My shot at a review.
TL;DR The Divine Crossing Generation 2 dry herb atomizer, as sold by ineedhemp.com is an excellent device, in my opinion. With its 510-threaded base, and suggested power in the low 30 watts, there are plenty of box mods that can be used with it. I'm using an Eleaf iStick Pico.
I have not experimented with higher wattages, yet, but 35 watts of pulsing power resulted in good vapor production and a slammin' hit.
Also, at 35 watts the abv looks similar to what I get with my DynaVap VapCap and Haze Dual V3. That color is a rich, dark, even brown. I have not combusted with the Gen 2. (Edit: Combustion occurred when two people were using the Gen 2 Monday morning.)
Further, the Gen 2's immediate effects fly in the face of my high tolerance. The VapCap and Haze have lost their ability to affect me immediately.
The Divine Crossing Generation 2 dry herb atomizer is now my go-to when it comes to consuming dry herbs.
Full write-up
20170209
The Divine Crossing Generation 2 dry herb atomizer arrived Thursday, Feb. 9, along with an Eleaf iStick Pico 75-watt box mod, and a Sony VTC6 battery.
The Gen 2 comes in a presentation box with a screwdriver, spare screws, a wire brush, and a tool. It cost $24 for the early birds.
I disassembled the Gen 2 so it could be cleaned in hot soapy water. Normally, I use alcohol for initial cleanings to remove manufacturing leftovers, but I'd like to move away from alcohol.
The Gen 2 has an atomizer base quite similar to that found on the Divine Crossing v3 ceramic rebuildable atomizer. So after removing the posts set screws I gently pulled on the ceramic cup, but it did not want to move. Because I was already aware that there are no spare heaters available for the Gen 2 (it's the first batch of the device, I'm told), I decided to not pull up any more than I had already done.
Not wanting to break the coil, and seeing that I had no extra coils, I cleaned the heater with a cotton swab dipped in alcohol.
I really just wanted to try the device because around these parts dry herb vaporizer attys don't seem popular, at least not as popular as purpose-specific vapes. Also, and I could be wrong, but some of the remarks about dry herb vape attys seem to be saying that, in general, they're not worth buying because they either just don't work, or they combust the product.
My first dry herb vape was a Randy's Zipp that I bought locally at a brick and mortar. Having had no other vape to compare it to at the time, the Randy's did its job passably until it refused to charge anymore. I broke open the device only to find its battery swimming in its sealed envelope in some primordial ooze that smelled like acetone.
I have since bought a DynaVap VapCap and a Haze Dual V3. The DC Gen 2 is the first dry herb vape I've bought since the VapCap and Haze arrived on the same day in late August.
I've used the Gen 2 in wattage mode, and in TCR mode. The heater coil measures 0.74 ohm on the Pico. In wattage mode I set the Pico at 35 watts, push the fire button and let the oven heat up for 8 to 9 seconds before drawing on it while pulsing the fire button. These are the strongest hits I get, and they have what I consider to be an adequate amount of vapor. The Gen 2 has pretty good airflow.
In TCR mode, the Pico was set at TCR M1 300, 350 degrees and 33 watts. As suggested in the owner pamphlet, dry herb from a grinder was used. The oven was filled using the VapCap cap digger-outer, and gently tamped.
The third time I went to use it in TCR mode, the Gen 2 kicked the mod back to wattage.
(I didn't know it at the time, because I hadn't disassembled the heater/atomizer during initial cleaning, but there was an intermittent electrical open on a coil lead in one of the build deck posts. The affected lead is shorter than the other and, thus, isn't long enough to be held by its set screw. It looks like the build post holes are drilled pretty far down the posts as compared to the DC v3.)
After four hits the herb is still very much green. I'm guessing that I didn't let the Gen 2 get hot enough, though my hits were limited based on the increasing mouthpiece temperature. The Gen 2 comes with a silicone mouthpiece cover.
Being kicked out of TCR wasn't going to stop me from further using what I wanted to be an excellent, battery operated, 510-base, dry herb vaporizer.
I set the wattage at 35, and pulsed the fire button. The result was (my kind of dry herb vape) clouds, and flavor comparable to first hits on the VapCap and Haze. While not feeling any effects from the first four hits, the sought-after effects were almost immediate from hitting the Gen 2 at 35 pulsing watts of power, and letting the oven heat up.
Finally.
I checked the abv again, and it still had too much green. I dumped the VapCap into an abv container, and the Gen 2 abv into the VapCap.
20170210 Friday The question as yet unposed is, how does the Gen 2 compare to the VapCap and Haze in terms of effects? While I'm not necessarily qualified to discuss a vaporizer's efficiency, I am qualified to discuss and decide how the effects of using a given vaporizer affect me, and I really like the Gen 2's effects.
At this point the Gen 2 has been in my possession only 36 hours, but it seems clear to me that it's destined to become my go-to device.
20170211 Saturday afternoon/evening
I begin to notice changes in the Gen 2 resistance, though it is not being used. When I go to use it next, I get the dreaded "no atomizer" message. The first thing I do is check that the build post set screws are snug. They are. It's really at this point that I notice the holes on the deck posts are far lower on the posts than in the v3. Because of this, I'm forced to separate the heater/cup from the atomizer to see if one lead is loose, or if I tightened a set screw too much and cut a lead.
What I found was a shorter coil lead that lacked the crimp in it that it would normally have from being squeezed by a set screw. The other lead looks fine. (ineedhemp.com's Matt was made aware of my problem, and it's been solved.)
I already know there are no heaters available to buy separately.
My seemingly only solution is to use the Gen 2 heater/cup on my DC v3 CRA atomizer, but I'd also already been told that the two atomizer bases are not interchangeable despite their obvious similarity.
The Gen 2 cup would not fit into the posts, but one of my v3 cups did, so I now have a Gen 2 heater mounted on a v3 cup attached to the v3 atomizer. I went a step further and replaced the white Gen 2 body and mouthpiece with the v3's black ones.
The use of the black v3 parts leaves the heater opening just beneath the v3's mouthpiece dome, but it worked fine, and the v3 black parts don't get as hot as the stock Gen 2 parts. I'm guessing this is because of the close tolerances in the Gen 2. Using the v3 parts results in a gap between the heater and body.
20170212 Sunday midday
With a workaround for the Gen 2 coil lead in place, I returned the Pico to TCR, but this time I used the same settings as ineedhemp.com's Matt: TCR M1 350, 370 degrees, 33 watts.
It's a smoother and tastier hit than in wattage mode at 35, where I pulse that fire button, not letting up until I can feel the imminent heat.
I guess the most impressive, but completely unscientific, result of using the Gen 2 is, despite indulging more than once a day since early May, the Gen 2 effects hit me immediately, something the VapCap and Haze no longer do.
For immediate effects I'd been turning to concentrates. The Gen 2 just changed that. Now if I could just get it in a nonglossy black.
Finally, just a quick comment regarding the Eleaf iStick Pico. It feels and operates like an excellent box mod, and I like the size and number of features, but it cemented my dislike of having operating buttons on the bottom. I don't like the buttons on the bottom of my Tesla Stealth 40-watt mod, and now I'm convinced I'm correct in disliking them.