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Safe?, No.
4.2v / .1Ω = 42a.
Vtc 4 = 23a CDR cell (at best), it is never safe to exceed any cells CDR.
It isn't 'safe' to use a mechanical at all unless you're familiar with basic battery selection and safety, understand ohms law and have a way to accurately measure resistance.
4.2v / .1Ω = 42a.
Vtc 4 = 23a CDR cell (at best), it is never safe to exceed any cells CDR.
It isn't 'safe' to use a mechanical at all unless you're familiar with basic battery selection and safety, understand ohms law and have a way to accurately measure resistance.
As @Don29palms said, no, in a mech anyway. And most of the time in anything else as well. It could theoretically be done with a regulated mod IF the voltage was kept low enough. There’s a really good chance that safe level would be too low for the device to work well though.
there are other issues to consider as well. As ohms start to approach zero measurement gets less accurate variation over time gets more pronounced, and fractions of an ohm get more important. It’s a bad combination safety wise.
there are other issues to consider as well. As ohms start to approach zero measurement gets less accurate variation over time gets more pronounced, and fractions of an ohm get more important. It’s a bad combination safety wise.
Are you using a mech right now and what is your current setup?(battery-ohms)
If it is hybrid are you aware that you must only use atty with protruding 510 center pin?
If it is hybrid are you aware that you must only use atty with protruding 510 center pin?
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I don't consider .1ohms safe on anything. Then comes the question--why does anyone want to vape at 175W? .3ohms with a 4.2V fully charged battery--59W--too hot for my tastes, but many people like it that way.
.2ohms--88W--this is already past most peoples' tolerance.
.1ohms--176W--do remember that batteries generally don't vent until they get REALLY hot. Don't hold on.
.2ohms--88W--this is already past most peoples' tolerance.
.1ohms--176W--do remember that batteries generally don't vent until they get REALLY hot. Don't hold on.
I build and sometime sell my coils. I've had people ask me to build .08-.1ohm coils. I absolutely will not do it. I won't be responsible for someone else's stupidity.
No, not safe. Using an Ohms Law Calculator, a 0.1 ohm coil will have a 42 amp draw. The Sony VTC4 is just a 20 amp battery, so you'd be asking the battery to put out over twice the current of its amp rating.
Batteries have a "pulse" rating and a "continuous discharge rating" (CDR). We ignore the pulse rating and only consider the CDR when using ohm's law calculations. The pulse rating is useless for our purposes.
Explain it to the Vape Noob: Ohm's Law Calculations for a Mechanical Mod
A Beginner's Guide to Your First Mechanical Mod
Battery Basics for Mods: The Definative Battery Guide for Vaping
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Batteries have a "pulse" rating and a "continuous discharge rating" (CDR). We ignore the pulse rating and only consider the CDR when using ohm's law calculations. The pulse rating is useless for our purposes.
Explain it to the Vape Noob: Ohm's Law Calculations for a Mechanical Mod
A Beginner's Guide to Your First Mechanical Mod
Battery Basics for Mods: The Definative Battery Guide for Vaping
Are You Using a Rewrap (Rebranded or Aftermarket) Battery?
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UPDATE: @Punk In Drublic makes a narrow point.
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UPDATE: @Punk In Drublic makes a narrow point.
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All responses assume the OP is using a mechanical device – which if that is true, I would agree.
But if using a regulated device, there is nothing wrong with a 0.1 ohm coil. If resistance is not supported by the device, it just will not fire. A regulated device separates coil from battery – the battery never see’s the coils resistance
What becomes important is the power in which the user operates at, which for a single VTC 4 should not be higher than 60 watts, for dual VTC 4’s, 120 watts
But if using a regulated device, there is nothing wrong with a 0.1 ohm coil. If resistance is not supported by the device, it just will not fire. A regulated device separates coil from battery – the battery never see’s the coils resistance
What becomes important is the power in which the user operates at, which for a single VTC 4 should not be higher than 60 watts, for dual VTC 4’s, 120 watts
A very narrow disagreement but one none the less. Not “nothing” as in nothing possible wrong. The regulated device
it would still ba safeER than a mech because there would be various cutouts to protect the user if it failed, but pure safe? No.
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Within this thread he did not state what type of device he is using. Perhaps in another thread this was mentioned but I cannot be bothered to look.
In so many words, I stated with my above comment that the power output must be within the batteries CDR, and gave examples of 60 watts for a 20 amp single cell and 120 watts for a dual cell of the same CDR. If within those setting resistance is irrelevant assuming it is supported by the device. If it is not supported, the device will not fire.
So explain for the sake of myself and the OP what would happen if using a 0.1 ohm coil on a regulated device?
I read that as equal to, "Is it safe to drive my car at 100mph?" The speedometer goes to 120.
Same answer that you guys gave him. Spot on.
Same answer that you guys gave him. Spot on.
If you use a Mech Mod, the 1st and The Most Important Thing you have to be able to do is to be Able to Calculate How Many Amps your Build is going to Draw from your Battery(s).
If you Can't do this, then put the Mech in a drawer and Use a Regulated Mod until you can.
Most regulated mods cut out at somewhere between .2 and .5ohms. So using a regulated device on this build will result in nothing.
you are correct. Somewhere in my head “vtc4” got listed as a regulated mod. It’s just a battery. I’d looked that up once before even. Twice fail on my part.
should not fire anyway. Will not if the safety systems work correctly. SafeER. 90-99.9% safer maybe? Hard to know.
I’ve done it on a dual battery regulated mod and gotten away with it. I didn’t feel super safe though. I was using the very ageis legend I’m using right now with LG2s which have fairly similar specs. What I noticed is that 0.1 ohm was hard to measure. It got below .08 at one point according to the mod readout which isn’t that trustable at numbers that low to begin with. It could possibly been as low as .06. The vagaries of ultra low ohm ratings were starting to make themselves known. There’s a record of the whole thing around here somewhere from months and months ago. Iirc I needed ~90w+ to make the thing work ok. I could be wrong about that. On a dual battery regulated mod that’s 45w per battery. An issue though is many regulated mods have max wattages higher than any battery can produce safely. They’ll often still do it. Just not safely.
So there are two problems:
1: a single battery mech: no on basis of battery stats alone ignoring variances in ohms.
2: a single battery regulated mod: softer no on the basis of the combination of battery stats and ohm variance issues.
3: dual battery mech: softer no on the grounds of ohm variance.
4: dual battery regulated mod (the one I actually did, and feel I got a bit lucky surviving with my hardware intact) “even softer no verging on a provisional maybe just once” on the grounds of ohm variance. The device was new at the time. It may have even cut out once or twice. I don’t remember.
part of the issue is how safe does it have to be before it is “safe”? If that .1 ohm is a guaranteed number it can be done. The problem is there’s no way to guarantee that .1 stays .1
I had overlooked that this was the mechanical mod section and apologise for my post on regulated devices. Would be nice if the OP could state what he is using for clarification.
But to not take this thread off topic with the functionalities of a regulated device, @bombastinator I will PM my response.
But to not take this thread off topic with the functionalities of a regulated device, @bombastinator I will PM my response.
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