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[ThePuck]

The ideas are cool but let's try and concentrate on using NiMHs since that is what this thread is mainly about. There are a lot of other places on the forum where these types of devices are mentioned. We want to try and come up with a small but elegant mod for the ladies (or men), designed around readily available parts and maybe make it a bit more fashionable.

The Puck is great for me to use anywhere but some of the women seem to want a smaller version for out in public. I'd still like to keep this built around NiMHs if we can.

 

[justboringsarah]

I made my Puck prettier,and I really love how it came out . I took the back off and painted sparkly nailpolish all over the outside,except the switch and LED. Put on nail stickers and then finished it off with a top coat of clear nailpolish

 

[Rocketman]

ET could Phone Home with that

 

[justboringsarah]

Yeah probably,but I really like it

ET could Phone Home with that

 

[capecodjim]

The ideas are cool but let's try and concentrate on using NiMHs since that is what this thread is mainly about. There are a lot of other places on the forum where these types of devices are mentioned. We want to try and come up with a small but elegant mod for the ladies (or men), designed around readily available parts and maybe make it a bit more fashionable.

The Puck is great for me to use anywhere but some of the women seem to want a smaller version for out in public. I'd still like to keep this built around NiMHs if we can.

Sorry for the clutter......

How's the Puck Cruiser working for ya?

I wonder if 3 NiMH's are enough to get good vapor from a LR atty..... Haven't had a chance to test yet.

Saraha... who says you're boring?

 

[chr1s234]

Has anybody tried this with a 510 HV atty? I was just wondering if that would fix the fast drain and still put you in the sweet spot like the 901. I think the HV runs at 4.2 ohms. New to modding so excuse if it is a newb question lol

 

[ThePuck]

Has anybody tried this with a 510 HV atty? I was just wondering if that would fix the fast drain and still put you in the sweet spot like the 901. I think the HV runs at 4.2 ohms. New to modding so excuse if it is a newb question lol

I'm not sure if anyone has tried it but I'm sure it would be darn better than what you get out of a 510 now if... it produces enough vapor at 4.8 or less volts.

I tend to stick to more conventional pieces of hardware or hardware you can get easily so if a supply dries up, I'm not stuck and not hooked. That was the whole design philosophy behind the Puck and it's why I use straight up slb 901 attys. The Puck's parts are cheap and easy to get and so are the 901 attys

I'm not saying that 510 attys are hard to get (they're not), but if you get used to a 510 HV and then all of a sudden, you can't get them anymore, it's possible you won't like anything else. I try to keep it all vanilla

 

[ThePuck]

Sorry for the clutter......

How's the Puck Cruiser working for ya?

I wonder if 3 NiMH's are enough to get good vapor from a LR atty..... Haven't had a chance to test yet.

Saraha... who says you're boring?

Lov'n the cruiser. That pump is the best thing that could be put on any pv and it should be a mandatory part of any pv. No more dripping or filling (especially while driving) and with the NiMHs, no changing out batteries until the morning. Life is good.

As far as 3 niMHs, they work on a reguar 901 but just... "okay", not great. I've used that for a while before coming up with the 4 battery Puck. If you put an LR atty on 3 NiMHs, it will most likely produce more vapor but your batteries ain't gonna last as long I would imagine. An LR atty is gonna pull more from the battery.

 

[babyblueut]

ok, so I have the puck that my hubby built for 510 (used a m401 atty for the connector) because I wanted it NOW and didn't want to wait for the 901 atty to get here. And now I have the 901 puck that he made for me, I love the 901! much more flavor and vapor. but it seems to go through the juice faster, is this typical?

 

[ThePuck]

ok, so I have the puck that my hubby built for 510 (used a m401 atty for the connector) because I wanted it NOW and didn't want to wait for the 901 atty to get here. And now I have the 901 puck that he made for me, I love the 901! much more flavor and vapor. but it seems to go through the juice faster, is this typical?

To make the large amounts of vapor, it requires more juice. It's just like cooking. To make double the amount of mash potatoes you want to make, you have to double the amount of potatoes you cook

The nice thing about it though is sometimes you need those big clouds of vapor, but other times, you just need a "maintenance hit". With the Puck you can get it the best of both worlds. The longer you hold the button, the more juice your going to use also.

Sometimes it also depends on the atomizer. I've had some 901 atomizers that make me hold the button longer to get the same amount of vapor and some 901 attys that just requires 3 seconds. They are not all exactly the same, even from the same batch. If you are holding down the button everytime until the LED turns green, then you are going to use more juice than if you are holding it half that long. Some attys only require half that time. Others require you to hold it until it turns green. At least that's my experience with attys and I only use genuine SLB 901s which are supposed to be the best (even though some people will argue).

All in all though, as I said, to get more vapor, it requires more juice.

 

[babyblueut]

Gotcha! regardless I love it! I actually used a led that we already had so it don't change colors, but thats ok, the only issue that im having now is it is leaking out the bottom so I gotta get hubby to open it back up to see what is going on. he spot welded/melted the tabs on the electronics side so that it would not just come apart, maybe shoulda waited to do that.

 

[Goldenkobold]

woo just saw that puck cruiser....that's a nice looking unit....

 

[ThePuck]

woo just saw that puck cruiser....that's a nice looking unit....

