Salutations LazyLathe,
There's not much going on lately so i'll take the questionaire!
What is your price limit?
So far the limit has been this, if i can manage to make a proper preliminary evaluation out of memory alone:
HerbalAire + Arizer V-Tower + VaporGenie ~ 1500 $
More like 2000 $ after accounting for butane lighters and many other 3rd-party accessories...
Initially i was expecting to get even at 315 $ CAD, all fees paid, then i gradually discovered i'd need to find/develop an
adapted alternative all by myself, simply because no ready-made commercially-available solution seemed inclusive enough.
Do you want a portable or desktop version?
Apparently i'm currently aiming for a 2-parts "Bi-Energy" transformer!... Table-top using electro-magnetic
Induction Heat to access a more precise pulsed/dosage method, single-hand operation, bio-feedback, etc., then "Plan-B" where "B" stands for "Butane", as a "fall-back" option.
Conduction or convection or mixed?
Most definitely mixed! Conductive/radiative heat for Pre-Heating, then convection for the final act. Zero baking/ovenizing ideally, never slow.
Is butane powered a candidate?
Yes, actually i depend on it.

Beyond that total abstinence awaits me again!
Hopefully someday guys like me will obtain the benefits without any comet dust ingestion. There's no doubt in my mind that IH technology would handle this challenge just fine (and leave competition far behind), though looking at past evidence i fear i won't be among those who can buy it for less than 315 $ CAD in any close future.
There are lots of vapes out there and a lot of them are not good...
Well, i learned (the hard way) how to classify vaporizers depending on their
Release/Transport Agent and it became quite obvious from my standpoint there's still too little room for my definition of inclusivity (...), especially with mercantile needs in a designer's balance.
Perhaps customers should start their own co-op or something!...
On another hand
Egzoset is plenty of proof since 2010 (...) that the internet bottleneck of planet cannabis ain't very different from that of planet Itnoc, but that's quite another topic. Lets simply argue that cooperation is no power-driver in a fragmented "community" as ours, meanwhile prohibition continues to make advances (the environmental
No. 44 ban law in Qc/Canada on e-Cigs AND
vaporizers besides smoked tobacco/nicotine, for example - next they'll "protect" us from the "dangers" of second-hand fart i guess!)... In other words even if/when nearly-ideal healthwise vaporizers become a reality it still will be forbiden to share the fun publicly - by law.
Anyway, usually what's inside the device comes late if not last all too often. Yet this is where a new vaporist should begin his search, with
the fundamentals inside. But quite frankly i'm under the impression that too few manufacturers can afford to boldly valorize their "know-how" with sufficiently convincing hard facts. Worse, plenty of bad apples keep surrounding the few good ones and don't count on governments to fix that as it only supports inflicting more negative consequences via new prohibitionist laws - now a done deal in my province.
Spend a bit more and buy quality, once.
YMMV, there are implementations that can never claim being the greatest considering their corresponding concept was fundamentally flawed at the blue-prints stage. Not to mention i'm allergic to "black-box" designs.
M'well, thanks for those long minutes reflecting on my own personal vaporist venture. In retrospective the one thing that felt even more rare/priceless than a "good" vaporizer was the opportunity to truly dialog on a 1-to-1 basis, fully focussed on a common topic: healthy cannabic vaporization.
Good day, have fun!!
