IMR or PROTECTED batteries in VV's?

McAldo;7348884 said:

You can use both but IMR will give you better performance, meaning you are not going to get a wimpy vape when the battery is partially depleted and with particularly challenging resistance atties.

The general advice is to get AW IMR, which are rebranded high quality cells, but expensive.
A good, perhaps better, and cheaper alternative are EFEST

The difference between protected and imr is also that IMR have no internal mechanism preventing discharging too much the battery, which can lead to failure or even to the battery going thermal runaway.

Your lavatube, and other vv mods, has an internal protection which will prevent you from firing if the battery is too depleted.
Mechanical mods have no protection so you are generally better off using protected batteries on those.
Your lavatube allows to check for battery charge (voltage) by pressing 5 times the fire button.
4.2 means fully charged, 3.6 is time to recharge, anything under 3.4 and you might be damaging the cell. If you want to maximise battery life, never store them for long completely discharged.


Quality wise, a good battery is one that will offer the declared mha capacity in intensive applications as using it with your lavatube.
batteries claiming huge capacity and costing just a few bucks are normally a scam, they can only provide that when drawing very little energy for a long time, on your lavatube that 3000 mha will end up being 300 perhaps.
Avoiding any battery with 'fire' in the name is a good starting point to avoid bummers, but trustfire charger are good, just, not their batteries

Hope this helps, happy vaping

PS: senybor are an example of good protected batteries (actually panasonic) which will give performance comparable to IMR, and cheaper too, but they are too long to fit your lavatube.
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