Greetings fellow vapers! I recently got into RDA builds and mech mods about 3 weeks ago, have done extensive research on battery safety, and ohms law, and how it all works. I've felt very comfortable with what I know and have learned if your going to go sub ohm, not to make your resistance put out more amps than your batteries max continuous discharge rating. The problem I've run into, is people with experience, especially where I'm living are all selling batteries at vape shops, telling you the wrong ratings for them, such as saying the lg he2 is 35 amp, when it's really 20 amp continuous.
What I want to do is go ahead and show you, as professionals with experience, the things people have said to me, and I just want your opinion on them, if they're being stupid for not following battery safety, or if it really is possible to push your batteries to that length without damaging them or yourself. Because so many people just buy the batteries the shops are putting out, and using them on 18650 mechanicals, going as low as .06 ohms, which to my understanding, the only way I'd want to do that after researching battery safety is either using 26650 mods, or dual battery box mods, most likely at 26650.
I went ahead and purchased myself 2 lg he2 batteries, and 2 sony vtc 5's on ebay.
I won't post names, but these people will be quotations of things said in some groups I'm in on facebook, and I just want to know if it's ok to do what these people are doing, or if that's a big no no!
Guy 1: LG HE2: Mines been testing out at 30 amps. I love these lg batteries. I run gnarly coils on mine with no problems. Just play it safe around .2/.4 ohms at the lowest and you should be fine. Happy vaping!
^The continous discharge is 20 amps by looking at these specs
Guy 2: I personally wouldn't get sony the imren batteries are proven better than sony pluse sony are hard to find and way marked up right now
put a post up saying what do people think about imren batteries and see what you get lol put it on this page and the old utah vape & trade
I can run my red imren batteries for about 3 hours in a hex ohm 50 watt box at .5. I love these imren batteries, I've never had them vent on me even on a .08 cloud build.
^After he posted that, I posted a stress test chart proving the sonys are better and he still didn't believe me
so then I said damn you're a brave soul, that's 52 amps.how often do you run those batteries below 0.1 ohm, if you've done it many times and they run fine, I may try it, just to see them clouds lol but I've read too much .... online about what can happen if you push above the given numbers provided, that I'm now conditioned to only build below Continuous discharge ratings.
To which he said, I haven't done it too much myself, but one of the guys that works at vape affliction runs a lot of his all day vapes that low on this battery. No issues thus far
Guy 3: This one has to do with 26650s, from what I've learned I feel like if you have a 26650 you should definitely be able to run a .17 ohm, and thought with a sony vtc 5 you could do the same seeing as its only 24 amps.
This is what he said, Just about an hour ago I went to my local vape shop. The guys are very knowledgeable helpful and have almost all of the answers. The build I was using was .17 ohms on a 26650 and the button on my mod was getting hot but the battery was just a little warm. I asked lou (the guy that runs the store) and he said, and a few others agreed, that the build was just to low for the battery and it was unsafe. If you ask my personal not super experienced opinion, I have built some pretty low ohm builds and used them on 26650s but I am careful. When I feel my mod get warm I take the battery out to cool it. Lou says I'm insane, he may be right but it's just so freaking fun lol.
Guy 4: Samsung 25r at .15 is king for me. Hits like a tank and lasts up to 8 hours constantly vaping. If it's at .15, according to the steam engine calculator that would only last
so how in the hell would that last 8 hours? It just doesn't add up to me..
Guy 5: I run my samsungs at
.13 for my adv. it's has a 20a limit and I push it past 30. Never ever gets warm. I know people that have pushed samsung 25r's to .03 and they're fine. The sag isn't worth it at all though. .08 is kind of the breaking point for me. Anything more and it's pointless in my eyes. You're not actually getting the wattage at that resistance. One pull puts it below 4.2
^To me this is crazy, from what I've learned about all of this, this just doesn't add up
Guy 6: I use efest 35 amps and mxjo which are both lg he2 rewraps. Alot of my builds are .17 or .2ish and thats pulling between 25 and 30 amps. I have built a .06 before and that was pulling 70 amps on a vtc5 and believe me the battery got warm but never vented
So that is all I have, sorry for such a long post, but for those of you willing to reply, I will greatly appreciate it.
I'm only looking for clarifcation, and am I missing something in the vaping world? I studied extensively so I would be safe and prevent bad things from happening, so we can keep vaping alive and legal.
