

We were having the problem with coughing also. We had been running our Volc on 6.5. I read here that we should turn it down so I set it on 4.5 and every thing's great. Same great high (maybe better) and no coughing.