½" pipe mod v 1.0

[crazyhorse]

This for an 801 atomizer and is made out of a 2¾" piece of ½" copper pipe and pipe caps. The battery is a PCB protected Trustfire 14500 900 mAh (AA size). The copper body makes the negative side and the positive terminal of the battery makes direct contact with a #10 brass machine screw set into a ratshack ¼" phone jack (247-0252). I used a ratshack submini pushbutton switch (275-1571).

Other components include some copper coax sheathing (fur) used to make the contact with the body, a battery spring, a half-inch of small gauge wire, wire insulation for the positive terminal, a section of the tip from an old tube of caulk and hot glue.

The battery spring sits on the caulk tube tip and the wire soldered to it feeds through a hole in the side of the tip and is soldered to one side of the switch. The copper fur is soldered to the other side of the switch and makes contact with the body from there.

The battery is a very snug fit within the pipe but shakes out without too much difficulty when an end cap is twisted off. A pipe of ¼ to ½ inch shorter length could be made to work.

[500KV]

Good job CH.
That took some doing to get the spring insulated didn't it?
Does it produce pretty well?

[crazyhorse]

Finding some junk to use for spring mount/insulation that doesn't interfere with the switch was a genuine PITA.

It produces very well. There's no comparison to standard batteries but the best thing is after puffing on it for maybe five hours, the battery still reads 4.03v.

[EldarKinSlayer]

How is this set up holding up, and is there a possibility of More pictures, especially the guts?

[crazyhorse]

It's doing just fine. My wife has taken possession of it and uses it every day.

I'll take some gutshots later but with the tiny size limitation for uploaded pictures, they'll probably be useless.

[Paradiso]

This is really nice. My next project is to create a mod with an 18650 battery where the casing is as small as possible.

For images, just google "Free image hosting", there are a billion sites out there. Then you can upload your pics full size and link to them in your post.

[crazyhorse]

Good idea Paradiso. I suppose I can overcome laziness and set up an image site. Any that you particularly like?

If my wife ever puts her copper stick down long enough, I'll get some detailed pictures taken.