Just got done with my first flashlight mod. When I realized that the donor flashlight was a 6 LED version leaving the center of the board open, I couldn't resist. The big button is for vapor, the little one for light.
Flashlight AND mod
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i just made a similar mod...but i still used the orig battery setup..ie: 3x aaa at 1.2volts each...gives out a total of arnd 3.6volts...the aaa batteries i used are rechargeable NiMh 1000mah...but it doesnt seem to last that long...orig battery on my 501 last longer than the mod i made...was hoping that i would get more vapin hours on the mod vs the orig batteries...
am i missing out on something here..
thanks
am i missing out on something here..
thanks
Your 510 battery should give out about 4.2 volts on a fresh charge. this could explain your lack of vapor with the three rechargeables.
try it with some fresh alkalines (Good ones, not the cheapies) at 1.5 each and it will work better, but of course that's going to be costly in the long run. Good for an emergency back up though.
My 3xAA mod I made a while back worked pretty well. When charged, each cell registered about 1.4-1.6v, so comparable to a fully charged 3.7v at 4.2v. It may be that using 2600 mah AAs allowed the voltage to drop less than using the AAAs at a lower mah. Other than that I would think that this setup should work well for about a full day's vape.
My first mod was a box mod with 3 rechargeable AAAs (rated at 1.2v) and I wasn't happy with it either. Using alkalines rated at 1.5 helped, but who wants to keep buying alkalines.
This mod uses a 3.7v CR123 and I found a great spacer in the form of the center of a pop-up sprinkler head. The neat thing was that the top of it has an adjusting screw on it that I used for the positive battery post.
Another note on this mod is that I used a non-functioning M401 atomizer as a battery connector for a 510 atomizer and it worked great.
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