I am tryin to build one of these, starting off with a 4 AA box , can some one help me out by posting a photo of the connections exposed or a diagram? much appreciated.
Nice Esko--Looks great. What did you decide on for batteries with yours---Sun
Thanks! Well, this one is a passthrough so it has no battery. I'm using the powermonkey as my portable power source. Initially I tried using just a single AA battery (lithium disposable) but that wasn't enough to get the atomizer going. I considered for half a second to go back to radio shack tomorrow to get some better batteries but I couldn't help myself since I wanted to try it out today! I do have some batteries on order from dealextreme but those will go toward my magnum mod if I ever get brave enough to try that one out. I couldn't find any of those n coax connectors at RS today so I guess I'll just have to wait for a battery or another atomizer to die to try something fancier.
I do have another battery housing and another switch on hand so I might try putting something together with a longtotem atomizer/cart to see how that works out with usb power since the parts are all dirt cheap.
Thanks for all the tips everyone! I finally put together my first (successful) mod today. After a failed attempt at a usb passthrough, and a sorta failed attempt at a juicebox (not enough battery power), I learned from all my mistakes (and burns) and finally made a usb juicebox.
I didn't have the heart to kill a battery so I just used one of my old worn out atomizers which is now a beast! Yeah I went overboard on the switch but it was the only one I had lying around since I had been considering tackling a magnum one of these days. I really can't believe how easy these are with the battery cases. I got another lying around so I may put together another later on. Here's a picture of my usb juicebox along with a picture of it hooked up to my power monkey.
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Good job, those battery boxes make great enclosures for this stuff.
Would a single one of these batteries work using a two AA battery holder from RS?
DealExtreme: $6.75 TrustFire 18650 3.7V 2500mAh Rechargeable Lithium Batteries (2-Pack)
If you scrape away some of the divider in a 2 AA holder, and re-locate the connector for the negative end you can squeeze in 2 CR2s and get 6+ volts of power and massive vapour
Thanks Nico, so I could do a 2 x size AA battery holder and use only one of this type of battery. Or I can use 3 x AAA battery holder and use 1.2V AA batteries like the Juicebox mod.
I've also got the 3.6V 'AAA' Size battery for the E-cigar. I was thinking of making a small unit using the Rat Shack AAA x 2 battery holder. It sure looks an aweful lot like the battery case for the newer David Yang USB Passthroughs.
DSE901 USB passthrough- black - e-Cigs Mini e-Cig DSE901 - Eastmall International Co.,Ltd
How is the shipping from Deal Extreme?
The 6V seems to work fine for many modders here. No early ATM failures reported yet-I am 1 month on same atm-heavy use. Only put down when it gets really hot.
ATM failures seem to be random to me and not related to 6V. I also use 5V usb and wall plug-in devices.
The SD-which continues to get great reviews uses 6V.
Won't that cause premature failure of the atomizer?