How do figure out what mah and amps to use?
With high power vaporizers, your first priority when choosing which battery to use in it is the battery's current rating, or the amp rating. Technically, this is the battery's continuous discharge rate in amps.
Amp Rating - or "
continuous discharge rate" (CDR), is the maximum electrical current at which the battery can be discharged continuously before the battery will fail. This specification is set by the manufacturer, and is a standard measurement in the industry. The "pulse or burst discharge rate" is not a standard measurement and varies from one manufacturer/vendor to another making comparisons from one company to another company impossible, and therefore should never be relied upon.
Capacity or mAh Rating - an approximation for how long a battery charge should last from 100% charge to when the battery will cut off. More mAh is better for longest run time.
Basic rule of thumb at the moment, to get the highest CDR amps you have to sacrifice Mah and run time, to get the highest Mah and run time you have to sacrifice amps and CDR. You won't find a battery which has
both the highest amp rating and highest mAh capacity; that's the way it works with batteries.
In general, a high end battery with 20 amps continuous will work great up to about 60 watts in a regulated mod. If you vape over 60 watts, you'll need either a 30 amp continuous battery (with only 1500mah), or a multiple battery mod.
Once you've satisfied the amp requirement, you then look among those batteries which have the most capacity, or mAh rating.
For instance, the Samsung 25R is a good 20 amp battery with 2500mAh, but the pink Samsung 30Q or brown LG HG2 have 20 amps and an additional 500 mah which should allow you to vape a little longer than the 25R will.
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