TimeLordSavant said:
Well now I can chuckle at my newbie mind process... because once I hooked my build up to my ohm reader it came back at .45ohms. I was originally looking at my Kanthal width of 26 on 8 wraps and cross-referencing this coil chart
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...=sharing#gid=0 making me think .9 would be the outcome.. well not in a dual coil silly me.
Let's take a moment to give thanks for meters.
TimeLordSavant said:
All these charts and calculators are very helpful, so thank you Bruce (you don't mind if I call you Bruce, do you - it is so much easier) for the links.
You can call me flower if you want to, but pals usually call me db.
TimeLordSavant said:
Now I have one more question on batteries - I have read in threads here and there the idea of "marrying" the batteries.. and while I understand what that means, not sure I understand why that would make any difference in battery life. If anyone could either preach to me why that matters or why it doesn't, I would be thankful.
Quick note: I'd have seen this eventually but for a seperate Q like this you'd probably get the fastest (and most) responses as a seperate thread.
Second quick note: If you're thinking about stacking two 18350s or something in your mod, I highly recommend against it. It isn't very safe. At all. And regeneration for a Time Lord only happens when you're fatally wounded, not when you lose a chunk of your face.
Answering your question: There are two situations where you'd marry your batteries; when they are in a series or parallel. It's most important for series, or stacked, where it looks like one large battery -- double the voltage with the same amperage and capacity.
You want your batteries to discharge evenly, otherwise one ends up charging the other which can end up making things go wonky. Marrying keeps them as similar as possible out-of-the-box.
If they are in parallel, like in a box mod, your capacity doubles and so does your amperage, while voltage stays the same. If they aren't at exactly the same, one battery can still end up charging the other one.
e.g., if you took two 18650s, and one was a year old... well a lithium automatically loses 10% of it's charge over a year. They both start at 3.7v off the charger, but partway through a vaping session one will have less power than the other, and that's where the wonkiness starts.
