Battery usage/conservation help

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Zhooligan20

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I own an IPV3, a tugboat RDA and the Atlantis RTA. When I use my tugboat, it eats the .... out of my battery life. At first I thought the problem was related to my batteries. Recently, I bought the Atlantis. This doesn't eat up the battery life as fast as my tugboat. In fact, I can heavily vape on my atlantis and my batteries can last for two days. If I heavily vape on my tugboat, my batteries are dead in only a matter of couple hours.

What are some tips to help conserve battery life when using my tugboat RDA?

Just to clarify, I usually build 24g kanthal dual macro coils (usually around 2 ohms). I keep the wattage around 60-50w (3.5-3.9 volts is my estimate).
Should I build lower resistance coils? Higher? My Atlantis is around 6 ohms.
 

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The resistance on your tugboat RDA is about 2ohms? And you have it around 60-50w? That's not 3.5 - 3.9 volts. That should be about 10 - 11 volts. That's an amp draw of 5 amps.

You have your Atlantis at 50-60w? Is that with the 0.5 ohm coils? If so, that is 5 - 5.4 volts. That's an amp draw of around 10 amps.

The tugboat RDA should give you a longer vape time. I've never come across anyone using their 0.5 ohm atlantis coils at 50-60w because higher than 40 gives it a burnt taste. What is your secret?
 

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Oh .... I messed up. I typed this all up in a hurry. Here's some corrections...

Atlantis: I run the Atlantis with 26w. My box says it's around .6 ohms and 3.9v.

Tugboat: My builds are usually 24g kanthol duel macro coils. The result: .2 ohms. I usually run it around 50-60watts

How long your battery lasts is directly related to the power (watts) you're taking from it. Atty resistance has nothing to do with it. Using the same battery, it will last twice as long at 25 watts as at 50 watts assuming you take the same number of drags per hour and the drags are all the same length.
 
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