Reo Battery
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Flat/button top batts with be a topic of rhe past once the P67 hits! No prob with either just like the woodvils.
I know the OP already went with AW 1600s, which is a good battery, but to clear one thing up if I may: the notion that flat tops require more maintenance than button tops in grands is not true. I follow the same easy and basic maintenance routine for all my batteries. The only difference is the use of the door magnet on the top. (if you do not use the magnet, perhaps more maintenance would be required, due to the notorious arcing and pitting - but, not with the magnet)
I think the idea of using magnets on flat tops in the Grands is a good one. Next time I place an order with Rob, I'm going to get a few. Currently, my AWs are relegated to use in my Grands. The LGs are used in the Woodvils only.
Works great. I was a little skeptical at first of the use of the magnet but I've been running LGs exclusively across the board for a few weeks now. Rob mentioned the possibility of the magnet slipping and shorting, but as long as it is centered I don't see an issue. (I had it slip a few times when I had too much deoxit underneath the magnet, so it was slippery - no shorting, and it was immediately noticeable, and I just moved it back center)
I don't use my Grands a lot anyway. Usually just when I'm playing golf, or riding around doing errands. I use my Woodvils 95% of the time. But it would be nice to just stick with one battery, which currently is the LG.
Same, I only use the Grands when I'm out and about. My Woodvil gets most my use when at home (note that for me, work is at home...so that's a lot of Woody action)
Fortunately i ordered some magnets with the reo anyway.
So perhaps i'll check some of my lgs out in the reo when iam in the mood
So perhaps i'll check some of my lgs out in the reo when iam in the mood
I use both Sony vtc5's and aw 2200's and have a few 1600's as well. I prefer my Sony batteries over the AW's and I'm not worried about arcing. I nolox all my batteries and contacts frequently. I was always told Sony vtc4 and vtc5 batteries were 30 amp batteries and not 20 amp, what happened here? My vtc5 2600 say they are 30 amp rated. They are authentic Sony batteries also.
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Sony VTC4 & VTC5 are both 20A CDR. The difference between the 2 is, the VTC5 is 2600mAh. The VTC4 is 2100mAh.
Check out Mooch's blogs for some great testing results on these batteries. He rates them @ 20amps for safety & preventing cell damage/life loss. His results on the VTC's will go into what happens above 20amps.
List of Battery Tests | E-Cigarette Forum
Im just curious about the vtc4/5 cells, they've always been known to be 30A batteries. So are we sure the ones he tested were authentic Sony vtc cells or could they of been fakes? Mine are authentic all the way, my buddy found out all his were fakes that were probably rewrapped efest cells. He got rid of them soon after.
I've built pretty gnarly coils when I first started vaping, double parallels and stove top coils. Both of which ohm'd at .16 ohms. I used my Sony batteries (vtc5's) and luckily never had any issues. With coils like that, your pushing over 100 watts on a fresh battery and just over 26 amps. Not much headroom, but my hot spring never pancaked and my battery never vented. I trusted that those 30A rated batteries would hold up and they did every time. I built coils like that plenty of times my first couple months into vaping. Now a days it's not like that anymore and don't need to worry about exceeding amp limits. My sweet spot is .4 ohms, any lower and it's pointless, burnt juice, dry hits, rewick every two days, low battery life, run through 6 ml's like its nothing. I remember when I built my first stove top coils, mounted them in my rm5 vertically because they didn't fit any other way. My wick was basically wrapped around and tucked behind the coil, there's no easy way to wick up a stove top. Vaped off that .16 ohm coils for three days before I decided I couldn't take it anymore. Flavor was amazing, heat off those things were ridiculous. Top cap to my rm5 got so hot from those coils, all the black paint on the afc ring chipped off. Batteries would only last about 2 to 3 hours and those coils drank juice. I'm talking about pulling dry hits every third hit and having to resquonk. Yeah, I don't do that anymore. I'm just glad that those batteries stood up the whole time and nothing happened. I still have and use those batteries, they look old as dirt but still perform.
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I've built pretty gnarly coils when I first started vaping, double parallels and stove top coils. Both of which ohm'd at .16 ohms. I used my Sony batteries (vtc5's) and luckily never had any issues. With coils like that, your pushing over 100 watts on a fresh battery and just over 26 amps. Not much headroom, but my hot spring never pancaked and my battery never vented. I trusted that those 30A rated batteries would hold up and they did every time. I built coils like that plenty of times my first couple months into vaping. Now a days it's not like that anymore and don't need to worry about exceeding amp limits. My sweet spot is .4 ohms, any lower and it's pointless, burnt juice, dry hits, rewick every two days, low battery life, run through 6 ml's like its nothing. I remember when I built my first stove top coils, mounted them in my rm5 vertically because they didn't fit any other way. My wick was basically wrapped around and tucked behind the coil, there's no easy way to wick up a stove top. Vaped off that .16 ohm coils for three days before I decided I couldn't take it anymore. Flavor was amazing, heat off those things were ridiculous. Top cap to my rm5 got so hot from those coils, all the black paint on the afc ring chipped off. Batteries would only last about 2 to 3 hours and those coils drank juice. I'm talking about pulling dry hits every third hit and having to resquonk. Yeah, I don't do that anymore. I'm just glad that those batteries stood up the whole time and nothing happened. I still have and use those batteries, they look old as dirt but still perform.
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I remember those stove tops, Jet (or should I say Rocket) - wicked things, indeed. Glad you've found peace somewhere that's a little less extreme for your gear.
Lol, never again Papa...never again. Yeah, you definitely get a little smarter the longer you vape. Common sense kicks in and your like hmm...I probably shouldn't do this, yup...not gonna happen!
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I appreciate the research on his part testing batteries, I just hope the younger generation uses ohms law and a little common sense so things like what happened recently don't repeat in the future. Apparently some young kid vaping had serious burns to his face and neck from vaping when a battery decided to vent and if I remember correctly this was in Florida not to long ago. My family whom doesn't vape warned me of the incident. I told them not to worry, I don't put my wife or myself in harms way anymore when it comes to building coils and battery safety. I feel sorry when I enter local vape shops and there's some young kid behind the counter vaping off a 200 watt box mod and they think it's all hunky dory. Yet the box mod doesn't have any sort of fail safe protection and they have it turnt all the way up cause they think blowing huge clouds is cool. I'm just like wow, are you really that stupid? Then they see me with my handy dandy RGLP and wonder why it's so great. I show them the simplicity of it, how it works, the safety spring, and demonstrate the vapor production I get coming from a .4 ohm twisted 26g single coil out of my cyclone with afc cap. They usually can't believe how good it is until I let them try it for themselves. I'll pull off my drip tip and hand them the mod. They always say how amazing the flavor is, and are quite surprised at the amount of vapor from the little cyclone that could.
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