Hey guys, I was curious how long you can make a silicon whip before it gets too hard to pull on or collapses? Me and my buddies just got an extreme q. I tried hooking it up to our bubbler with the spare 18mm joint and its pretty awesome! You can turn the temps up pretty much as high as you want, and if you turn the fan on it makes it easier to pull but just barely doesn't cause bubbles. So you don't have to worry about turning it off. I was curious if we could keep up the whole pass the piece around the room dynamic and hear less of the fan by setting up the extreme q inside my coffee table. Drill a hole in the side, and put a 10 or 20ft whip through it so the piece could reach anywhere in the room. You can also fill bags up through the whip so there's no need to open the table after packing it.
There is a factor of cooling in the whip. The longer the whip, the more vapour can cool and condense inside the whip before consumption.
You're going to run into the issue that you have to clear the whole system of stale air first before you get any vapour. Second you will have vapour starting to condense in the tube. I'd say that a 10' whip would be okay but any longer you're going to be generating some waste and losing useablility.
I'd say it depends entirely on the strength of your lungs. The longer the whip the nastier and less potent the hit becomes.