Question on calculating amps drawn on batteries

[The Ocelot]

All the current high powered mods that I have found use series (stacked) battery configuration.

The only parallel configurations I've seen are mechanical box mods.

That's why I posted again. I'm not a high watt vaper, so I don't know about those things. I just copy stuff and keep it in files for when people have questions. I don't pretend I understand it.

 

[edyle]

Good question, you are using stacked batteries, that first of all is dangerous and unadvised in anything other than a regulated device, and they still need to be high drain and high amp batteries due to the sheer amount of power being requested from them. True, the chip does all the work (and I think some of them detect when you are not using the correct batteries and simply will not work above a certain wattage until you replace them with 30 amp batteries) if you have the correct batteries, this is why I provided my list of trusted batteries for these devices first and foremost so there would be no confusion with this topic. They recommend 30 amp batteries to run these things but they know that everyone will be using their china rewrapped 20 amp continuous batteries lol, anyways, just to try this out I got some of my old ten amp batteries and tried them out and they just kind of petered out and stopped firing around I think it was 60 watts on my sig but it just stopped firing or firing sparodically due to the chip kicking in and saying "no" just like if I keep it at 91 watts on my good batts once they get down to like 40% battery they do the same thing unless I turn down the watts. So yes, the chip does all the work but if you want to be COMPLETELY safe and use the mod in its full functionality then you can only use VTC's if you want to get technical but I have used all on my list in my IPV3 all the way up to 150 (no firmware update on mine yet, new limit is 165 I think) with no issues other than decreased battery life/run time...

It stopped firing because the mod was not able to get up to the required volts because the batteries were not delivering; the mod was still trying to draw the power from the batteries and I bet those batteries got hot from the effort.

 

[invisiblehand13]

It stopped firing because the mod was not able to get up to the required volts because the batteries were not delivering; the mod was still trying to draw the power from the batteries and I bet those batteries got hot from the effort.

That was the point I was trying to convey

 

[invisiblehand13]

And no, they did not get hot

 

[invisiblehand13]

that was the point of this segment "but it just stopped firing or firing sparodically due to the chip kicking in and saying "no" just like if I keep it at 91 watts on my good batts once they get down to like 40% battery they do the same thing unless I turn down the watts" I did not think I needed to add in that it was not delivering the required amounts of volts but there it is

 

[edyle]

that was the point of this segment "but it just stopped firing or firing sparodically due to the chip kicking in and saying "no" just like if I keep it at 91 watts on my good batts once they get down to like 40% battery they do the same thing unless I turn down the watts" I did not think I needed to add in that it was not delivering the required amounts of volts but there it is

The chip does not necessarily protect you from a bad battery;

An unsafe chemistry battery might still vent in a regulated mod when the mod *tries* to draw too much power