The Provari was almost obviously designed around and for the AW IMR 18650 button tops that they sell and use. I've disassembled my Provari and the battery lines up perfectly with the small hinges located here.
Now... while the AW IMR's are fine and dandy it's my personal opinion that they're rather pricey compared to their brotherly, and sometimes preferred alternatives, the Panasonic 2250mah IMR batteries.
and those are all I use. Most of the time they work great but sometimes, mostly due to Orbtronic's wrapping, the button-top version of this battery still can't quite reach the pin.
I think this is a little restrictive. If the pin on the board was flush, you could use any IMR 18650 battery in existence regardless of button or no button. I know there are people out there who use magnets with their Provaris but I don't really want to join the club of people who are magnetizing boost converters.
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I'm not a normal human being. I'm a moody, scatterbrained idiot and sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn't.
In that understanding of myself, I felt it necessary to fix my issue.
So I took my Provari apart, dremeled a battery contact to fit in between the grooves that held the original battery pin, fit the battery contact into the groove and soldered it to the Provari's original pin, all in the efforts of making it so that half of my 18650's could also work in my Provari, rather than just lavatubes and box mods.
Proof
(As for the addressing myself as "gossamer", this post was meant originally for Reddit, that's my username there)
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So that's that, I guess. Discussion? Anyone?
Now... while the AW IMR's are fine and dandy it's my personal opinion that they're rather pricey compared to their brotherly, and sometimes preferred alternatives, the Panasonic 2250mah IMR batteries.
and those are all I use. Most of the time they work great but sometimes, mostly due to Orbtronic's wrapping, the button-top version of this battery still can't quite reach the pin.
I think this is a little restrictive. If the pin on the board was flush, you could use any IMR 18650 battery in existence regardless of button or no button. I know there are people out there who use magnets with their Provaris but I don't really want to join the club of people who are magnetizing boost converters.
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I'm not a normal human being. I'm a moody, scatterbrained idiot and sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn't.
In that understanding of myself, I felt it necessary to fix my issue.
So I took my Provari apart, dremeled a battery contact to fit in between the grooves that held the original battery pin, fit the battery contact into the groove and soldered it to the Provari's original pin, all in the efforts of making it so that half of my 18650's could also work in my Provari, rather than just lavatubes and box mods.
Proof
(As for the addressing myself as "gossamer", this post was meant originally for Reddit, that's my username there)
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So that's that, I guess. Discussion? Anyone?
