Help with battery mah

[nickisagod]

Hi, Got my first mod kit (4nine mod clone and kayfun clone) this weekend after using ego kits for a couple of years. I got a soshine charger with the kit but the battery I got (i was told was recovered from a laptop) when fully charged reads as 157 mah. Sorry for my ignorance but that isnt very good is it?

 

[JKnight5]

Buy some sony vtc5 batteries. 157 sounds super low


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[Susan~S]

Throw out that battery and get a decent charger if you are going to be using an unregulated APV. XTAR is one of the best, Nitecore is also good.

 

[Rossnoss]

I have a refillable incredipen vaporizer - 230mah battery. Funny because it is about a third of the size of my buddies mod.

 

[DavidOck]

Uh, you can't read mAh on a battery, other than maybe the label.

You can read volts. If that's 1.57 volts, the battery is fit to be recycled. If it's from a laptop, it's not suitable for vaping. The discharge curve can't handle the power that vaping needs, and you have a time bomb in hour hand.

 

[Susan~S]

To quote Baditude (our resident battery expert):
"Read up. It's homework time!"

Batteries, Chargers and Multi-Meters Forum !

You are the only one responsible for safety when you use an unregulated devise. Your battery doesn't care how uninformed/informed you are.

You make a mistake - tick, tick, BOOM!

 

[nickisagod]

Hi, thanks for the quick replies, It is reading 4.2 volts and defiantly displays 157mah the videos I have seen if the charger show battery's with 1500 to 2000 mah, that's why I wanted to check.


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[zoiDman]

Hi, Got my first Mod kit (4nine mod clone and Kayfun clone) this weekend after using ego kits for a couple of years. I got a soshine charger with the kit but the battery I got (i was told was recovered from a laptop) when fully charged reads as 157 mah. Sorry for my ignorance but that isnt very good is it?

2 Questions:

1 - How are you reading the mah ?

2 - Why are you using a Used Battery Scavenged from a Laptop?

 

[KenD]

Do you have the Soshine h2 charger? I have one (v2, the v1 doesn't charge properly) and I'm quite happy with it. The mAh reading it shows is not the total capacity of the battery but an indication of how much energy has been charged in the charging cycle. This means that the buffer l number will depend on how discharged the battery was when it was put on the charger. If it was at 4.0v or so then 157 mAh sounds about correct. In any case, you should not use batteries sourced from a laptop battery pack. Use only high discharge safe chemistry (IMR/hybrid) batteries, and educate yourself on battery safety and ohms law. I also believe the 4nine needs button top batteries, and the atomizer needs to have a 510 pin (positive) that protrudes significantly. Otherwise you risk shorting the mod, and with the wrong batteries you might then be dealing with something akin to a pipe bomb.

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[nickisagod]

I am not sure where it was scavanged from I just assumed it was prob a laptop. It's a 18650 battery.

Thanks KenD that makes a lot of sense. It is a mk2 with the changed LCD display. The reading of mah for the charge has to be right as it was about 4 volts when I charged it


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