How does my V4L PCC work? (and suggestion)

[v1John]

How does my PCC work? It looks like the battery compartment is so little and yet it can charge my battery three or four times?

Is the USB wire input only, or is it dioded input only? I mean, is there a USB double female adaptor that can connect my PT to my PCC so I can carry my PT? (A portable PT case)

That is my suggestion, by the way, (A portable PT case) . The PCC is small and convenient the way a box of analogs used to be, and it has enough room to carry more twice the amount of batteries that it does. Even if it was twice as deep, it could hold more battery capacity, and then couldn't it be easily a portable PT?

I'm not really suggesting home-made mod by the general public, but couldn't V4L easily build them? There are plenty of vapers that could benefit from this. It could be carried in your pocket, or purse, or belt-clip. Some people would like one for camping trips, my car doesn't have a cigarette lighter, etc. If nothing else, the battery 'box' could last over 24 hours of use, couldn't it?

 

[v1John]

Also, I should have said in the title: How do my V4L things work?

I wonder also how my passthrough works. Is there an actual battery inside the battery-like casing that hooks up to my cartos? I would not think there is one, since the electrical source is within my computer. Correct?

 

[jdvorr]

How does my PCC work? It looks like the battery compartment is so little and yet it can charge my battery three or four times?

Yes

Is the USB wire input only, or is it dioded input only? I mean, is there a USB double female adaptor that can connect my PT to my PCC so I can carry my PT? (A portable PT case)

Yes & no, it's not a portable PT case.

That is my suggestion, by the way, (A portable PT case) . The PCC is small and convenient the way a box of analogs used to be, and it has enough room to carry more twice the amount of batteries that it does. Even if it was twice as deep, it could hold more battery capacity, and then couldn't it be easily a portable PT?

You should make one or get the portable power source others use and I don't know the name of.

I'm not really suggesting home-made mod by the general public, but couldn't V4L easily build them? There are plenty of vapers that could benefit from this. It could be carried in your pocket, or purse, or belt-clip. Some people would like one for camping trips, my car doesn't have a cigarette lighter, etc. If nothing else, the battery 'box' could last over 24 hours of use, couldn't it?

I suppose.

 

[jdvorr]

Also, I should have said in the title: How do my V4L things work?

I wonder also how my passthrough works. Is there an actual battery inside the battery-like casing that hooks up to my cartos? I would not think there is one, since the electrical source is within my computer. Correct?

No battery, hence the name pass thru.

 

[v1John]

No battery, hence the name pass thru.

Thanks, jdvorr. So it's probably mostly hollow then, I would think. Maybe it just has the switch, some voltage controllers and small cirsuits.

But if the case turned into a portable USB passthrough, I wonder if the passthrough itself could have a 3 to 4 ml dynamic reservoir, with a ring around it that every click you tun it it adds a drop to the cartomizer. I thought this because there could be enough room inside of them to do this, since there is no battery. The battery 'pack' is actually the portable case. If done, I imagine the passthrough case would still be just a tad bit longer and just a tad bit wider, but maybe too slightly to really matter.

I know that mods are made right and left, but this idea of the battery source pack being in the portable case I like better. I really don't think people would like to be walking in a store parking lot or office building, looking like they're smoking their cellphone or a 12 inch flashlight . The portable passthrough would be actually shorter than a V4L xl battery, and the small case can already fit in pockets, purses, and belt clips. The power pack would last over 24hrs. of vaping before charging, and the passthrough casing would hold mls. of juice, replenishing the cart via a small rod in the center of the center-post, all at the turn of a clicking ring on the passthrough. The ring would lock when not required, you would need to slide it first, then turn a click at a time.

 

[v1John]

This would require a different cart, so it's not necessary. The PT and carts are too perfect enough as they are. (So never mind about the fillablle PT and different cart).

The next case, however, can easily be both the multi-charger suggested somewhere, and portable PT described above.

