How to: Build the Puck

[Pepe Le Vapse]

May I have a moment of silence for the passing of one of my first Pucks that I ever built...
After 6 months of faithful service daily, the atty connector developed a short, collapsed the
battery springs, the led (second one, after a previous repair) leads keep breaking 'till they are
too short to solder onto. I was able to stretch the battery springs enough to make contact,
and kludged the atty connector so it works, the batteries just need to be recharged after going
through a dead short (still work fine). Dropping it a half dozen time likely didn't help with it's
life expectancy.

So now I'm faced with investing $10 in a new Puck mod, but I wanted my first and favorite
to have a decent burial, and be remembered fondly.....

 

[TomCatt]

Hey Stosh, sorry to hear about your loss.

Have you looked at my Profile pic? My first Puck...shall we say...had something applied to it. While still in working order, and I still have it intact, I can't bring myself to vape from it

You always remember your first!

 

[ThePuck]

I'm sorry if you went to view the tutorial and there were no photos. I moved the webspace where the photos were stored and low and behold, windows changed the case of the file extension to uppercase for some reason. All of the links on the forum here are looking for a lowercase extension (jpg vs JPG). My webspace, being linux, is case sensitive so when the forum went looking for the photos, it couldn't find them. I corrected all of the extensions of the photos to lowercase in my webspace and the photos are back.

 

[TomCatt]

I did notice that ThePuck; but I figured that since you did the Puck website, everyone could still find the info.

Computers have a mind of their own sometimes


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[funrotor]

I have done 2 pucks so far ...

I did do the wiring a little different ...

Here's another pick of the puck ...

And thank you all pucksters for the info on how to build them and the puck for tutorial!!!

 

[JCG95]

ThePuck I just wanna thank you for the pics and step by step tutorial on your puckecig.com. Last night I built my first Puck following every step and it worked out great. Not posting any pics because it looks exactly the same as the way you instructed to do it. The only thing I did different was that I used a size N power jack so it would work the KR808 cartomizers I had. This is the first mod I made and it was very fun and very fun to use.

 

[pnguin]

I love these aluminum boxes. $8 locally at Gateway electronics in St. Louis. Sticking to the Puck principal-all parts bought locally, box and push button switch from Gateway. 4aaa holder and slide on/off switch from Radio Shack. Batteries from Dollar General. I call it the Little buddy because I built a larger VV box with the evercool circuit and all the bells and whistles. I find that I have the VV box set at 4.6 so I might as well have saved the money and just stuck with the 4AAA's.

 

[funrotor]

Once you go puck, you never go back.

Nice box

 

[JCG95]

Just wanted to add,to anyone that wants to build one but doesn't have a drill, I made all the holes on the Puck with my pocket knife. I have a drill was just too lazy to get it and find the bits. Just take your time reaming the holes to fit the parts. This a fun mod to build and like everyone else I now have an urge to build a couple more just because i can. Thanks again to ThePuck.
Happy Holidays everyone and have a Happy New Year.

 

[Taintedhalo]

Ok so now I know I am electronically challenged. I made a puck but it wouldn't work at all. My son "fiddled" with it and now it produces vapor but no led.(hey I can live without an led) But problem is all my juices that tasted fine on the ego and great on a dual coil now taste like perfumey soap. Is it because of the higher voltage (thought dual coils were supposed to mimic 5 volt) or is ther still something wrong with the mod? Oh I have a regular 510 atomizer on it and tried dripping and the cartridge that came with the atomizer. I use Flavor apprentice as my flavoring in my juice if that helps.

 

[TomCatt]

My AAA Pucks with freshly charged batteries and 3.2 ohm clearomizer give a loaded voltage of ~4.8. What ohm atty/carto are you using? If you put the atty/carto you've used on the Puck back on one of your other PVs, does it taste the same/different than w/ Puck?

 

[BJ43]

My AAA Pucks with freshly charged batteries and 3.2 ohm clearomizer give a loaded voltage of ~4.8. What ohm atty/carto are you using? If you put the atty/carto you've used on the Puck back on one of your other PVs, does it taste the same/different than w/ Puck?

What TomCatt asked is very important, to me with over three years of vaping, every new atty or coil tastes different. Add VV and each voltage changes the taste, I finally gave up trying to get the same exact taste and just consider it a new girlfriend and enjoy it. It keeps me off analogs and my wife won't allow analog girlfriends.

 

[TomCatt]

What TomCatt asked is very important, to me with over three years of vaping, every new atty or coil tastes different. Add VV and each voltage changes the taste, I finally gave up trying to get the same exact taste and just consider it a new girlfriend and enjoy it. It keeps me off analogs and my wife won't allow analog girlfriends.

Yeah, wives what's with them?

 

[Taintedhalo]

Ahhhh haaaa it was the atty I think ...less soapy on the ego but still I can detect it. I have some 3.0 omh attys on the way. I have no idea of the omh a friend bought it for me from a convience store here that sells a few ecig things. It is meant for a joye 510 but the box had nothing on it about the omhs. I must say this was a lot of fun to build even if I had to have my son redo some of it. That was my fault not the design in any way. I am now eyeballing the VV but I promise to let my son do the wiring. LOL

Can we use dual coils on these??? I am using aa so lower omhs affecting battery life isn't a big deal at 2 omhs it should still get great battery life.

 

[TomCatt]

I'm not positive; but I seem to recall Stosh saying he is using DCs on his Pucks.

 

[Taintedhalo]

Thanks TomCatt can't wait for my new cartos to come in now....Got some puffs on it with my dual carto I have that is dying and no soapy. I know I am gonna love it when the new ones come in and I get to really taste it. Thanks again for helping me with the problem we are on a very tight budget here so this was the only way I was gonna get a mod:::::does the snoopy dance:::: cause it works!

 

[Stosh]

Tom is correct, I've been using the DC tanks from Madvapes on my Pucks with great results. I never liked the DC as much without the tank as they seemed to go dry too fast, wouldn't wick my 50/50 mix juice fast enough. The tanks are a game changer, 2.0 ohm cartos have 2 - 4ohm coils so the Puck doesn't burn the juice with 4.8v but has enough power to heat them quite nicely.

 

[Taintedhalo]

Thanks Stosh....so the 2ohm ones are really 4 ohm just set up different? So does this mean the won't drain the battery like a regular 2ohm carto? Right now I have really only got to try em on my ego and I loved it. Building a tank mod as soon as my cartos come in.

 

[TomCatt]

Thanks Stosh....so the 2ohm ones are really 4 ohm just set up different? So does this mean the won't drain the battery like a regular 2ohm carto? Right now I have really only got to try em on my ego and I loved it. Building a tank mod as soon as my cartos come in.

The 2 ohm DCs are 2 ohms. There are two 4 ohm coils hooked up in parallel which drops the overall resistance to 2 ohms. Yeah, still trying to get my mind around that too; but it's one of those "Law" thingies

 

[Taintedhalo]

Ah ok ... so figure half the life on the batteries. Puck said he got 11-12 hrs on aaa with a 2.0 ohm 510. That's about what my ego gets and I am ok with that. Mine has aa batteries though so should get more than that right? If not I have a second set as backups already charged.