The ShockWave by Super-T Preorder Thread

[silverrocks]

From the inside looking out Silverrocks, seeing the stress and anxiety this has caused you, maybe just consider selling your Shockwave and move on. It will really reduce your stress and disappointment. It's just a mod, nothing worth causing yourself all this grief over. Maybe consider an ELA in the future when they become available, no number worries on those

David, I can see where you are coming from. However, when I had to sell a mod to pay bills I didn't cancel the Shockwave but sold my favorite mod ever. If I sell the Shockwave, selling the Caravela would have been for nothing.

 

[Riverboat]

Shockwave Family.........you one of us Silverrocks;-)

 

[Riverboat]

Not very impressed with the blue battery .. was getting 3.96 underload with 1.4-1.5 ohm HH357 when battery was at 4.20 , and now at 4.12 i am getting 3.84v underload. My last hope lies with the canadian Molicel 26700 40A li-mn high drain ( about 2850mAh capacity), and if that one fails too, i'll just use it with the kick. I'm a 10-11W kinda vaper, and start to moan & complain at around 9W.

Thats a big drop under load for such a large battery IMO....
I am using some 5 month old AW 18650 IMR 2000 mah batteries in a Provari...
Off the charger they read 4.20 volts..... under load using an HH357 3.0 ohm atty they read at 4.10 volts....
Even when the battery is discharged under 3.7 volts, its never more than a 0.2 differance bettwen no load/load....and these are old batteries that have been used daily....One thing I belive is that the PILA charger I use makes the batteries last longer( charge cycles)...

 

[TopCookie]

lolol...

 

[snork]

Thats a big drop under load for such a large battery IMO....
I am using some 5 month old AW 18650 IMR 2000 mah batteries in a Provari...
Off the charger they read 4.20 volts..... under load using an HH357 3.0 ohm atty they read at 4.10 volts....
Even when the battery is discharged under 3.7 volts, its never more than a 0.2 differance bettwen no load/load....and these are old batteries that have been used daily....One thing I belive is that the PILA charger I use makes the batteries last longer( charge cycles)...

I finished shooting my video, It'll be some time while I edit, process it, upload it, etc. But at any rate the video meanders off into voltage land and illustrates David's comment about the multitude of variables involved.

 

[matrixxu]

The drop is quite big, but it's the battery, not the mod. Siouxie metered a drop of 0.17v underload with an MNKE. My initial drop was 0,24v.
Right now, using the same atty ( i haven't vaped exclusively on it, i use 2-3 mods for different juices ) , the battery is at 4.05v and the underload voltage is at 3.71v. The 26500s+kick are getting more and more tempting to use lol, but i'm more curious about the numbers than vape quality atm, as i never had a 26650 mod before.

Took battery out, wiped contact, put it back in and got 4,04 -> 3.87v underload. Apparently i'm getting same drop as siouxie, the trick was to get the on/off into it's full open position and now it makes perfect contact.

 

[Sense Field]

Thats a big drop under load for such a large battery IMO....
I am using some 5 month old AW 18650 IMR 2000 mah batteries in a Provari...
Off the charger they read 4.20 volts..... under load using an HH357 3.0 ohm atty they read at 4.10 volts....
Even when the battery is discharged under 3.7 volts, its never more than a 0.2 differance bettwen no load/load....and these are old batteries that have been used daily....One thing I belive is that the PILA charger I use makes the batteries last longer( charge cycles)...

Provari regulates. You have it set to 4.1v so it gives you 4.1. This is a mechanical mod...it's a totally different beast.

If I'm not mistaken...the voltage drop is greater the lower the resistance of the atty (on mechanical mods). The readings he is getting seem normal for a 1.5ohm on a mechanical mod. You can't compare voltage drop readings with others because they are using different batteries and different atties. The atty being a major factor from my understanding.

Of course this is just from what I have been told about how voltage drop works...could be incorrect...I decided a long time ago that I wasn't going to put my meter on mechanical mods anymore.

 

[Katz123]

There is a 26700 IMR Molycell made right here in Canada. JR Custom Turning sells it as well. They have been tested and shown to outperform all others with a reported 40 amp limit. This is a link to the Data Sheet.

http://wamtechnik.pl/files/specs/644.pdf

Is that the blue IMR 26500 we sell or is there another brand out there?

 

[Riverboat]

Provari regulates. You have it set to 4.1v so it gives you 4.1. This is a mechanical mod...it's a totally different beast. .

