Battery question?

[Thediscoranger]

So how many charges do most battery's have before they start to go bad? Or when there will be like a slight drop in performance? Thanks guys!

 

[Ryedan]

Not all charges are the same. If you discharge your batts to say 3.3 volts each time (no load), which is close to completely discharged, and then recharge you will probably get around 300 charges out of them. If you recharge them at around 3.7V, when they have around 40% left, you'll probably get around 1,000 charge cycles out of them. Here's a page from Battery University that gives a lot more information on it all.

Performance drops slightly with every charge cycle. Other things in addition to how low you discharge your batts have a big impact on battery life also. The more amps you draw, the higher the temperature during use and charge, the quicker you charge them, the quicker they will age.

 

[Thediscoranger]

Would all this matter in a my sigelie 100w? Or just in a mech mod?

 

[Ryedan]

The more the battery degrades, the lower the max amp draw becomes and the less time you'll get between charges.

In a regulated mod you'll notice less time on a battery charge. If you're drawing a lot of amps compared to the battery's max, it may start getting warm when the battery is almost drained.

In a mech mod you'll also notice more voltage drop at the coil which means you're getting less power at a set resistance, so a weaker vape.