No battery vaping: The final solution

[edyle]

As edyle said this is good stuff because:

Saves batteries for use when on the move

Way more consistent vape

Easy to build (most of us have old ego/510 dead batteries laying around if you have been for vaping for anything longer than 3 months

Besides all that, some people just like to build things

Get your build on edyle

What kind of power do you have running through it while plugged in? volts/amps etc. Seems to me the most difficult part to find in large/reasonable price supply would be the EGO tp/510 connector. Then again I'm sure there is some Chinese manufacturer that has a billion of them waiting to be ordered.

1: What kind of power running through while plugged in:
Well my local Radio Shack sell Universal ac/dc adapters which have a switch where you can adjust voltage to a choice of:
3, 4.5, 6, 7.5, 9 or 12 volts.

So I set them to 7.5 which will work on mods designed for 2x18350 batteries.
I have 3 of those ac/dc adapters; the biggest one is a 40 watt one.
My mods are 15 watt mods.
If I lose my electronics I could always plug in on my mech and set the ac/dc adapter to 3 or 4.5 volts.

2: eGo/510 connector:
That's the BEAUTY of this FINAL SOLUTION!!!! I'm NOT interfering with modding an eGo/510 connector!! I'm just using existing mod tubes!! All I am modding is really the 18650 (or 18350) battery itself, and shoving that thing up the mod tube!
So I am using existing mods, and just plugging metal up inside the mod instead of the battery; the mod doesn't know (or care) that it's not a battery inside; all the mod wants is a suitable voltage.
And if something is wrong with the mod I can just take it off, and use another mod!

 

[edyle]

Here's my zmax powered off the adapter;
The 4 inch 1/4in bolt is soldered to the positive from the power supply, and the negative from the power supply is connected via alligator clip to the tube body; real simple. To leave out the soldering you could just use two nuts instead, and the positive lead you just wrap between the two nuts and tighten, but I figure the solder makes a better connection to the bolt instead of relying on the nuts having good electrical contact to the threads.

The bolt itself is held in the midline of the tube by 3/4in rubber washers - regular rubber washers for plumbing that are used in faucets/taps/pipes.

That's Universal. I can shove that bolt up any mod and connect the alligator clip to the body of any mod. All the 18650 mods have the same diameter size on the inside to match the 18mm diameter of 18650 batteries; this crude and easy to jiffy up in a hurry thingy will work on any mod;

 

[TonyD64]

Innovation at it's finest. Nice.

 

[BlueridgeDog]

Impressive indeed. That said, my solution to the issue is just to have a small collection of mods. I have four and have built USB chargers into them all.

 

[Derrick Wang]

I'm a complete noob with electrical work but would def like to see a step by step on pushing a/c outlet power to a mech. I go through 2 sony's a day vaping at .1ohm

 

[WharfRat1976]

Super cool thread- Love it!