Care and feeding of mechanical mods?

[Coelli]

Hi all,

Although I'm pretty much a VV girl and I really like the idiot-proofness and safety features of my Provaris, through divine providence and the wonderful people at craft vapery I'm about to acquire my first mech.

They just held the "Chuck Norris Giveaway" for their subscribers last month and I won! It's a seriously freaking amazing bundle and I just about fell over when they announced the winner and it said my name. I haven't received it yet but it should be soon. In short it's a Satin Brass King mod, brass Kraken, Brass Monkee RDA, Sony batteries, charger, coil building tool kit, ohmmeter, wire, ekowool, and the list goes on and on... oh and a 16oz bottle of really good juice!

So what's going to be different between this and my pretty straightforward batteries in - batteries out and otherwise don't think about it Provaris (besides the obvious)? Although I'm okay with sub-ohming I'm not really interested in pushing the limits or cloud chasing. I do build my own coils and have built a Kraken clone and RDAs but I'm mostly wondering about battery safety, things to watch out for, etc. Should I grab some fuses? Through osmosis I've seen pins and switches mentioned - are these something I need to worry about?

Any advice would be welcome. Thanks ECF!

 

[Artus]

Really just protected batteries should be fine, if you are sub ohming then you want to make sure you have a high amp output like these 2 Sony VTC5 3 7V US18650VTC5 2600mAh High Drain 30A Rechargeable Li on Battery | eBay , otherwise it is pretty much the same battery safety as you use with a Provari. At least from what I have seen in my own research.

 

[Jeffk123]

Sony batts are unprotected high drain imr, you do not want to use protected batteries in any kind of mech mod

 

[Artus]

Ah, yes you are right, I went back and looked at the Sony's. Not protected. But why wouldn't you want to use protected batteries, I thought that they are the go to for a mech mod. For mainly the over discharge limit on them.

 

[DurtyZ]

Because protected batteries don't have a high enough amp rating as imr unprotected batteries. And they aren't safe chemistry so they would blow up as compared to heat up and vent for safe chemistry batteries.

 

[WattWick]

Oh wow! Congrats!

Besides using good batteries (which you will), the main thing about mechanicals is knowing a couple of things. You need to know your atomizers resistance. Even more importantly, you need to know you don't have a short circuit. I see you have built a Kraken clone and an RDA, so I guess you already have a way of figuring this out. Either a multi-meter or a regulated mod with a resistance checker.

... and don't forget to use the locking ring if you pocket your mechanical. You don't want it stuck firing until bad things happen.