You are definitely not getting that wrong and with all this talk of vaporizers and bags, I'll just have to do another bag. Oh, woe is me. Yup, I smoke joints on the golf course and a bong at home, of which I need a new one desperately. Every once in a while I like a few good bong rips, generally I smoke my hash from a bong. I also have a little one hitter glass spoon. I'll smoke a can if need be.
Back to the vape...which also reminds me, can anyone in europe get this vaporizer there? It's a Digi-Vapor VP500. It is not the clear globe whip one, it is a digital machine that kinds sits lengthwise on the table. I'll post a pic.
Anyway you are correct, supposedly the weed doesn't burn it just heats the thc to a vapor. I can only speak for my machine, I can run it at 330 degrees and if the weed is fresh you can't see through the bag and you ARE going to cough your lungs up. If the weed has been jarred for four or more weeks, I turn the heat up to 335. As the heat increases the smoke gets thicker but to me the best taste is when you are heating the bud just enough to vaporize it and not really heat it up till you can taste it's almost burning. I see people running their machines at three sixty and I wonder why? Are they that inefficient? As a matter of fact I think in that second pic the temp is reading 324.