Making a plug in adapter to eliminate the battery

[robw]

I was fishing around in my box of power adapters, and found a plug that out puts 3.7v at 350ma.

I read the side of my battery and it says 3.7v and is rated for 900 maH which stands for milli amp hours.

What im wondering is what is the max mA the atomizer is rated for?

I want to plug this adapter right into the wall and use clips to run it to my dse601

[trog100]

the atomizer can take (needs) 1 amp.. your power adapter isnt powerfull enough.. u needs a 750 ma one minimum..

a PC usb socket also isnt powerfull enough even thow some people are useing them.. they are rated a max of 500 ma..

your pipe battery could put out 5 amps if u want it to.. if decent performance is wanted best to stick to the battery..

also being as the screwdriver battery (they cost bugger all) would fit your pipe there is no valid reason to wire yourself to the wall.. at least i cant see one..

trog

[robw]

Ok sounds good. Do you know how to check what amps are coming off the battery with a multimeter?

[trog100]

the best way of checking battery condition is a voltmeter.. part of the multimeter functions..

a fresh of charge cell should read 4.2 volts.. a pipe battery should hold around 4 volts even under load for quite some time.. when the battery gets down to say 3.6 volts its ready for a recharge.. the volt rating (3.6/7) on the side is nonsense

a pipe atomizer draws about 1 amp.. we used to use the pipes.. the batteries out lived the pipes several time over.. pipes work nice but atomizers wear out and the pipe is finished.. chinese madness throwing such a nice thing away cos the cost nothing heater coil/wick part has died..

if your pipe (as i suspect) is going wimpy.. its dead.. nothing to be done.. pipe atomizers dont last any longer than any other atomizer..

an amp-meter goes inline... a volt-meter bridges the positive and negative terminals..

there is no max rating for the heater coil.. the more volts u feed thru it the brighter it glows.. 4 volts is nice.. four volts equals a fresh off charge battery.. with a big battery this will hold for quite some time..

trog

[robw]

if your pipe (as i suspect) is going wimpy.. its dead.. nothing to be done.. pipe atomizers dont last any longer than any other atomizer..

It cant be, because when I use a fresh battery it is fine. I suspect as you said the amp draw is to high for the battery.

From the little I know of batteries, they can supply the same volts consistently, but as the charge diminishes the amps or in this case milliamps decreases. I feel that since my multimeter reads 4 volts on what apparently is a battery in need of charge that this is the case. The 901 has a smaller atomizer and probably requires less amperage than the atomizer in the 601 which is indeed twice as large. I think the desire to fit the pipe bowl with a standard battery size is the design flaw in the pipe.

The USB would not work as you pointed out if the amperage is to low. The only solution for someone who wants to hard wire the power to the pipe is to build a dc adapter that provides the proper amperage. I wish I knew how to use my multimeter so I could see what amperage is being generated by a fresh off the charger battery.

[trog100]

if u get poor performance for one battery chuck it away.. they can fail to deliver the needed current without a voltage drop.. u have just conducted a simple test and proved one of your batteries is knackered bin it they cost nothing to replace..

we p-ssed about with ten pipes before deciding they are not much use..

the way it works... as an atomizer starts to fail it does two things.. one is it simply put out less vapour the other is it gets very critical as to its liquid wetness factor..

when its new it blasts away and dosnt give a sh-t so to speak.. as it ages it becomes very critical to its liquid wetness factor.. get it just right and it works.. get it just wrong and it dosnt work..

these things are the work of the devil dude.. put on this planet to drive us mad.. he he he

your pipe is f-cked dude.. when they reach the stage they need messing about with they are f-cked..

trust the voice of mucho mucho experience and pissing about with these things or dont.. its up to u.. says he holding his cross up high..

trog

ps... a good pipe battery is capable of putting out enough current to power six e pipes all at once.. i have had them putting out 9 amps.. thats enough to power a car headlight.. they wont do it for long but they can do it..

[trog100]

just to add the power draw on a pipe atomizer is not a lot different than on a 901 atomizer..

now being as the power draw is roughly the same but the pipe battery is six times the size of the 901 battery u might get some idea why the small tubed e cig 130 mah battery dosnt work that well for long..

it is dong the equivalent of powering six pipes from a capacity to current draw point of view.. in short a device designed by people who dont care how long the battery lives..

another kind of chinese madness just a different one.. as long as we buy them thats all the little buggers care about..

trog