May you be payed in heaven ten times you did on earth.
May you be payed in heaven ten times you did on earth.
It's not a problem I just use my 2 Darwins for that mgmrick,,,,, I have nothing against this beast of a mod personally, I just know I have a few friends that have had there's go bad on the first batch and sent them back already that's all, and I like the USA mods better, I find them of a higher quality for the most part.
We can only hope!Hey, am I banned yet?
You were talking about provari.
A provari is worth nothing to me.
It can not run duals at 6 volts.
I have a varitube abs plastic that can and does run dual coils at 6 volts and cost 1/3 of provari
Newest batch in Europe now has improved fire button, and after changing batterys it is set at 3.0 volts. Also seemes to be diferent calibrated, still very strong, but not so much as before. Though I have not seen new metered results, just comments I picked up from a German forum.
You can of course run dC's on a provari. Even a 1.5dc for that matter and run it really hot at that . Whoever told you that you cant is mistaken. You wouldnt want to run a DC any hotter then you can on the provari because it will just be burning filler at that point.
Got a quick question re Battery,s I have the AW IMR 18350s in the Vmax right now ................
I have some Blue coloured 18350 IMR Batts & some Grey ICR ? 18350s are these "safe" to use in the Vmax ????
better to be safe than sorry !!!!
Cheers/hola -
I am not a battery expert, but I've heard enough to make me decide for myself that I will use IMR batteries in as many of my device as they will work in or fit in. it seems to me to be true that because of their "safer" chemistry - [IMR = manganese, ICR = cobalt] - as I understand it they will simply not/cannot violently explode or otherwise misbehave to the extent that they expose a user of them to a serious risk of bodily harm if they experience the kind of internal malfunction (internal short) or factor beyond their control (like an external short) that will cause them to start creating problematic amounts of heat due to a very rapid discharge (external short) or a positive<==>negative internal swapfest.
Put more plainly: if an IMR battery suffers a serious internal failure or gets shorted externally, it will gradually become warmer and warmer until it reaches somewhere below 500F., but will very likely allow the user of a PV to let go of the damn thing in plenty of time to avoid any injury at all, much less a grave one. ICR; probably not so much.
To me, I would rather have an "unprotected" battery like an IMR than a "protected" battery like I think most ICR's are. I also think that the advice you hear so often - "always use PROTECTED batteries" (!!!!) - is just about the worst you can give. An analogy that demonstrates the point, while being an admitted overstatement, would seem to me to be, say, choosing to wear a suicide bomb because it's "protected" against going off under normal circumstances, but could still explode if a problem develops inside any one of the sticks of dynamite, yet somehow feeling uncomforatable carrying a glass of water because it has no electronic circuitry that guards against a runaway reaction between the hydrogen and oxygen atoms.
Knowing what you're dealing with is always a good thing, so I searched the YouTube the other day for "lithium battery explosions", and watched a bunch of them. Here are two:
The first, the folks at Callie's Kustoms, shorting out an IMR battery:
Callies Kustoms IMR Battery and AW short circuit observations - YouTube
and then a demonstration of what happened to a laptop computer after its lithium ion battery pack (they did not say what the exact chemistry was, but I seriously doubt that it was lithium manganese) was deliberately shorted:
Li-Ion battery burnout - YouTube
I think these videos will very likely make you want to use the IMR's.
If anyone out there can poke some holes in my reasoning, I really do want to know if any of this is substantially incorrect, for my safety and everyone else's.
Got a quick question re Battery,s I have the AW IMR 18350s in the Vmax right now ................
I have some Blue coloured 18350 IMR Batts & some Grey ICR ? 18350s are these "safe" to use in the Vmax ????
better to be safe than sorry !!!!
Unfortunately batteries are not a one size fits all thing.
I just recently won a beautiful wood bottom feeder. In theory you can run it stacked at 6V, else use a single 18650. A no brainer for me, since I'm happy at 8 - 9W, so I use 18650 with a 1.5 ohm atty.
Then, chemistry. Protected ICR or IMR? Even fresh off the charger, 4.2V, the battery is only going to be called on to provide 4.2/1.5 = 2.8 amps. Since the PV has zero electronics protection, and sometimes atties do go short circuit, I went for protected ICR; I've got one each of 2600 and 3100 mAh, highest draw is only around 1C.
IMR can have a bad day, too. Please see: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ures-serious-battery-failure-imr-18650-a.html
So, for a boost VV I'd absolutely use IMR, but for an unregulated single battery PV my own choice is high capacity protected ICR, relying on the battery to cover the short circuit protection. My choice isn't necessarily right for anyone else, just that it was a conscious thought process.