Sigelei 150W questions

[jwleonhart]

So I picked up a Sigelei 150 watt. First off I must say its awesome. The buttons compared to the ipv are just so much better...

For me personally the battery indicator has been pretty good. It will go all the way down to 0% before it no longer fired and says low battery. This is on 2 Samsung 25r batteries.

I have some questions though. First is regarding the battery indicator... Why is it that compared to the other manufacturers only Sigelei has been smart enough to list actual battery percentage instead of just a silly icon... It really helps you to know how much battery life you have left.

Secondly, the magnetic door is just great. Why does ipv still use screws? Obviously most of the people I know have glued magnetics in to replace the silly screws because that makes charging the batteries difficult.

Why can't you onboard charge these batteries? I dont seem to understand that? I would assume it is possible it there is some kind of issue where they don't want you to for safety or something..

Lastly, if you take one battery out, hold the fire button, and continue holding it while you put the one battery back in it will show up with a version number of the yihi sx330 chip that is in the device.

For example mine is v8.05, but my friends is version 7.41. Is there somewhere I could find out what differences there are between the versions?

Thanks for a y help, and any other interesting information related to the mod.

Lastly, has anyone noticed that the batteries seem to last longer on this mod than on others? It must be incredibly efficient in terms of using battery because it will last a couple days running 30-40 watts easy even on heavy vaping.

Thanks!

 

[BOX MOD LYFE]

Well for the onboard charging to work, they would also need to add a balancer to the charging so it would be safe.

 

[jwleonhart]

And I'd assume the balancer would add more to the price bla bla bla and they dont want to do that

 

[jwleonhart]

Nobody has any idea about the rest of it?

 

[CoinLaundry]

They have a website with very minimal data. There's not a "changelog" or "what's new in version X" to be found (?).

News - YiHi SX330 V3 S 150W

 

[jwleonhart]

Yea I looked on yihi website. You think someone would list something regarding the revisions.

 

[Mashbot]

I agree about the long battery life, I think it is because it isn't constantly checking resistance. With my last mod, it would always check resistance and update the display. With the Sig 150 it only updates after the fire button is pushed. It also doesn't light up the display excessively, so that saves some power as well.

 

[jwleonhart]

I never owned a sigelei 100 watt so I wouldn't know... But I'd assume they learned from their mistakes with the 100 plus and the 150.

Any idea why sigelei is the only company who was smart enough to display the battery in percentage instead of just a silly icon which gives you no idea of how much battery you truly have left?

 

[classwife]

Moved to Variable Voltage APV Discussion from APV Discussion

 

[sedition]

OP, thanks for the tip about the version number - just checked and mine's 7.4. Is there any way to update it?

Regarding battery life, mine only goes down to around 30-35% before running out of gas, now I'm wondering if that's something to do with versions.

All said and done, I love mine. Haven't run into any real problems yet - niggles like the wattage scrolling too quickly and the battery life thing I mentioned, but it's still a bloody good mod.

 

[jwleonhart]

Yea I've seen people saying there battery will reach like 20% and stop firing... Anyone else having that problem? My battery indicator is somewhat accurate, and when it hits 0% is when it will say check battery.

Anyone else with a version number lower than mine have the battery indicator issue?

Other than that I haven't noticed anything weird. Works good so far.

 

[jwleonhart]

Bumping it up.

 

[Waddle]

I can run my 100w down to almost zero with no noticeable effect. When I pull the batteries they measure out at about 3.3v.

 

[jwleonhart]

Weird my batteries at zero on my luc v2 charger measure 3.1

What is the firmware version of your sigelei?

 

[Joey Frazier]

Yea I've seen people saying there battery will reach like 20% and stop firing... Anyone else having that problem? My battery indicator is somewhat accurate, and when it hits 0% is when it will say check battery.

Anyone else with a version number lower than mine have the battery indicator issue?

Other than that I haven't noticed anything weird. Works good so far.

When i first got my 150 i noticed it would only fire for about 1-2 seconds anywhere under 40% battery but now that i have been using it for almost a month it will go down to about 12% before it starts, almost like the chip is learning the batteries limits.

 

[McFeely]

i think i depends on your ohms and what wattage you're running it at if i'm running a 1.4ohm coil i can go down to almost 0 but if i have a .2ohm at 60watts then it stops firing around 30% and i need to change batteries. Also onboard charging always causes issues it seems, better to get a dedicated charger and a few extra batteries.

 

[Joey Frazier]

.2 ohm herakles/ sigelei 150/ LG HE4's fired down to 6% battery left before it started the 1 second hits
Seems to be getting lower and lower

 

[toucandan229]

From what I understand the updated chip increases battery life on your 150. I only have one Sigelei so I can't personally verify this, nor can I find anyone who can at the moment, but that is the rumor I have heard.