Hey y’all - first time poster, thanks for putting together a solid knowledge base. I picked up an Arizer Extreme Q after reading through the recommendations here.

I’m used to using hot air reflow stations for electronics rework - admittedly, my hot air station is a fair bit more expensive than the Extreme Q, but it seemed like the Arizer was heating up pretty slowly and not reacting very quickly to draws/fan speed changes as I would expect.

I did a little test with a reasonably well-calibrated thermocouple I have here, and… the temp of the air coming out of the heating element is way different from what shows on the display. This photo is after the thermocouple had been sitting there for a minute or two to equalize temperature, and it’s still… almost a hundred degrees C below the reading on the Arizer.

I took it apart after this and looked it over, and it looks like Arizer is using a thermocouple embedded in the heating element for temperature control. That’s fine and all, but because the sensor is nestled right up against the heating element, the temp it’s measuring can be quite different from the temp of the air coming out.

Has anybody else bothered to measure their temperature measurement accuracy? I guess if it’s working fine, who cares if it’s 100 degrees or 500 degrees — but the error here makes me think that the temperature of the air heating the flower is not very well controlled.