I’ve been trying to help kick start this community off. This is my first time really posting, I was always a lurker. I was trying to think of things I could post about daily and was planning to do an in-depth series of guides on ball vapes(which I will continue to generate). The problem I have with that is ball vapes are still very new, with them still pretty early in development there many dents to hammer out. They don’t appeal to everyone and it’s 100% understandable, I was turned off by the complexity when I first saw them and pretty much wrote them off (glad I looked back into them though). So I wanted to try to throw posts up on a variety of dry herb vaporizering topics, this one will appeal to people who want a heavy hitter ball vape adjacent device without any of the downsides of ball vapes. The Vapor Brothers VB1.5 I DON’T OWN THIS DEVICE
At a Glance
- Easy setup, plug-N-play whip desktop vape
+Safe, very shielded from burning anything
- Pure convective heating
+Can leave on all day
- Reliability, vapor brothers has been around forever and make a good product
+3 ball materials (zirconia, alumina, or boro glass) and 2 ball size options 3 or 4mm
+Can retrofit VB1.0
-Hits very hard but not as hard as a ball vape
-once you select your material it doesn’t look easy to change it out
-Can’t set exact temp, uses dial instead
-Can’t have a portable head, will be entirely desktop
This is basically just the OG Vapor Brothers desktop but they changed the steam to include balls that you choose (see above for materials/size) so it seems like a hybrid ball vape/desktop device. Reviews seem solid, people report it hits almost as hard as ball vapes. This seems like a great middle ground bridging desktop and ball vapes, unlike ball vapes though this is a plug and play device with little to no safety concerns comparatively. It looks like you can pick them up for around $300 depending on what you choose, not a bad price point imo. You could get cheaper ballers but you could also get way more expensive ones. They can also retrofit an old VB1.0 and convert it to the VB1.5 for $125 which I thought was pretty neat. I don’t think the stems/balls can be easily changed out but I could be dead wrong on that and of course no things that are for ball vapes will work with this. The only other downside I see to this is no precise temp control, other than this looks like a phenomenal device!
Image from vaporbrothers.com/VB15
I didn’t realize Vapor Brothers was still around, these are old school.
While I don’t think I would actively recommend people over to something like VB today, it is cool that an original innovator in the vape space is still operating today.
Yeah I kinda had the same thoughts when I saw it but I do think it’s a solid desktop model. I’m really curious how hard it hits, I used the classic VB1 years ago and liked it.
