RANT: Advice that isn't helpful. (fill your tank, grab a drink and a snack. I used every last character I could fit in a post)
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AW is not a rating. nor is it a manufacturer. though, as a product it is still similar to both in certain theories of what either stand for.
however... AW is Andrew Won. he is simply a guy who buys a lot of batteries and tests them. the ones that stand up to the specs get rebranded with his initials on them. with a true AW battery, you can be sure you are getting the best batteries out of a run.
however... AW is Andrew Won. he is simply a guy who buys a lot of batteries and tests them. the ones that stand up to the specs get rebranded with his initials on them. with a true AW battery, you can be sure you are getting the best batteries out of a run.
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What? No, you're wrong. AW is a battery vendor in China named Andrew Won. He buys large quantities of batteries from the likes of Panasonic and then puts all of them through a series of tests to grade them. (Batteries are not created equal) He and his folks separate the best from the rest. Only the best IMR batteries get the red wrap and AW sticker, while only the best ICR batteries get the black/silver wrap and AW sticker. They are then sold as the AW brand of batteries.
The buying and re-wrapping of batteries of other manufacturers is extremely common in China. Most batteries are manufactured in Japan, Korea, or China. Many of the batteries originating from China are of varying quality, mainly because some of the vendors obtain used batteries harvested from old laptop computers, wrap and sell them as new, or are the rejects of the better battery brands and re-wrapped as another brand or sold as a generic no-name battery. This is why battery experts advise to only buy recognized name-brand batteries to assure purchasing a quality battery. The counterfeit trade for batteries is very active in China, also; therefore it is important to purchase from authorized battery vendors.
UL, or Underwriters Laboratories, provides safety-related certification, validation, testing, inspection, auditing, advising and training services to a wide range of clients, including manufacturers, retailers, policymakers, regulators, service companies, and consumers.
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When I first learned about AW, I'd read it was Wang, but subsequently I've read it is Won or Wan.Ha! is it Wang? that's about the fourth last name i've seen for this guy.
What? How would the vamo or other tube decide to use 6.6 instead of 3.3 or 3.7? If the vamo did have that kind of decision programming built in, do any other tubes do that?
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Ok, so it sounds like the vamo detects stacked batteries. Thanks
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As far as I know all that are designed to stack in do that. Otherwise it would be unsafe and they wouldn't be designed to stack in.
As far as how, it's magic just like how all these little metal pieces in my computer allow me to send this to you halfway across the world.
What precisely was inaccurate/misleading about my thread title? Further, based on past experience, a general section seemed like a more apropos place to rant/vent.
The most remarkable thing is that this thread recieved more traffic than my original post in the "appropriate section" and a "good thread title". It also garnered more useful information and was infinitely more productive than posting in the far less traveled sub forum.
Kind of ironic, isn't? Do what you are supposed to do, and you get a bunch of condescending BS. Go on a rant about said BS, somewhere you just went to vent, and you get the help that you had originally asked for.
In any event, counting the days until payday... to get some aw's
Smartest thing you've posted yet.
Although I'm pretty sure you'll be getting 18350's instead of 18650's.
Smartest thing you've posted yet.
Although I'm pretty sure you'll be getting 18350's instead of 18650's.
For what he wants that is the smartest thing.
After actually doing it I can see how some people say stacking is the only way to go. I notice the performance issues with 18650s towards the low end of run time. I prefer the run time with 18650, even if I charge early at home it's a good backup for when I'm out.
But as far as voltage goes short of lugging a car battery around it seems to be the best way to me.
Smartest thing you've posted yet.
Although I'm pretty sure you'll be getting 18350's instead of 18650's.
You know, if I had posessed the correct extension tube to do so, I would have gone with 18650's. I bet those would be even better for stacking.
I wonder if it has ever been asked on this forum ... Has anyone ever tried just hooking up there Mod to a car battery?
Plenty of amps, lots of capacity and a cheap set of battery cables aren't very expensive if purchased at Auto Zone.
Plenty of amps, lots of capacity and a cheap set of battery cables aren't very expensive if purchased at Auto Zone.
I wonder if it has ever been asked on this forum ... Has anyone ever tried just hooking up there Mod to a car battery?
Plenty of amps, lots of capacity and a cheap set of battery cables aren't very expensive if purchased at Auto Zone.
Why bother with a mod? They already make ego connections that have a wire that runs to a USB that can be plugged into a cig lighter. It would be much cheaper to upgrade that (bypass circuitry, better wire, ect), than to quite likely hose up a mod.
That still limits you to USB voltage. A car battery is 12v. With a deep cycle marine battery I bet you could go all week between charges.
I did just hear of a 7v Li-Po mod on Click Bang.
I was kind of in a hurry, so I didn't seem to have remembered to put in there to have a straight connector to the lighter.
I also just thought of something. With the vamo (and any mod that uses pwm), that it is running a rippled dc, those coils have inductance. Which will add to their resistive value.
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