ego twist mod?

[RickTheBeard]

im not as smart as a lot of the people in here but somethings been on my mind.
would it be possible to dissemble an ego twist and use its guts in a mod with a AW battery?
i've looked around the net and haven't found anything on this but im sure i cant be the only one whos thought of this

 

[trevor148]

If you could that would be a pretty cheap mod. I've seen them for about $23 for 650 mah. I've wanted to take a peak inside the ego c twist if you happen to try this out would you mind posting pictures of the twist taken apart?

Maybe you could cram the twist and an 18490 in one of those big ego t tubes.

 

[RickTheBeard]

I've wanted to take a peak inside the ego c twist if you happen to try this out would you mind posting pictures of the twist taken apart?

this is the closest i've been able to find of an ego twist taken apart Ego-C Twist Repair - YouTube

i havnt taken an ego twist apart yet, i was more wondering if i could when the battery in mine died. im also wondering if the extra 0.5 volts from the AW would effect the circuits of the ego twist.

anyone out there taken one apart yet?

 

[Fatpomp]

I ripped one of mine apart but haven't done anything with it.

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[RickTheBeard]

I ripped one of mine apart but haven't done anything with it.

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is it possible for you to hook it up to an AW and see if it works? im not sure if you have a multi meter or bread board. if you do it would be really helpful to me.
main thing i want to know is if the inbult circuit protection would trip with the extra 0.5 volts

 

[Robert T]

What .5v? 4.2v would be the fully charged voltage of both, 3.7 the nominal voltage as far as I know.

 

[RickTheBeard]

What .5v? 4.2v would be the fully charged voltage of both, 3.7 the nominal voltage as far as I know.

dont egos use a 3.2volt battery?

 

[Robert T]

Not that I'm aware of. I think that's close to the regulated output of the regular Joye eGo or in the past it was. The twist is VV so whatever you have it set at is the regulated voltage. The Riva and a lot of the eGo clones are unregulated.

 

[RickTheBeard]

Not that I'm aware of. I think that's close to the regulated output of the regular Joye eGo or in the past it was. The twist is VV so whatever you have it set at is the regulated voltage. The Riva and a lot of the eGo clones are unregulated.

so do you believe swapping the battery for a 2000mah AW would work? (in a new housing)

 

[Robert T]

I don't see why not if you're capable of wiring it correctly.

 

[RickTheBeard]

shouldnt be too hard, it just looks like 3 wires

 

[Fatpomp]

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is it possible for you to hook it up to an AW and see if it works? im not sure if you have a multi meter or bread board. if you do it would be really helpful to me.
main thing i want to know is if the inbult circuit protection would trip with the extra 0.5 volts

Picture should be up now sorry about that. Unfortunately I'm just starting to learn about this so I'm probably not going to be much help.

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[RickTheBeard]

Picture should be up now sorry about that. Unfortunately I'm just starting to learn about this so I'm probably not going to be much help.

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thanks for the picture mate its really helpful. im just starting to learn about this stuff as well. really i dont know much about electronic thats why im asking for any and all advice on this.

 

[DaveP]

Theoretically it would work. The battery in an eGO is a standard Li-ion battery that charges to 4.2v and drops fairly rapidly to 3.7v where it slowly discharges under load a 3.2v cut off. The regulation on some eGo batts is to increase battery charge life and give the user a constant 3.3v/3.4v vape from charge to empty.

 

[dirfm]

This would be interesting...joining the thread!

 

[RickTheBeard]

dont get too excited for me to try this out straight away. i would actually prefer someone else to do it but i am going to try it myself when my batteries eventually die (not for ages im hoping) im more just wondering if it would work and why no one that i can see has thought of it or attempted it before.
resons why im not going to try it till my batteries die is because while ego twists arnt that expensive in the states they cost a lot more here due to shipping

 

[GIMike]

I had one for less than a week before I dropped it, and now it doesn't function at all. I think something came loose inside, but I haven't taken it apart to find out. I guess maybe I could, and then rewire it into something else. But I've never attempted to build a mod at all, which is why I bought the gripper

 

[Fatpomp]

I'm gonna mess around with it later on when I get a chance. I'll let you know what happens.

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[RickTheBeard]

im also wondering if it would be possible to charge the AW battery through the joye ego charger?

 

[trevor148]

I know you can charge the ego t 18650 mod with an ego charger so I would think you could.

When you took you twist apart did you see if there were any circuits under the battery? I see the twisting end of the ego is still on the tube and unless I'm wrong all that is in the picture are the battery, circuit, and ego threading.