Sigelei won't go Past 11w! Help!

[shoutcast]

I got my new Nautilus mini. I usually vape at 4 volts On my Sigelei V5. Anyway i was reading and read that the BVC coils vape better at higher volts or wattage. I read vaping at lower voltage while will work but will gunk up the coil. Anyway I switched over my device to watts for the first time ever and set it to 13 watts. But when I fire it says it is only pushing 11.1 watts. So I went back to voltage and set it at 5volts and and I fire it says only 4.8 volts.. Ok switch out the battery.. yup same problem. I have 5 batteries total and they all have the same problem.. they won't go above either 4.8 volts or 11.1 watts. I use AW IMR batteries and charger that stops charging when complete. So whats going on here is my V5 broken or are my batteries going bad..

 

[DavidOck]

You don't say what the coil resistance is, and that's a critical piece of info.

Might be that it's too low, and the current limit of your device is cutting in. Regardless of the total range of a mod, in volts or watts, there is also a max current the device is capable of. Amps, the current, = volts/ohms, so after checking the coil resistance, you can plug in the numbers and see if the max current limit is being exceeded. If that's the case, it's working as designed, and you'll need to go to a higher value coil to get the full range.

 

[Rickajho]

Do you mean the Zmax V5?

As DavidOck said, not knowing the resistance we can only speculate. My speculation is the coil resistance is 1.5 ohms or less, probably closer to 1.25 ohms, which is maxxing out your Zmax's 15 watt limit. It's dumbing down your setting to protect itself.