Minimum Alcohol % Needed to Dissolve Cannabinoids

Bud_Babe

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Chris Edward said:
The thing about the portable testers, like tCheck and MyDx is that they compare your results with what they have in their database and then what gets displayed back to you is "the closest match", which in my opinion is useless because the specs for the strain aren't static. Even two or more samples from the same plant can have drastically different results.

The major differences between the two testers are that MyDx costs like $800 and the little test inserts are like $2 (but I think you can do 2 tests per insert) and the $70 sensor needs to be replaced every 6 months.

The tCheck is like $280, plus another $200 for the concentrate tester, the test insert is reusable, I don't believe there is a replaceable sensor, but there is a hidden $30 a month subscription fee otherwise the tester will just give you a Compound By Volume (CBV) value, which is all the cannabinoids combined and is totally useless, so they know you will pay the $30 a month so you can see how much THC and CBD you have.
I believe the tCheck 1 used to have you mix either the flowers or concentrate into some solvent and then put it in the sample tray, but now in the tCheck 2 model this is a $200 add-on.

One tester that has mostly been overlooked, is the SCiO, which is $300 and will test pretty much anything over about 1%.
The company claims the spectrometer wavelength isn't set up to test for cannabinoids, but I have read about how some folks have used it, though there isn't much available.
You see SCiO charges a small fortune for their development license ($800), which is totally stupid because the entire platform of their tester relies on third party apps and so SCiO is penalizing those who want to showcase the potential of the product.
It's bad business logic, because no one is going to spend $300 to buy the damn thing if all they can do with it is test the brix value of tomatoes or do simple manual programs that can tell the difference between obviously different objects.
Either that or it is some dick move to keep the product as some "elite commodity", which is great way to go out of business.

There are a few open source spectrometer projects, but I haven't been able to take the time to find one that is decent.
One day I would like to build one of these, if anything just to play around with it.

The tCheck is better then some of the other testers I have seen which are these overblown briefcase sized versions of the pocket spectrometers and have price tags that are in the (tens of) thousands and even some of those give you a "closest match..."

Anyway, I am sorry to go off on some tangent about the testers, but if there could be a meter that combined the best of the tCheck with the best of the MyDx, then that would be worth $800 or so...

In closing, here's a tester that will set you back almost $24,000 and requires about $100 a month in maintenance costs.
https://alliedscientificpro.com/shop/product/cannabis-thc-cbd-smart-analyzer-luminarytm-beacon-21342
This one at least gives you an actual measurement and not "the closest match."
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Do you own either the MyDX or the tCheck?
 
Bud_Babe

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Chris Edward said:
No, but I have looked into them extensively because I would like to have a way of testing that doesn't require sending samples off to a lab.

Why, do you own either of them?
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I do own the tCheck (haven't used the MyDX yet) and IMO it works great, especially for testing flower. There is a bit of a learning curve to it, but their customer service is pretty good about helping whenever I was having trouble using it.
 
Chris Edward

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Bud_Babe said:
I do own the tCheck (haven't used the MyDX yet) and IMO it works great, especially for testing flower. There is a bit of a learning curve to it, but their customer service is pretty good about helping whenever I was having trouble using it.
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Of all of the testers, I like the tCheck the most, but it's that subscription fee that I just can't get past...
I am such a cheapskate...
 
Chris Edward

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Bud_Babe said:
??? AFAIK there is no subscription fee. I've only had to pay for the device and the flower kit
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When you do a test, does it provide you with a "CBV" or a breakdown of both THC and CBD?
If you could show a screen shot that would awesome, but I understand if you don't want to.

The reason I ask is because previous versions used to only provide a combined cannabinoid read out "CBV" and if you wanted to know specifics you had to pay extra for a subscription.
I have looked on their website and they reference CBV and individual cannabinoids (THC, CBD, THCA, CBDA), as if the meter now can select between all of these without requiring a membership fee, but the only screen shots show CBV.
If the unit now provides individual cannabinoid readings without the pesky membership fee then the $250 price tag is not bad.
They're having a 15% sale right now so including shipping and tax it comes out to just under $250.

Thanks
 
Bud_Babe

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Chris Edward said:
When you do a test, does it provide you with a "CBV" or a breakdown of both THC and CBD?
If you could show a screen shot that would awesome, but I understand if you don't want to.

The reason I ask is because previous versions used to only provide a combined cannabinoid read out "CBV" and if you wanted to know specifics you had to pay extra for a subscription.
I have looked on their website and they reference CBV and individual cannabinoids (THC, CBD, THCA, CBDA) as if the meter now can select between all of these without requiring a membership fee, but the only show CBV.
If the unit now provides individual cannabinoid readings without the pesky membership fee then the $250 price tag is not bad.
They're having a 15% sale right now so including shipping and tax it comes out to just under $250.

Thanks
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Sorry for not answering sooner! I'll come back later and add the screenshot so you can see, but from what I can see the results screen is pretty much the same as shown on the website.

The device will read for the dominant cannabinoid, i.e., if your infusion is THC dominant, it will read for THC; if it's dominant in CBD, it will read for CBD. The oil/alcohol/butter settings can measure THC, CBD and THCa (if you choose the "not decarbed" option). While it doesn't read for CBDa per se, because THCa and CBDa looks the same reading for THCa in a CBD dominant sample will essentially give you a CBDa reading.

I don't really have a problem with that since the amount of the other cannabinoid is usually so minuscule (0-2%), that after decarbing and infusion almost none of it is left (at least not enough to make a noticeable difference to me).
 
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