401 atty - Ideal Voltage?

[Paradiso]

Anyone played around with various voltages and have some experience to share?
I made a USB passthrough and its a little volcano, but the atty gets hot very fast and it starts tasting burnt after a few hits. I'm thinking that 5 volts is too much. I'm thinking of making a 6 volt mod and using diodes to bring it down to around 4.5 or so.
Any insight appreciated.

Thanks

 

[RjG]

At 4 volts, that little thing is drawing 1.5 amps (because it is a very low ohm atomizer)

That's where I like mine at.

Remember that diodes will drop the voltage over the entire range of your battery, so if the battery pair runs from 7 to 6 volts now, it will go 4 to 3 volts if you use diodes to drop 3 volts. 3v is a little light...

You have lots of headroom for a regulator instead if you wan to try that route.

 

[RjG]

( use one larger 3.7v battery, which is about 4.2 charged, and 3.8 when I put it back on to charge again. The M401 battery does not provide that much power, it's not even close)

 

[Paradiso]

Thanks RjG. I have made a NicoStick with a 14500 battery (see avatar). That is great, but I keep thinking maybe a little more power would be better. (When the mod bug hits, you just can't help tweaking stuff!)
The more I think about it though, it probably doesn't make sense to mess around for another .5 volts.

(But I DO have these two flashlights that I was planning to make magnums from. I just HAVE TO do something with them. Yes, I'm obsessed.)

 

[ccure]

I use 4.5v and it work great. When I put it at 6v it "eats" the liquid too fast and you also can taste something burning. Also at 6v my liquid lose some of the original taste.

 

[Nuck]

I found 4.5 to be pretty much the sweet spot for the 401. Any more than that and it burns the liquid way too fast for such a small atomizer.

 

[Paradiso]

Thank you ccure and nuck. What setups are you guys using to deliver 4.5 volts to the atty?

 

[YKruss]

Paradiso,

What kind of adapter did you use for 401 atty?

 

[Nuck]

Thank you ccure and nuck. What setups are you guys using to deliver 4.5 volts to the atty?

I did it with a PT mod and a 1N4001 diode. For my next mod I'm going to use a 5v voltage regulator with the same diode. Just waiting on the regulators to get here in the mail.

 

[ccure]

I am using an AC/DC universal adapter. I took apart a 401 battery and use the head of it.

That adapter let me go up to 12v so I use it also to "clean" the atty with 6 or 7.5v.

Best Luck

 

[Paradiso]

Paradiso,

What kind of adapter did you use for 401 atty?

Like ccure, I pulled the adapter off of a dead battery for the NicoStick. I also made a USB Pasthrough using an RCA plug. (There's a sticky here in the modder's forum on that)

 

[YKruss]

Thanks ccure

And Paradiso...

 

[Paradiso]

I did it with a PT mod and a 1N4001 diode. For my next mod I'm going to use a 5v voltage regulator with the same diode. Just waiting on the regulators to get here in the mail.

PT = pass through?
So the 1N4001 will drop the 5 volts by about another .5?
Are the regulators the TI samples?

Thanks

 

[Nuck]

PT = pass through?
So the 1N4001 will drop the 5 volts by about another .5?
Are the regulators the TI samples?

Thanks

PT = pass through.

I believe the drop was about 0.6-0.7 at 5.2 voltage in when I tested it. It was a while ago but that was pretty close.

The TI samples are much better than the LM7805 that I was using. I just put in an order tonight for some:

Linear Regulators - Single Channel LDO - UCC283-5 - TI.com

 

[four2109]

I made a pass through for my 401 when I found an old universal lighter plug with selectable voltage in a drawer. It uses that little 2 pin adapta-plug thing, so I just went with it. So today I'm in RS, and they have an AC-to DC Power Adapter 4.5V-1600mA with the same little adapt a plug on the end of the cord, on clearance, for under $4 bucks. Just seems too easy......