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    I got home early this afternoon and just chilled until it cooled off enough outside to move my dining room table in, which i did all by myself. It's easy to move with 2 people but for me by myself, it was heavy. I got my fence put in today, but my brother didn't want the electric fence removed.. it now runs right through my yard, so he's gonna have to move it soon.
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    I went downstairs to walk on the treadmill earlier and saw a little water beside the sump. The pump was running but the sump was almost completely full. I went outside and no water was coming out the long drain that runs the length of the house to the back splash guard. I disconnected the line and the water came rushing out. I grabbed my drain snake and ran it through the line. I didn’t feel much resistance the whole way so not sure what had it plugged. There were some wet spots on the concrete floor in the basement and my wife freaked out. Spent an hour moving stuff and wiping up a millimeter of water in spots. I’m sure I could have just ran a fan down there and it would have dried out fine.
     

    englishmick

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    I was worrying a bit about whether I might overload my Moli 10A batteries. Found a website called RapidTables that does the calculations for you.

    Turns out with a 1ohm coil you could set the mod to 100 watts before you hit 10A draw on the battery. You do hit the limit quite fast with lower resistance coils.

    I ran the numbers through the calculator and never went over 4 amps for any of my setups, which is reassuring. That's a useful web site.
     

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    I was worrying a bit about whether I might overload my Moli 10A batteries. Found a website called RapidTables that does the calculations for you.

    Turns out with a 1ohm coil you could set the mod to 100 watts before you hit 10A draw on the battery. You do hit the limit quite fast with lower resistance coils.

    I ran the numbers through the calculator and never went over 4 amps for any of my setups, which is reassuring. That's a useful web site.
    Do you have a link? That may help explain why my batteries don't seem to last as long as other people's. I vape low resistance coils, 0.2-0.5 Ω, at 75 watts.
     

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    I have a 3.0, 6/7 wrap 26g kanthal coil in the Lemo. Comes out at 0.93 ohms. Right now I have it set at 14W. 15 or 16 are good as well, 17W is a getting a little hot for my taste.

    Most of my batteries now are Molicell 10W. Do you reckon that is OK? I thought there was an equation where you fed in ohms and watts and got the answer in amps.

    I never tried SS in power mode. I know people do that but I couldn't get my head around what would happen as the wire heated up and the resistance got higher. But since I have 100' of 26g SS wire maybe I should give it a shot.

    A SS316L coil running in power mode only increases ~1/10th of an ohm. Depending on the mod it could be (very slightly) more.

    Other than that, nothing happens, regulated mods can handle it easily. Occasionally I do run SS316L in power mode - zero issues/problems.
     

    ShowMeTwice

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    I was worrying a bit about whether I might overload my Moli 10A batteries. Found a website called RapidTables that does the calculations for you.

    Turns out with a 1ohm coil you could set the mod to 100 watts before you hit 10A draw on the battery. You do hit the limit quite fast with lower resistance coils.

    I ran the numbers through the calculator and never went over 4 amps for any of my setups, which is reassuring. That's a useful web site.

    While RapidTables is okay for very basic information on watts/volts/amps/ohms it doesn't inform us what our batteries are doing.

    Basically, it's useless for helping us to understand how our batteries function.

    A much better, vape related, website for determining your battery drain is Steam-Engine. It was created for vapers by vapers.


    Visit the page and enter the coil data for your RBA and the specific details for your battery and the battery drain tool will show you all the details you might want to know.

    Scroll to the bottom of the page for very detailed explanations for each section.

    Are you using the Molicel M35 18650 3500 mAh 10A?

    I entered the data you provided, see the attached screenshot.

    :)


    ETA: The battery drain page does not have an 18650 battery preset for a Molicel 10A. There are other 10A batteries in the list. Choose one of those.
     

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    ShowMeTwice

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    my batteries don't seem to last as long as other people's. I vape low resistance coils, 0.2-0.5 Ω, at 75 watts.

    I don't think most people vape 0.2-0.5 Ω at 75 watts.

    With that setup a single battery mod will drain a battery fairly quickly.

    A dual battery mod would offer ~double the vape time.


    ETA: 20700 or 21700 battery mods would be best for your setup vs. 18650's.
     

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