Picture a case about twice as thick in fron of you. What you do is you put however many batteries it takes, and screw them on so they can charge up, at home, while the case is hooked up to the computer USB.
All the batteries then charge up simultaneously. When a certain LED lets you know, it means everything is ready.

The user then basically has a multi-charger/PPT, it can be used to charge 6 to 8 batteries at once. Or with the batteries left in there, the whole case can be carried and used to run a passthrough , for 24 or 48 hours between charges (or more)?

 

[wader2k]

I think you want a Kensington Power Pak.....

Not sure about the specs, but I don't believe the PCC can put out enough current to power the Passthrough.

 

[jamvector]

I suggest using 2 XL manual V4L batteries; they seem to be really portable. When one flashes, switch to the other one; or better yet, have two different flavored carts and alternate all day and into the next before having to charge them.

Edit: No offense intended by the sarcasm, but the only benefit of the PT is 5V vs 3.7V. The PT is intended for fixed position vaping, the batteries (especially my beloved XL's) last a very long time and are the best portable option by far. I guess I just don't understand why so many people keep trying to make bigger and bigger battery packs to use PT's away from a USB port, when you have these amazingly great batteries at our disposal?

 

[v1John]

Right, not the current PCC, but a possible next PCC made to recharge 4 to 8 batteries at the same time just might be able to.

That's interesting, the Kesington, thanks:
Portable Power Pack for Mobile Devices - K38021US - Kensington

It says output max 5V USB, 1.5 A
The capacity is 1800mAh

This just may run the PT real well, but I don't know for how long yet.
Thanks, wader2K.

 

[v1John]

Eventually I do hope to have lots of short ones and XL's too, but carrying a 5V passthrough on a beltclip would be wonderful sometimes too.

 

[wader2k]

Welcome!

ps. Jam.....Some us just really like Vaping at 5V......or even 6V.

 

[Guanu]

i recently bought one of these

Energizer® Energi To Go® Rechargeable Power Packs | XP2000 Power Pack

its smaller and lighter than my cell phone, and can charge a reg. size battery over 6 times on a single charge! this thing is awesome, i dont need a pcc because of it, its so small and light its amazing!

btw, it was 40 bux for the xp2000 model at office depot...

G

 

[v1John]

i recently bought one of these

Energizer® Energi To Go® Rechargeable Power Packs | XP2000 Power Pack

its smaller and lighter than my cell phone, and can charge a reg. size battery over 6 times on a single charge! this thing is awesome, i dont need a pcc because of it, its so small and light its amazing!

btw, it was 40 bux for the xp2000 model at office depot...

G

That's interesting too, and they have other models too. This one is only 500 milliamps, though.
I wonder how many mA the PT needs.
I'm going to stock up on passthroughs and powerpacks also , and let smoking friends sample out brand new prefilled carts that I can give give them straight out of a box.

 

[v1John]

Sorry, I mistakenly wrote 1.5 mA (milliamps) for the Kesington, but have now edited it to show the proper amperage: 1.5 A !

 

[Guanu]

I never tried a pt on it, for theres no need because it charges a batt faster than computers usb port, but in order for it to charge, you have to plug in the charger, then press the check/on button for it to start charging, its not a live plug till you press it, so you'd have to press it everytime you draw from the pcc

G

 

[lizziebith]

I use that Kensington for my PT, and I've been very happy with it -- I can still use my PT while freeing up my various other USB accessories/ports for charging.

 

[Adrenalynn]

I wonder how many mA the PT needs.

Don't confuse mAh with mA.

Current draw on the PT depends on the cartomizer in use. 800mA typical for some of the old cartomizers, arguably 1500, even 1800 mA on some of the premium types.

>> but I don't know for how long yet.

A bit more than an hour of use assuming the use isn't constant. If it is constant, less than an hour. And that also assumes the marketing department for the power pack wasn't on too much crack-rock at the time. Like "well, if you defeat the protection circuitry and run it until it bursts into flames you can get 1800mA from it". The only way to know is to test it, preferably on a datalogging Li* battery profiler.