My first mod (Nico-box)

[Sergey]

Hello everyone. My Prodigy gave up on me and while waiting for something better looking that you'll see below, I made this. Really easy. About 30 min it
took me (mostly soldering without the proper bench, had my parts literally in the air and done it standing up right).
You'll need:
- 2x 100 microF capacitors for the booster board
- 1x booster board from TI
- a bit of wire
- 1x switch
- 1x mono jack (as 801 adapter)
- 1x box to put everything into
- 1x18650 battery (charged)

Instructions:
Solder 2 capacitors as per TI instructions onto the board.
Solder 2 red wires to the switch
Solder 1 red wire from the switch to the Vin on the bard
Solder 3 black wires to the board where it says "1"
Solder 1 black wire from above to capacitor "-" on the Vout side
Use the other 2 black wires from above for the battery "-" and solder another to mono jack "-" end.
Solder 1 red wire from Vout on the booster board to mono jack's center pin (easily made with some tape as insulator and a screw in the middle)

Done.
My battery is connected with some tape to hold the connectors in place as
I did not have any springs etc to keep it neat.

Not the best mod in the world, but easy to make.
Enjoy!

 

[jxmiller]

I have seen posts here about TI boards... what do they do again?

 

[Sergey]

These are DC booster boards. They take the voltage from 3.7v to 5v DC.
2 things I wanted to add to my post:
1. Use protected batteries
2. Do not use batteries like CR2, CR123 even 14500 do not work. Still have to work out why, but I think they do not provide enough amperage. Tried with 14500 (as I had the enclosure for them), but did not work. Got about 2 sec worth of vape, then the board shut off. Had to click the switch again to get another 2 sec =(

 

[opuscroakus]

These are DC booster boards. They take the voltage from 3.7v to 5v DC.
2 things I wanted to add to my post:
1. Use protected batteries
2. Do not use batteries like CR2, CR123 even 14500 do not work. Still have to work out why, but I think they do not provide enough amperage. Tried with 14500 (as I had the enclosure for them), but did not work. Got about 2 sec worth of vape, then the board shut off. Had to click the switch again to get another 2 sec =(

A single 14500 may be problematic but I run this setup with 2 14500's in parallel and it works fine.

 

[jj2]

Congrats. It is a proud moment. I got two and I don't even use my factory batteries anymore.

 

[Vapaholic]

nice job man!

 

[nick76]

Nice job Sergey! enjoy 801-5V!

Nick

 

[Sergey]

I should really thank Nick76 and everyone who shared their howtos. Thanks guys!

 

[j0ker]

Nice job Sergey!

 

[enraged_hunter]

nice job, i need to get off my .... and make one

 

[oatt]

Wow nice..

 

[fllinton]

Sergey how are the caps soldered on the board I cant find info on where they go?