No thats not correct...
The Provari allows you to check your battery's remaining power... you click the button 11 times until the screen says Cb(check battery) it will give you the remaining voltage of your battery(not the voltage that mod is set at)... now screw on an atty, go back into Cb mode and it fires the atty(while checking the battery) showing the battery voltage under load, it will be lower.. Thats how you know how much the resistance lowers the battery voltage on a VV mod..
Now if you place an inline battery meter on a Proavri and just fire it, you will get a reading of whatever the Proavris voltage is set at...lets say 5.0 volts..
Now screw an atty on top of the inline voltage meter and fire the Provari.... then you will get the same reading...5.0 volts... Voltage regulation only comes into play when you are actually firing the mod to vape.... not in Cb mode....

 

[snork]

Okay, here you go.
The ShockWave By Super-T Manufacturing - YouTube
It's the worst video I've made in my tiny production output. A half hour of me, without very much ShockWave. The camera zoom and lack of ShockWave screen time make it the snork show and that's about it. Enjoy it if you have time to waste.

Couple notes. About halfway in I tried a TrustFire 26650 in it for the first time. It failed. Subsequently I determined that it must have been that one battery, three other TrustFires were fine. Second, when I tried that battery, you can see me cranking the switch really tight in a attempt to make a connection. Please don't do that. Later in the day I had some serious angst when my lock switch seized up. I believe my he-man crank job may have later manifested itself in a seizure. With David's calm guidance I got it loose and all is well.

 

[Riverboat]

Okay, here you go.
The ShockWave By Super-T Manufacturing - YouTube
It's the worst video I've made in my tiny production output. A half hour of me, without very much ShockWave. The camera zoom and lack of ShockWave screen time make it the snork show and that's about it. Enjoy it if you have time to waste.

Couple notes. About halfway in I tried a TrustFire 26650 in it for the first time. It failed. Subsequently I determined that it must have been that one battery, three other TrustFires were fine. Second, when I tried that battery, you can see me cranking the switch really tight in a attempt to make a connection. Please don't do that. Later in the day I had some serious angst when my lock switch seized up. I believe my he-man crank job may have later manifested itself in a seizure. With David's calm guidance I got it loose and all is well.

Im about to watch it.............thanks Snork i

 

[Riverboat]

Wow I just started the video, Its a full featured film............34.18 minutes....

Edit:
Looking good Snork, love the hat........Im a dripper like you, but one thing I do different is that when I drip I always remove the drip tip to do it... Everytime I tried to drip thru the drip tip hole some juice would remain in the tip causing me to suck juice on the first hit....


Where did you get that fancy inline multitask voltage reader...? I have a nice one, hand built by Shan but all it does is read the voltage...

 

[snork]

Wow I just started the video, its a full featured film............34.18 minutes....

No kidding. I wouldn't shut up.
I'll leave it up until Sunday afternoon, then it's history. The audio sync is so far off it's unwatchable. Sometime at a later date I'll make a different one.

 

[VapRon]

Ha, I just sat through the complete movie.
I liked it snork.
Was a bit off with the sync but you know that already.
Since I watched it on the iPad I just put it on the bad connection

 

[snork]

The audio sync nastiness is YouTube's doing. I had some music at the closing, YouTube flagged it as a copyright violation. It gave me the option to auto-remove it and when I let it, the audio went wonko.

 

[VapRon]

Well it was not real bad. Reminded me of those early kung fu movies

 

[snork]

Wow I just started the video, Its a full featured film............34.18 minutes....

Edit:
Looking good Snork, love the hat........Im a dripper like you, but one thing I do different is that when I drip I always remove the drip tip to do it... Everytime I tried to drip thru the drip tip hole some juice would remain in the tip causing me to suck juice on the first hit....


Where did you get that fancy inline multitask voltage reader...? I have a nice one, hand built by Shan but all it does is read the voltage...

The ecdmeter is yet another one of those things in vaping that you just kind of luck into. Sense Field got an early one and it intrigued me. Somehow I caught wind of a co-op for them and I got in on it. No idea when more will be made. VapeBrain

 

[silverrocks]

Hanks Snork, I really appreciated your video, very relaxing. Danke

 

[Nicblazer]

Awesome video, Mr. Snork. The 100 smiles given by you on that clip serves as proof that you guys (gals) wait was not in vain. I'm extremely happy for you, and all the other nice peeps from ECF that got their SWs.


Thanks for the time investment and props on the clip, Snork.



Nic

 

[Nicblazer]

Hanks Snork, I really appreciated your video, very relaxing. Danke

Lol. I thought that too, silver. I didn't even notice that it was over 30 minutes till it was done