Here's a question we saw posed on a very popular vaporizer forum the other day in regards to the portable Vaporbrothers vaporizer, Dabbler Vape-Pen:
"What's the word on putting these heaters on different units? Are they meant exclusively for the Dabbler body or are they like most vape pens, where only the volt and threading matter?"
Here is the response from Vaporbrothers to the question:
"My take is that it's risky to match a Dabbler heater with a bare battery from someone else. Dabbler's battery is microprocessor controlled and matched to the heater. Blowing up your heater on another battery is not covered by our warranty. Vice versa with the battery."
And here is VaporWarehouse's answer to that question:
"It is probably not a good idea and we have to agree with what Vaporbrothers said."
We've been experimenting at the Warehouse recently with just that very question and the results haven't been pretty. While you will not necessarily blow up your heater on another battery, they can easily kill your heater. What our experiments have shown us is that by using another brand battery, in our case VaporCone, the tip of the battery pushes up the center contact of the Dabbler Heater. If the center contact gets pushed up too far, the silicone ring rises above it and prevents the battery from making contact, rendering the Dabbler heater useless.
While the Dabbler may be priced higher than some of the other brands, there is reason for that higher price tag. When Vaporbrothers partnered up with Vape-Pen to produce the Dabbler, the principle engineer for the DaVinci Ascent portable vaporizer custom designed the microprocessor in the battery. This sets the Vaporbrothers Dabbler vaporizer apart from other pen vapes that are really just rebranded bases.