What makes it nice is it's a complete package setup for long term vaping with no maintenance. The 4 AAA NiMHs give me 24 hours of power and the pump gives me two days of juice supply without having to drop one drip. All I ever have to do is hit the vape button to take a hit or pump the pump one time when it starts getting dry. Nothing else for a full 24 hours of pure vaping heaven

 

[babyblueut]

ack! ok now I am having a new problem, used the o-ring to stop the leak used one off a 510 drip tip, but now I have this god awful chemical rubbery burning taste. I removed the oring to see if that was the problem cleaned it all up vaped on it for a while and it is still there and the only way that i don't taste this horrible taste it to vape it flooded, could the jb-kwik be causing this? is there a different epoxy that I should use? or silicone? It is not a dry atomizer because it is a completely different taste. and I did try a new atty as well.

The first Puck my hubby made we used a 510 connection and it is raised up out of the hole a bit, but it does not have this taste at all but we did use a different epoxy (flexco solvent free esd epoxy- he is a flooring layer and had this on hand before we got the jb kwik)

ugh! I am so lost because I love my Puck! (with the 901 = much better than 510)

 

[ThePuck]

ack! ok now I am having a new problem, used the o-ring to stop the leak used one off a 510 drip tip, but now I have this god awful chemical rubbery burning taste. I removed the oring to see if that was the problem cleaned it all up vaped on it for a while and it is still there and the only way that i don't taste this horrible taste it to vape it flooded, could the jb-kwik be causing this? is there a different epoxy that I should use? or silicone? It is not a dry atomizer because it is a completely different taste. and I did try a new atty as well.

The first Puck my hubby made we used a 510 connection and it is raised up out of the hole a bit, but it does not have this taste at all but we did use a different epoxy (flexco solvent free esd epoxy- he is a flooring layer and had this on hand before we got the jb kwik)

ugh! I am so lost because I love my Puck! (with the 901 = much better than 510)

If you just resealed your puck connector with JB QWIK, it will taste bad for about 24 hours then the taste will completely disappear. There is a bad taste that taste like the smell of JB QWIK during the first 24 hours.

A rubber o-ring should not cause this problem unless your atty is getting way too hot. Mine barely even gets warm during use becuase a 901 burns so much cooler even at the higher voltage of the Puck. I've been using the o-ring for a few days now and do not have a problem at all with bad taste.

If it's not new epoxy and not the o-ring then you may have an atty that decided to put out bad taste. I've had this happen several times over the past year. The atty just starts tasting really nasty. If you remove it, put on another atty you will be okay. Take the bad tasting atty and let it sit out in the open air for a week and the bad taste will disappear. Not sure what causes it or why letting it dry out works but it has worked everytime for me. It's really strange the taste is aweful and for soon reason letting it dry out fixes it.

Just some things to try

 

[McG]

My version of the puck. All the credit for this creation goes to Puck and other modders that came before me.

This is a 510 version using a mosfet switch. The mosfet came from digikey and cost 1.41 while the 510 connector is from liberty flights and cost 1.50. I use a SLB 510 3.2 ohm atomizer. It reads 4.5 volts under load and so far hits my sweet spot.



Edit: Sorry for the poor picture quality. I don't own a decent camera at the moment.

 

[ThePuck]

Nice! Good soldering job from what I see also. Hmmmm.... A 3.2 ohm 510 atomizer? That's an interesting find. You should get the same battery life we get out of the 901 attys with that (about a full day and night of vaping). Your values are pretty consistant with the 901s. Where'd you find that animal if you don't mind tell'n ?

Also, a lot of people may want to know the model of the mosfet you used. A lot of people like to use them for smaller rated push buttons. I'm sure inquering minds would like to know

 

[McG]

Here is one place the atomizer can be found. I had a couple of these lying around I ordered by mistake months ago. According to litecig these run between 3 - 3.5 ohms. You have to be carefull when ordering these. SLB also makes a 4.5 ohm atomizer for 6V vaping and it easy to confuse the two.

slb 510 Atomizer

Here is the mosfet I used. It has a Vgs(th) of 2.5 V. I went with a mosfet because I had to push uncomfortably hard on radio shack switch button to turn it on. The mosfet also fits very nicely in the AAA battery slot in the box.

Digi-Key - IRL3714ZPBF-ND (Manufacturer - IRL3714ZPBF)

 

[Storm0075]

Our first mod and it was easy peasy....ok...so we changed things up a bit and the first one took a few hours. BUT...we used the 510 connectors from some batteries we ripped apart. We only used 3 AAA to give a 3.6v experience. Hey we are coming from standard batts. From what I understand it is easier to go up in voltage later then to try and come back down. So we are able to add another batt later and they work perfectly!!! This was so easy to do and the most expensive part was getting the iron and batteries. We had a few here but needed more. Running two mods with backup batts. Surprisingly we did not kill each other (even when we ran into a few problem and it was here let me see... no let me see) and we are both ecstatic now that they are completed. My BF only did it to humor me, because I have been scouring the mods for weeks now, he is just shocked and amazed at the difference. Now I need to figure out how to make it work in a tube mod.

Puck, I cannot thank you enough for the idiot proof tutorial and for coming up with a viable concept!!! Hey if I can read and understand it then it MUST be easy. The hardest thing I have ever done electronically is putting in a new graphics card in my PC, lol.

 

[ThePuck]

Fantastic!. Glad to see you could get one together. You will really be amazed at the amount of vapor once you go to the 4.8 volts. It really makes a huge difference.

If you use newly charged batteries right out of the charger, 4.8 volts might be a little harsh until the batteries simmer down after a few puffs but... if you let the batteries sit overnight before using them, the charge weakens a bit and they are not overpowering for the first few puffs.

If you are still wanting to use 3 batteries, there are plenty of flashlights available that use 3 NiMHs. Your tube mod might not be so far away