Faster battery consumption dripping vs a tank?

[fishwater]

Has anyone else noticed much faster battery consumption when dripping vs a tank? I have an SMY 60 TC Mini with a single 18650. The batteries are Samsung 25R's that are a month old, I alternate days with this same pair. One battery used to give me two days or 400 puffs according to my puff counter. I just built my first coil, .13-.16 ohms, single Ni200 build in a Twisted Messes RDA. With either of my sub tanks it was about 2 days regardless of which Samsung or tank, with the dripper I can watch my battery drop in as little as 10 minutes of use where the sub tanks wouldn't even move the battery meter. I'm at the same temp & same basic ohm as the factory coils in the sub tanks. Does this sound right?

 

[IMFire3605]

If the tank is a single coil and the RDA is a dual coil, then the RDA will suck a battery dry faster, 2X the amount of metal to heat up, also if the wire in the RDA is thicker than the stock tank coil heads, then again that much metal will pull more power to heat up.

 

[Visus]

You must vape some really good e joos; there's a phenomena called ghost battery likes that joos. It only occurs when you put good joos in a dripper. If it bothers you there's a cure. You have to put a grateful dead bumper sticker on your car and sing for three days "a touch of grey.." You will get by you will survive oh yeah..

 

[CloudyWithChanceOfVape]

Also, .16 is drawing more Amps than most tank coils. Unless you're rebuilding the tank coils too, lower resistance with high watts will draw faster than medium resistance with medium wattage.

 

[sonicbomb]

The same coil at the same power with the same wicking and airflow will consume juice and power at the same rate regardless of whether it's in a tank or in an RDA. The difference in consumption can be attributed the differences just stated between one device and another.

 

[fishwater]

I used the same battery & with my dripper I got 350 puffs vs 400 with a tank. My thoughts are that its just more mass to heat up since the size of the deck is huge on my RDA vs a tank. Either way oh well, I'll continue to use either or but it was just weird to me at first to have such a higher battery consumption than before.