The rates that these people are pushing these seem so crazy to me from what I've learned, I just want to know as a beginner, asking all of you legendary experienced vapers, if these people are doing it wrong, or they'll be ok, because I"m missing something? Lol anyways thanks for reading!
What I want to do is go ahead and show you, as professionals with experience, the things people have said to me, and I just want your opinion on them, if they're being stupid for not following battery safety, or if it really is possible to push your batteries to that length without damaging them or yourself. Because so many people just buy the batteries the shops are putting out, and using them on 18650 mechanicals, going as low as .06 ohms, which to my understanding, the only way I'd want to do that after researching battery safety is either using 26650 mods, or dual battery box mods, most likely at 26650.
I went ahead and purchased myself 2 lg he2 batteries, and 2 sony vtc 5's on ebay.
I won't post names, but these people will be quotations of things said in some groups I'm in on facebook, and I just want to know if it's ok to do what these people are doing, or if that's a big no no!
Guy 1: LG HE2: Mines been testing out at 30 amps. I love these lg batteries. I run gnarly coils on mine with no problems. Just play it safe around .2/.4 ohms at the lowest and you should be fine. Happy vaping!
^The continous discharge is 20 amps by looking at these specs

Guy 2: I personally wouldn't get sony the imren batteries are proven better than sony pluse sony are hard to find and way marked up right now
put a post up saying what do people think about imren batteries and see what you get lol put it on this page and the old utah vape & trade
I can run my red imren batteries for about 3 hours in a hex ohm 50 watt box at .5. I love these imren batteries, I've never had them vent on me even on a .08 cloud build.
^After he posted that, I posted a stress test chart proving the sonys are better and he still didn't believe me

so then I said damn you're a brave soul, that's 52 amps.how often do you run those batteries below 0.1 ohm, if you've done it many times and they run fine, I may try it, just to see them clouds lol but I've read too much .... online about what can happen if you push above the given numbers provided, that I'm now conditioned to only build below Continuous discharge ratings.
To which he said, I haven't done it too much myself, but one of the guys that works at vape affliction runs a lot of his all day vapes that low on this battery. No issues thus far
Guy 3: This one has to do with 26650s, from what I've learned I feel like if you have a 26650 you should definitely be able to run a .17 ohm, and thought with a sony vtc 5 you could do the same seeing as its only 24 amps.
This is what he said, Just about an hour ago I went to my local vape shop. The guys are very knowledgeable helpful and have almost all of the answers. The build I was using was .17 ohms on a 26650 and the button on my mod was getting hot but the battery was just a little warm. I asked lou (the guy that runs the store) and he said, and a few others agreed, that the build was just to low for the battery and it was unsafe. If you ask my personal not super experienced opinion, I have built some pretty low ohm builds and used them on 26650s but I am careful. When I feel my mod get warm I take the battery out to cool it. Lou says I'm insane, he may be right but it's just so freaking fun lol.
Guy 4: Samsung 25r at .15 is king for me. Hits like a tank and lasts up to 8 hours constantly vaping. If it's at .15, according to the steam engine calculator that would only last
Estimated total runtime | 6 | min |
Estimated # puffs @ 5 sec puffs | 73 |
Guy 5: I run my samsungs at
.13 for my adv. it's has a 20a limit and I push it past 30. Never ever gets warm. I know people that have pushed samsung 25r's to .03 and they're fine. The sag isn't worth it at all though. .08 is kind of the breaking point for me. Anything more and it's pointless in my eyes. You're not actually getting the wattage at that resistance. One pull puts it below 4.2
^To me this is crazy, from what I've learned about all of this, this just doesn't add up
Guy 6: I use efest 35 amps and mxjo which are both lg he2 rewraps. Alot of my builds are .17 or .2ish and thats pulling between 25 and 30 amps. I have built a .06 before and that was pulling 70 amps on a vtc5 and believe me the battery got warm but never vented
So that is all I have, sorry for such a long post, but for those of you willing to reply, I will greatly appreciate it.
I'm only looking for clarifcation, and am I missing something in the vaping world? I studied extensively so I would be safe and prevent bad things from happening, so we can keep vaping alive and legal.
The rates that these people are pushing these seem so crazy to me from what I've learned, I just want to know as a beginner, asking all of you legendary experienced vapers, if these people are doing it wrong, or they'll be ok, because I"m missing something? Lol anyways thanks for reading!