BTI temps are determined on a 0.1 g dab. This shifts that published number for the dab actually in front of you, using the Terpseeker factor stack to set how sensitive your setup is to load size.
Your dab
Nail
Insert
Set your heat to
540°F
Range 529 to 551°F
F 1.000 · raw +0.0°F
This runs the Terpseeker factor stack as a sensitivity rather than as an absolute temperature, so the published BTI number stays the source of truth and the result matches the listing exactly at 0.1 g.
F = N x A x M x T x H raw = 110 x F x (m - 0.1) delta = round(raw / 5) * 5 temp = BTI + delta band = temp +/- 2%
N is nail efficiency, A insert geometry, M insert material, T surface texture, H whether the insert was heated with the nail, and m your dab mass in grams. Slope is 110 °F per unit of efficiency.
Insert geometry on the measured setting uses the surface area formulas, with A = 1 + (SA / SA_ref - 1) / 20. A pearl references 60 mm² and a pillar 230 mm².
Because the factors scale the sensitivity rather than the temperature itself, an efficient setup moves further per 0.05 g than a baseline bucket does. A diamond insert roughly doubles that movement without pushing the result through the model's 430 °F floor, which is what happens when the same multiplier is applied to an absolute temperature.
Two coefficients are missing from the source model. Wishing Well has no nail efficiency, and Tower is absent from the nail table despite being one of the four BTI style codes. Both are surfaced rather than filled with a guess.
Prototype on Joe's Terpseeker model. Not final BTI guidance.