Battery Musing: Any set of married batteries can be used in any mod

[Mooch]

The topic of married batteries generates a lot of questions, many regarding where a set of married batteries can be used or not used. The most important thing to remember is...batteries are married to each other, not the mod.

As long as you do not exceed that ratings of the batteries, and they stay married, you can use them anywhere.

Here are some examples...

• You can use a married set from a regulated mod in a mech/unregulated mod, and vice-versa.
• You can use a married set from a serial mod in a parallel mod, and vice-versa.

Here are some things you cannot do when moving married batteries between mods...

• You cannot add a married set to another battery to use in the other mod.
• You cannot remove a battery from a married set to use in the other mod and then try to remarry it.

 

[r77r7r]

How about different types? My local vape shop worker has a triple with 2 kinds. ( 2 pink and 1 reddish, IIRC)

 

[Rossum]

How about different types? My local vape shop worker has a triple with 2 kinds. ( 2 pink and 1 reddish, IIRC)

 

[r77r7r]

Twas what I thought. New mod running 2-300 watts also. I will attempt to advise.

 

[Robert Cromwell]

Thanks Mooch.

 

[DaveP]

Good info, Mooch. So you are in effect saying that a married pair could be used for a while in a single battery mod in alternate fashion and then returned to the dual battery mod as a matched pair? I can see that as being viable as long as you rotated them in equal turns in the single battery mod. That would put similar loads on the batteries so that they would remain equally drained and charged with each rotational use.

The important part to me is that they discharge to the same voltage and then charge up with matching voltages during the charge cycle. You'd need a charger that actually showed voltages at least to the tenth to know that they were identical in discharge and charge rates. A LUC 2 or LUC 4 would show you voltages to the tenth and some other chargers carry that to the hundredths.

I think you were talking about using them in married pairs in different mods, not using married pairs in single battery mods and then returning them as married pairs.

Just trying to clarify.

 

[Rossum]

So you are in effect saying that a married pair could be used for a while in a single battery mod in alternate fashion and then returned to the dual battery mod as a matched pair?

No, I don't think he said that...

You cannot remove a battery from a married set to use in the other mod and then try to remarry it.

 

[Robert Cromwell]

They can be divorced and used as individual batteries though. Just no remarriage.
With batteries once it is over it is over for good.

 

[Mooch]

Good info, Mooch. So you are in effect saying that a married pair could be used for a while in a single battery mod in alternate fashion and then returned to the dual battery mod as a matched pair? I can see that as being viable as long as you rotated them in equal turns in the single battery mod. That would put similar loads on the batteries so that they would remain equally drained and charged with each rotational use.

The important part to me is that they discharge to the same voltage and then charge up with matching voltages during the charge cycle. You'd need a charger that actually showed voltages at least to the tenth to know that they were identical in discharge and charge rates. A LUC 2 or LUC 4 would show you voltages to the tenth and some other chargers carry that to the hundredths.

I think you were talking about using them in married pairs in different mods, not using married pairs in single battery mods and then returning them as married pairs.

Just trying to clarify.

I was talking about using married pairs in different mods...which is ok.
I was also talking about not splitting a married pair for use in single battery nods and then remarrying them...which is not ok.

The biggest problem with all this is that it often is ok. This will be covered in another post.

 

[Robert Cromwell]

I was talking about using married pairs in different mods...which is ok.
I was also talking about not splitting a married pair for use in single battery nods and then remarrying them...which is not ok.

The biggest problem with all this is that it often is ok. This will be covered in another post.

Yeah I look forward to how you are going to explain that
I prefer to tell em not to do it at all to avoid confusion.

 

[Mooch]

Yeah I look forward to how you are going to explain that
I prefer to tell em not to do it at all to avoid confusion.

I've been putting it off for months. The post will be huge as it will have to address every possible variation that could be posed as a question after I post.

 

[ddirtyvapes]

Helpful! Based on the first post and subsequent, am I right in saying that if you have a married trio, you could theoretically remove one from the set and still have a married pair? Basially the same as splitting up a duo for single use, yes?

(I hear you though, no remarrying.)

 

[Robert Cromwell]

I've been putting it off for months. The post will be huge as it will have to address every possible variation that could be posed as a question after I post.

Same with me on explaining it.
Why I just tell em not to do it.
Safer for all concerned that way imho.

 

[Mooch]

Helpful! Based on the first post and subsequent, am I right in saying that if you have a married trio, you could theoretically remove one from the set and still have a married pair? Basially the same as splitting up a duo for single use, yes?

(I hear you though, no remarrying.)

Yes, that is correct.

 

[Robert Cromwell]

Mooch,
You gonna explain about periodic fidelity checks?

 

[Mooch]

Mooch,
You gonna explain about periodic fidelity checks?

Yes