24G Parallel 3x2x3 single, anyone else?

[Hunter Carroll]

Hey guys, referred to ECF for many things over the past few months. Figured I'd make this my first post. Anyone else running anything like this?

mod: Stingray Tri-Tube in Copper on Black
Atty: PlumeVeil in red, modded threaded top cap for "always open" top airways. (Because I pack my wick TIGHT)
Battery: Efest 2100 38A

 

[Darth Omerta]

Looks interesting. What the resistance?

Just a quick FYI, the Efest is not a 38A battery. Its a rewrap of a 20A or 30A "B" or "C" bin battery from another manufacturer. There are no batteries with a CDR of over 30A

 

[Hunter Carroll]

Around 0.7, and you're right that's just what it's called XD. It runs ~30A. Much better than the jank protected battery I started out with.

 

[Susan~S]

Just a quick FYI, the Efest is not a 38A battery. Its a rewrap of a 20A or 30A "B" or "C" bin battery from another manufacturer.

Here is @Mooch's bench test results on this battery:

Efest 38A 2100mAh 18650 Bench Test Results...an ok 20A cell, no higher

 

[Hunter Carroll]

If I remember max pull was like 28 comfortably on my cell. Still not too bad, good enough for what I need.

 

[Darth Omerta]

Around 0.7, and you're right that's just what it's called XD. It runs 30A. Much better than the jank protected battery I started out with.

.7 is great for that battery. At that resistance you're running 6A which well less than half of 20A. I would not give Efest a 30A continuous, I prefer to treat them as 20A at best. My personal safety zone is to not draw more than half of the battery's actual CDR. Therefore if Im using a VTC4(an actual 30A battery), I would not pull more than 15A from it(even thats a little high for me lol). I usually treat the VTC4 as a 20A battery anyway since it gets pretty hot pretty quick in the 20-30A range.

 

[Hunter Carroll]

I wanted some Panasonics or LG HE4s but I got a pretty good price on this battery and I'm on a budget (going to college). Oh, in case you were curious I vape a homemade 100% VG cherry (Roughly 18% cherry flavor concentrate) and also some Beard Gains Double Trouble Dapple with is 80/20 3mg

 

[Darth Omerta]

Sounds like some tasty juice. Im usually much more concerned with batteries though. IMO they are the most important part of the setup. It sounds like you're using your Efest in a safe margim though so everything is GREAT! My favorite battery for low ohm, mechanical mods(still only .4 and up) is the VTC4 by Sony.

 

[Hunter Carroll]

I know but real ones are a pain to source and I'm slightly .... hurt because I had a massive bank of like 14 perfect ones sourced from some battery packs when I was younger and I threw them all out.

 

[Susan~S]

Authentic batteries are not hard to source if you buy batteries from a reputable supplier (not ebay or Amazon) as there are many counterfeit batteries being sold. Here are several reputable battery suppliers in the US.

* RTD Vapor
* Illumination Supply
* Lighthound
* Orbtronics

 

[Hunter Carroll]

Nice to know some reputable suppliers from a reputable person on a reputable forum XD I appreciate it, but in all seriousness I'm still a total vaping newby and I went from nothing to Mech Mod and it's still a learning curve.