Yo teetee! Concentrates and vaping is my bag, my everyday.
Rosin and dab/vaping is the perfect terps and taste. I have spent a couple years looking into the different methods of vaping in a clean, healthy and safe way. Too many people fuck about with chemicals and don't know enough about them... I am not a scientist so i'm not going to even go down that road..
I have tried a lot of the methods of creating extract... but i always come back to rosin! Including BHO/TINCTURE/RSO blablalbla... For me...there is something about a low temp dab that nothing can replicate...
I have made vape oils mixed with both vg and pg successfully but personally it takes too much away from the taste smell and feel of the thing we love... getting high! After researching and trying several times, wasting loads of weed i had bought!
So then i moved onto making cartridges etc using PG and PEG which worked fine.
If you have the right cartridge with the right wick you only need to use 3 or 4 drops of PEG400 per gram of concentrate. I am working on a method to load into cartridges that requires no PG and PEG. Jungleboys have just cracked it and i will soon muahahaha. lol. I just need to reverse engineer one of their carts. They dont even use terps, it's the extraction that differs.
Burning PG or PEG at over 450 fahrenheit or some where around there turns it into formaldehyde... Which isn't an issue when vaping because like you said you just use a weaker battery and vape on 11w max. I do this a lot, it is perfect to take with you to places where you cant blaze as openly as we would like to or if i stay in a hotel with the Mrs if we go away
Ths is my second choice though for vaping...
I would recommend a cartridge of 0.5/1ml capacity for vaping VERY THICK OILS with a 510 connection thread.
Use a stick battery that has a max wattage of about 15W so you dont burn out the coil or make formaldehyde lol. These tend to be thin and wattage is adjusted through clicking the button repeatedly or in a certain manner.
I love vaping dry herb and i don't think there is anything better than just twisting up a pure green J... when i do... i use the volcano by storz and bickel.
Ok so i have my own press, it has a max capacity of 4 tonnes of pressure but i never exceed 2... i press at about 70-90 degrees centigrade. Its the plates and the knowledge of the user that do the magic. Once you start looking into it, squishing rosin is an art form in itself. Terp, colours, everything is effected by temps and pressure.
You can do well with straighteners but you can only squish about 0.5g at a time and you have to separate the plant matter off the parchment afterwards... if you pick the buds apart with your fingers and then ball them up in the palms of your hand i found this was the best method... essentially you are exposing all of the undisturbed trichomes inside the bud so when they hit heat and pressure they instantly sizzle and the rosin builds up into a stream... i have found... Remember A grade in = A grade out. I tend to yield about 31% with great bud... or bud i have grown myself... never thought i would say that!!!!!
I think to just see what the fuss is about... skip the straighteners to save getting bunt hands and get yourself a rosin press and some 160micro squish bags... I use anything from 120-160 micron for flower as thiis is best for yield and go down the micron scale gradually, meaning the mesh gets finer. There is a link below bro.
https://www.theju1cebox.com/If you like it... then afterwards look at getting a more comprehensive press theres loads online.
I use the Dazzvape Melter Pen to melt my concentrates. I have bought the ceramic coils for it which you have to buy separately and i wont be using anything else for a LONGLONG time!! They are self cleaning and this device is the shit!!
I cant find a good link but google... Dazzvape melter im sure you will find it. Its not that pricey either!
Squishing kief is how you make THCA crystals which is 99.99% THC. It is completely flavourless and odorless and you can dissolve it into anything once you have it. Amazing stuff! I will do a tutorial on squishing kief in due course i just have to build up enough of it to be able to handle a fuck up!
Its a range of about 20 presses of the same material at different pressure and temperatures to slowly tease it out of the kief. A true art!
Bottom line...
If you want the stone of a doob, stick to that because dry herb vaporizers will never compare... But DO switch to vaping for concentrates and it is going to open up a whole new level of HIGH for you... When i dab 0.5g in one go... MATE>>>>>>
i have seen 6 ft 6 monsters get put straight to bed... hahaha.
I hope this helps bro, finally i can return an iota of the knowledge you have given me. Forever grateful.