In their current state, wax pens are mostly “load as you go” which means they must be filled after ever 2-3 pulls. This is far different from e-cig vapes as they tend to use a tank design with some kind of wick. You can load many e-cigarette vapes for an entire day’s worth of juice, so why must you constantly load wax pens?
To maintain that delicious flavor
One of the only options for packing large quantities (half gram+) is the Miracle S coil, which has mixed reviews. While we’ve never tried it, we’d assume it isn’t going to be as flavorful as many other options out there. As you can see below the device does not appear to splatter and can quite easily handle an entire gram of wax.
Here’s a decent example from the Waxpen subreddit, which provides some insight into people’s preferences for the device:
What does it taste like after 2/3 is gone?
As the favor goes down hill you turn up the wattage and you just have fun ripping as hard as you can. I don’t care about the flavor when I’m trying to suffocate myself but when I want to taste a dab through a microscope I load it one at a time
They leak if you overload them
Though we do not have any insight on the actual design of the original wax pens, most coil designs have been lifted and adapted from e-cigarette coils. For some reason, the standard is set on using bottom airflow to likely provide the most direct hit. While products such as the Top Airflow Sai with the Titanium Bucket have moved from that to a sealed cup, it will still leak and splatter if overloaded.
Another easy example is that *all* exposed ceramic donut atomizers have airflow holes on the bottom below the donut. When you overload these, the product runs right down into the base, making a terrible mess. These are design flaws which will be fixed over time.
They’re new products
Finally this is the biggest point of them all. These are products that cannabis enthusiasts built in their own time and wanted to solve a problem. The best thing is that there is still a lot of the problem to be solved. Looking forward we can see that leak-proof, *glue free* bowls will exist (more on the glue in a future post…) but we’re not quite there yet. Matt from Divine Tribe has posted images of the Divine Crossing V4 and you can instantly see the differences. Remember the photo above? Those are the V3 donuts with the casing – now take a look at the V4 and how they’ve been better implemented into the housing:
Because we have a long way to go, follow Waxpen.net for the most updates on Waxpen products and developments.