Any Material To Reduce Voltage?

[Sir_Lawrence]

I have a silver bullet and like it at 6v. But, for some reason, I keep burning up 801 attys. I'm doing everything right according to everyone's tips. So I would like to reduce the volts to 5v. I've tried making the resister disks someone showed on this site, but for some reason, it didn't work with an atty attached to the mod. It worked in the mod using my voltage meter, but not with an atty. Odd!
So, I'm trying to find some type of material already made that may work to drop it down a volt.
Thank you

 

[umop apisdn]

Well, Kirchoff's Voltage Law is the reason why that's impossible. What you could do is Increase the resistance in the atomizer to reduce the current, (exponentially decaying the power delivered), so that it doesn't fry the atty. But, since you really can't just wave a magic wand and "increase" the resistance, this may be difficult. Unless you added a resistor coil before the atty, but that would only end up producing heat itself too.

A lot of people experience problems with frying atty's on HV mods. I think one company produced a HV atty, but it effectively undoes the effect of HV mods (higher vapor, throat hit, etc.).

I know this isn't much help, but at least it's a little insight. There's still much to improve upon in the vaping world.

 

[Scottbee]

I believe the disk goes in series with the batteries (think of it as a battery spacer) so Kirchoff won't have a problem with it at all.

The big problem is that you can't use your meter to measure the voltage drop on an unloaded system. It would be easier to measure the static resistance of the disk.. which should be about .5 Ohm.

 

[The_janty_Misfit]

I believe the disk goes in series with the batteries (think of it as a battery spacer) so Kirchoff won't have a problem with it at all.

The big problem is that you can't use your meter to measure the voltage drop on an unloaded system. It would be easier to measure the static resistance of the disk.. which should be about .5 Ohm.

Interesting. So what are these disks, and how do I get my hot little hands on one to experiment?

Thanks in advance for the info.

 

[BuzzKill]

I'm making some voltage/wattage reducing adaptors ( 901 type ) that will drop ( from a 6.5volt reference 3.5 ohm atty ) about .8 volt/1.3 watts and 1.4 volts/2 watts

It's gonna be a while before I get the parts, about a month or so. I might make these available for sale ?? it depends on the response

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