Making The Boxmod 102 .. The Big Screw-Up

[asnider123]

Tonite I promised a lodge brother I would make him a 3.7v boxmod, just like the one I made last nite for my in-laws. So, cocky as I am, I decided to go out to the drillpress and get busy drilling holes. Guess what?

I drilled all the holes on the wrong side of the box .. Look (last nite on the left)


Well, so as not to waste a $1 box, I made some redesigns on the fly


As you can see, the innards look way different than the mod in Boxmods 101 .. besides having the circuitry and battery opposite of the previous mod, I decided to wire it "n-channel"-like, switching the negative rather than the positive side. Since I did that, I thought, I might as well use a bi-colored LED.

Here's the mod with the master switch ON


And here is it while vaping. Note the LED is now RED (the dominant color)


Note from picture #2, the LED has 3 legs. The long one is B- RED, the medium one is B- Green, the center conductor is B+ .. I put a single current-limiting resistor on the B+ leg.

Cost: the same as the previous one: about 3 bucks.

Bottom line: cheapskates don't throw anything away, they work around their mistakes

 

[WillieB69]

I guess I never realized there was a "right" side and a "wrong" side for a 3.7 mod.
At least you were able to work around the issues and salvage it.

 

[hairball]

I've never built one before but I'm going to try this weekend. If I did something like that I would give up all together. I'm hoping by doing an easy 3.7v box mod, that'll learn the basics and can do bigger box mods in the future. I'll take baby steps for right now. I wish I had your knowledge to be able to correct a mistake like that. Kudos to you!

 

[lynleestar]

oooh~! Good luck hairball, let me know how it goes!!!

 

[breaktru]

If you hold it up to a mirror it looks right to me.

 

[asnider123]

If you hold it up to a mirror it looks right to me.

Yer right! HAHAHA

It actually turned out pretty good It's not the wrong side, just different ...

 

[WillyB]

Funny post, that's the way I've always built them. Fumbling around to do it like in your first example seems like the complicated way to me.

 

[asnider123]

Well, I gave my lodge brother his new mod, with a 1/2 dozen cartomizers, 2 bottles of juice, battery and charger tonite. He took a big drag on 24mg Virginia MV chicom juice, he coughed and sputtered and turned green He said "WOW, that's great!" That's good, I thought he was gonna clobber me LOL

I guess, when I give someone a PV for the first time, I had better give them directions: mouth drag first, then into the lungs, he was overwhelmed by the vape. Guess it works good He kept going back to the mod all evening, maybe have a new convert ....

 

[TxParamedic]

Making a try at following in you footsteps! I bought a couple of box mod kits from madvapes and last night put the first one together and it works!!!!! I'm going to wait to get a smaller soldering iron with a finer point to do the other one. The one I have is way too big for this kind of thing. I think I see the principles so now to start playing! Everything looks like a potential mod now!

 

[asnider123]

Yay for Tx!!!! You better watch out, it's really addicting (in a good way) .. I started out making one for myself, now I am making basic mods like these to help my friends kick the habit. Let's see ..... it's 7 so far I have built to give away.

My only prob is finding a cheap source for 14500's and chargers, I can build the box for about 3 bucks, but it costs me 17 for a charger and a couple of batteries and about $10 for a package of cartomizers. So each "giveaway" is costing about 30 bucks. You know, that's fine I guess, after all it may make a significant change in a friends' life.

 

[Shadow102]

My only prob is finding a cheap source for 14500's and chargers, I can build the box for about 3 bucks, but it costs me 17 for a charger and a couple of batteries and about $10 for a package of cartomizers. So each "giveaway" is costing about 30 bucks. You know, that's fine I guess, after all it may make a significant change in a friends' life.

You can snag a 5 pack of cartos from GP for $4.99 (no brand listed, looks like smoke tech though) or if you wanna go Boge, they're a buck more. But yeah, battery prices when you add in a charger can get a little pricey for give-aways, still cheaper than a eGo, Riva, Volt etc. battery though.

 

[TxParamedic]

I started out with an 808 type ecig and moved on quickly but I've kept the 808's to loan out and now there are seven of us in the office vaping.