First VV ego battery...

[sbc83]

I bought one of the newer 3200mah VV ego style batteries to check out as it spiked my curiosity. While monitoring the voltage at each setting (3.2,3.7 and 4.2) I'm finding that while fully charged it'll start at whichever setting I set it to but it will decrease like a regular non-vv ego battery while in use. I was using it at 3.7v for 2 days (Off n' on) and decided to test it and found it to be @ 3.4v. I then set it to 4.2v and got a reading of 3.8v.

My question, do normal VV batteries operate this way? I know my MVP V2 doesn't. From my understanding they were to remain at whichever voltage setting you set it to until it could no longer maintain said voltage, at which point it would begin to drop.

Is sbc83 going nuts or did he get what he payed for?

 

[sbc83]

I bought one of the newer 3200mah VV ego style batteries to check out as it spiked my curiosity. While monitoring the voltage at each setting (3.2,3.7 and 4.2) I'm finding that while fully charged it'll start at whichever setting I set it to but it will decrease like a regular non-vv ego battery while in use. I was using it at 3.7v for 2 days (Off n' on) and decided to test it and found it to be @ 3.4v. I then set it to 4.2v and got a reading of 3.8v.

My question, do normal VV batteries operate this way? I know my MVP V2 doesn't. From my understanding they were to remain at whichever voltage setting you set it to until it could no longer maintain said voltage, at which point it would begin to drop.

Is sbc83 going nuts or did he get what he payed for?

I'm going too bump this up just one time.

So please tell me it's not normal for VV batteries to act in this fashion.

 

[Topwater Elvis]

Power regulation & accuracy isn't any ego / stick style battery's strong point, don't feel bad, about one third of all the more expensive apvs aren't capable of their claimed working ranges either.

 

[realsis]

On-load voltage simply means how well the device maintains the voltage when a cartomizer is attached. Many devices tend to drop voltage when you actually use them. Some only a little, others drop a significant amount of voltage when you expect them to perform. Some devices are also amazingly inconsistent where the amount of voltage dropped varies depending on the voltage settings. So it's not unusual to see the voltage drop in a ego type device. hope this helps. Some devices are more efficient than others. Some drop more than others. I was reading about this before I answered this question. I also read that depending on the atomizer you might get more or less of a drop. Google voltage drop on Ego variable voltage devices. This might help explain it better. Best wishes.

 

[DaveP]

According to what I understand, eGo's are designed to operate around the 2 ohm range. If you are using a lower resistance coil or higher voltages the current load will be higher and the output regulation circuit will begin to approach limits and scale back. A 3200mah battery should be able to keep up with most atomizers, but it's all relative to load.

I remember seeing a video a couple of years back where Cozzicon reviewed the Vision Spinner. With a 3 ohm coil it was fairly accurate. When he installed a 2 ohm atomizer it started to scale back as he went up in dialed voltage. The higher he cranked it, the less it was able to keep up.