Battery sticky? need detailed info

[Brewmaster B]

searching alot today and cannot find a comprehensive document or post giving me this information: what are the differences in all these batteries? protected vs. unprotected, amp limits, imr vs lion vs whatnot. I have a full mech., a provari, and a bolt. some batteries work on some, others don't. I don't know if its because I'm using a very LR rebuildable, causing certain batteries not to to work, or if those batteries just don't work on that mod. Is there not a document with all this info as it pertains to PV's? Would be a good resource for noobs like myself.

 

[double_aa_ron]

Im not a battery expert, but I just use aw imr batteries and they seem to work on anything I put them in.

 

[Brewmaster B]

I agree there with you, my aw imr's are good in everything I have. However for instance I have a trustfire with a much higher maH rating than the aw imr equivalent, but it won't work in the bolt, using a sub-ohm coil.

 

[double_aa_ron]

Probably has to do with the drain you are putting on the battery. I've also had good luck with Panasonic and Efest imr batteries.

 

[Fury83]

The trustfire is likely protected and you are probably tripping the protection circuit. That's probably a good thing because it's likely an ICR that can't handle the amperage being asked of it.

Short answer to a question you didn't actually ask is that you should use high quality IMR's for your sub ohm coils. So AW IMR's for anything and also MNKE or Panasonic CGR18650CH's. With those kind of coils, MAH rating shouldn't be a big consideration. The C rating and also some measure of trust in the brand/source should.

Here's a simple explanation of C rating

To break it down to its simplest terms, the C rating is the maximum safe continuous discharge rate of a battery. If you see 10C on your battery;s listing, it means it can be discharged at 10 times that batteries capacity.

You don't want to exceed that. If you don't know the amps for your coil on a fresh battery, you need to stop wrapping sub-ohm coils and look up ohms law.

IMR's are a safer chemistry and good ones allow for a pretty high draw but some of the smaller battery sizes...I wouldn't push really hard. A fuse wouldn't be a bad idea either.