New to mech mods. Battery low indications?

[Tom Fuller]

My mech will be here Monday and I am trying to prepare so I don't destroy batteries. I have all the volt meters and what not but don't really won't to tote around my volt meter to check battery status.

Any tips to recognize when a battery is low would be great.

Any recommendations on a small battery volt meter would be good as well. I have seen a few with a google search however I value the opinions of the ECF community more than reviews found randomly.

Thanks in advance.


Live Long and vape!

 

[PaulBHC]

Sorry to lol but I have a little mod with 18350 and I will be vaping along happily and start to get a what the heck is wrong with this thing moment. I switch the battery and bingo, back to normal. Might not be as obvious with an high mah 18650.

I would think that the inline tube style output tester would be what you are looking for. Around $12-15. It will also give you volt drop readings to tell you how much loss between the battery and topper.

 

[Myrany]

Some people can sense the change in the vape quality when the battery is getting low. I never could until it was far to low. It took about a week but I checked my battery with a multimeter every hour and noted how much juice I had used during that time. Since I pretty much build my attys at the same resistance I eventually figured out how much juice I could vape (in mL) before I needed to change the battery.

 

[VaPreis]

When I am unsatisfied with the vapor produced, I switch batteries. On a mechanical mod, this happens way before the battery is critically low for me, and generally is somewhere around 3.6 volts.

 

[Gibbz]

I got into a habit of switching batteries at certain times of the day - fresh one in the morning, change at lunch, and again around dinner time. I run a single .5 and my battery is usually around 3.7-3.8 when i swap it out.

 

[supertrunker]

At about 3.6v the vape you get will be rather anaemic. You will notice it easily after using a couple of batteries. Just don't run them until they are totally dead and you'll be fine.

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[Funk Dracula]

You'll know when it's time to change out batteries do to performance. It's not likely, in the slightest, that you will vape a battery down to a level close to ruining the battery, because at that point, it'll be an incredibly weak ... and anemic vape. You dig?

I can see people vaping batteries down to maybe a 3.3V discharge at an extreme, but at that point they have got to be thinking: "This vape sucks, it's almost dead." The charting discharge curves of most batteries I've seen tend to nose dive below 3.3V. It's just very, very, very unlikely you'll not realize it's time to change batteries before it's too late.

I seem to switch out batteries at 3.6ish Volts on the money. As soon as it crosses the 3.7V plateau, I notice straight away.

It's not going to be the big deal or hassle that you're thinking it is, you'll see soon enough. It becomes second nature.

Cheers

 

[The Ministry]

Yeah, as stated it becomes something you notice. You notice a change in the vape, that's the indicator.

I carried an APV around for a while (when I started using a mech) and constantly checked my voltage at work, after a while I started to tell when it had hit around 3.8, and could definitely tell when it had dropped to the 3.5 zone. My coils tell me too (in terms of crackle and pop) if it's hitting and I can't hear anything, it's time to swap out.

It's getting familiar with it, really.

 

[Froth]

3.4v to 3.6v and I'm swapping batteries, vapor really dies off at 3.4v. You'll get the hang of it, I worried about it too but then I found out just how noticeable the drop off is, no issues. For the first month I would pull my batteries when I thought they were low, then measure the remaining voltage and see what voltage I was at. That helped me learn what "low" felt like.

 

[Tom Fuller]

Perfect. Thanks y'all


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