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I did it for two years every day.. Others cooberate my experience as well. Yes there are differences in batteries and their age. But with the batteries I had in 2013 that is the exact results I got. 10amp 2000mah 18650 were the battery of the day. 7 amp Efest 18350 800 mah were what I used stacked.
You say you ran stacked 18350 and only got 2 ml.. You have some seriously bad batteries... But I think you are making the mistake of thinking there's no way they can last that long when they are so weak alone in single mode. I have had to convince many.
I ran 6v to 1.3ohms maxing the mod out completely, with a measure wattage of 27.6 and went all day every day with one single pair of stacked 18350 with no recharge, no major loss of power, no sag. No spare batteries carried for my 10- 12 hour work day. It was taking me 3 10amp 18650 to make it through the same day. This is a fact.
When the 18650 gets below 3.6v the zmax no longer puts out the full power you have it set at. Especially at higher power settings. The battery has to be pulled by 3.5v or its just way too weak. With stacked I was able to run it to cut off with no loss of power. You have over 6v available to power the coil even at cutoff, not 3.4v like a single.
The buck circuitry is far more efficient than the boost circuit in mods of this Era.
Comparing it to a new mod is like comparing a picture tube tv to a 1080p flat screen.... And obviously dual 18650 will last twice as long as the dual 350.
Much of the confusion has to do with how the circuits work in mods of this Era.
You will get up to 27.6w with stacked batteries... With a single battery you will get about 16w max. This is a fact of the zmax.
@aikanae1 -
I did it for two years every day.. Others cooberate my experience as well. Yes there are differences in batteries and their age. But with the batteries I had in 2013 that is the exact results I got. 10amp 2000mah 18650 were the battery of the day. 7 amp Efest 18350 800 mah were what I used stacked.
You say you ran stacked 18350 and only got 2 ml.. You have some seriously bad batteries... But I think you are making the mistake of thinking there's no way they can last that long when they are so weak alone in single mode. I have had to convince many.
I ran 6v to 1.3ohms maxing the mod out completely, with a measure wattage of 27.6 and went all day every day with one single pair of stacked 18350 with no recharge, no major loss of power, no sag. No spare batteries carried for my 10- 12 hour work day. It was taking me 3 10amp 18650 to make it through the same day. This is a fact.
When the 18650 gets below 3.6v the zmax no longer puts out the full power you have it set at. Especially at higher power settings. The battery has to be pulled by 3.5v or its just way too weak. With stacked I was able to run it to cut off with no loss of power. You have over 6v available to power the coil even at cutoff, not 3.4v like a single.
The buck circuitry is far more efficient than the boost circuit in mods of this Era.
Comparing it to a new mod is like comparing a picture tube tv to a 1080p flat screen.... And obviously dual 18650 will last twice as long as the dual 350.
Much of the confusion has to do with how the circuits work in mods of this Era.
You will get up to 27.6w with stacked batteries... With a single battery you will get about 16w max. This is a fact of the zmax.
@aikanae1 -
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