Glossary · Vaporizers & Hardware
Convection Heating
Convection vaporizers heat air, and the draw pulls that hot air through the flower — nothing cooks between puffs, which enables on-demand use and the category’s best flavor, especially early in a bowl. Costs: more complex hardware, higher prices, often a learning curve of draw technique, and in some designs a harder pull. Most modern devices are honestly hybrids — conductive chambers with convective airflow — so treat “pure convection” marketing as a spectrum claim. The upgrade logic mirrors flower tiers: convection is the refinement lane; buy it when flavor is the thing you can name wanting.
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