Mooch

Check my recently updated table of recommend batteries (see my blog). Any of the 26650's will be about the best available. The iJoy's are best with the Basen and Brillipower following closely behind in performance.

Thanks Mooch. Yes, I had seen all your tests. The only problem is that the only battery that you had recommended had been discontinnued (efest green), and all the efests purple selled by nkon dont match the rating of the ones you tested

Already figure it out. The Efest Metallic Purples 35A have the same rating as the green one in your tests. I will go with that .
Thanks for everything Mooch, you're a huge help for our community!

Not too much to say. As mentioned on that page they are low-amp rated protected batteries that are 70mm long. Could be 3.9A NCR18650B's. I haven't tested them as they probably wouldn't fit any mods.

Thank you!

Yeah that was a fantastic interview! Solid!

You can check my blog for the test results for that battery. I don't know what the 40A is supposed to be. It's a 25A battery.

Thank you!

Thanks. I saw that....very cool! He and I have been talking behind the scenes about some battery stuff.

From 2 days ago? I saw that one but was doing other things while it was on in the background so I must have missed it. Do you remember which segment it was in?

Towards the end in the retro vaping section, he was talking about what 26650 to put in a big mech.
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Those aren't actually graphene batteries. They're just regular graphite-anode lipo's with some graphene, probably a sheet, added in. The addition of that graphene does nothing. True graphene batteries, AFAIK, have a lower nominal voltage.

Thanks!

Sorry, no idea. I don't know which cells are available with tabs.

Any luck? Wondering if you got my message too.

Yes, sorry, I got your message. Not in a huge hurry, but was hoping you might have some ideas. No real luck so far.

LOL...my jaw dropped when I watched that video, just surreal.

Hello all. I too saw the video and was surprised that he mentioned the hb6 lg batteries since i never hear him talk about much other than box mods and rta's lately. So why did jaws drop and screams wake up neighbors? Sorry I may have missed something about the vid. I feel I may know the reason but I dont want to bad mouth someone on the interwebs

My jaw dropping was caused by his mentioning my name and testing.

Ahh, I haven't watched that yet!
I use Battery Mooch in some places because there is another Mooch out there.

I just came here for the exact same reason... To tell him of his mention! I dont buy into "famous" vapers but GrimmGreen is different. Hes the only famous vaper I follow and believe when he reviews a product....I do on the other hand buy into the hype associated with famous battery gurus,and revered electron wranglers

No problem at all, great blog!
I didn't add the AW because the HG2 is easily available, usually at a lower price. The list is already too big now and I'll be removing some cells after I do the Samsung/Sony/LG shootouts soon.

My multimeter is weird in that(I guess) a lot of them have a starting voltage that you have to subtract later on after you have your testing results, but mine does not. The multimeter i have is automatic (im thinking this is the feature) causing it to only show a result if it is touching something. Otherwise it just throws random numbers

The random numbers are normal. As long as it reads 0.00V when you touch the probes together firmly you're ok.

You can read the voltage at any time. If the button is not being pressed then you'll read a very low voltage that changes constantly because no voltage is being applied to the coil.

If you read the voltage when there is no coil, and you press the button, you may or may not read the battery voltage depending on what type of mod you have. But there is no load on the battery.

You have to press the button and fire the coil to know what voltage the battery drops to when you're vaping. Readng the voltage at the posts is the best way to to this.

No problem, they're still married.

If it drops to 3.7V and you want to know the amount of current actually flowing then use 3.7V. You would also need to know the voltage drop through your mod so measure the voltage at the atomizer posts.

If you want a bit of a safery margin then use 4.2V.

Thanks. I thought thats what i would do. I didnt feel like i was pulling 35 amps or more (in 2-3 sec pulses) and Vaping at 145 watts so i assumed that after everything else comes into play, the voltage drops significantly and im really pulsing closer to the 20 amp continuous rating, which makes me happy! Still, its better to ask and be safe than be a know-it-all! Thanks. Big help!

She might have a degree in electrical enginering but they do not teach battery science and testing as part of getting that degree. She probably did what so many do, confuse a battery rating with a battery capability.

Like any 15A or higher battery, the Efan can run at 40A. But that does not mean the battery can be rated at 40A. If it could then the 25R, HE2, HE4, VTC5, HG2, and 30Q could be rated at 40A.

And they're not.

Thank you

Pulsed discharges are how we vape so it can be important. Pulses are anything shorter than continuous so it covers a huge range of pulse times. I use 5 second pulses for my testing but they can be any length.

There aren't any valid pulse ratings set by any battery company though so I recommend ignoring them.