Ultrafire 3.6V 880mAh LC 16340 Protected CR123A Battery

[tparganos]

Does anyone how this would work in the Protegy v1?
They do fit but they are tight. These are 3.6v as opposed to the 3.0 Tenergy and instead of 750mah they are 880mah and they are also protected. So I guess these should last longer per each charge.

 

[CaSHMeRe]

TP ... You'll be pushing roughly 6v on a resistored switch if you use them. On a non resistored switch, you are looking at a loaded voltage of probably 6.5v ....

be very careful

 

[tparganos]

TP ... You'll be pushing roughly 6v on a resistored switch if you use them. On a non resistored switch, you are looking at a loaded voltage of probably 6.5v ....

be very careful

I just tried it and it makes everything taste pretty bad. on the 510 the worst. I think it blew 2 of my 901 atomizers. Is that what you meant by be careful?

 

[CaSHMeRe]

I just tried it and it makes everything taste pretty bad. on the 510 the worst. I think it blew 2 of my 901 atomizers. Is that what you meant by be careful?

haha ... No ...

I would have probably only sacrificed 1 atomizer myself. If you aren't used to 6v, or if you are using 6v with a 901/510 .... its really not the greatest vape in the world. The only atomizer I can truly *love* at 6 volts is the 801. Otherwise, everything else tastes bad and things burn up too quickly.

 

[tparganos]

haha ... No ...

I would have probably only sacrificed 1 atomizer myself. If you aren't used to 6v, or if you are using 6v with a 901/510 .... its really not the greatest vape in the world. The only atomizer I can truly *love* at 6 volts is the 801. Otherwise, everything else tastes bad and things burn up too quickly.

I just got the 801 and this thing works great on the prodigy. I don't like the 510 as much on the prodigy but it sure works great with the protege. When are you getting the switches without resistor because I would prefer to use the prodigy at 3.7 volts for the 510's?

 

[Scottes]

These are 3.6v as opposed to the 3.0 Tenergy and instead of 750mah they are 880mah and they are also protected.

This doesn't make sense to me. 3.6v and 880mah versus 3v and 750mah. Yet they're the same size. An increase in voltage should lower the mah. Anyone know for sure?

I believe Tenergy's mah rating much more than Ultrafire or those no-name blue ones.

 

[vapn]

The 750s are a LiFepo battery. LiIon but better. New formula in the battery. They don't have a circuit board for protection but they do have chemical protection built in. Those 750 rcr123s are really good batteries. Standard with the Prodigy for a reason....

The 880s are 3.7 and work good if used singly. I had them in the Screwdriver. They are the same size but not good to use in the Prodigy in doubles because that would be 7.4v output before load. Somewhere around 6.5v under load per Steve and the atty is not really rated for anything over 6v. They WILL blow for sure real fast...

I was able to use the 16340 in the Prodigy but only after they had drained a little. And only the 801 was able to use that kind of voltage without burning the juice real fast. The 901 was awful tasting. And the 510 was just nasty at 6.5v. That was a big mistake I made as a test. I charged that set of 16340s and blew that atty just as soon as I hit the button.. I actually heard it pop... Juice came flying out of the end... Tailpiping it.. never again did those batteries go into the Prodigy... lol....

 

[a2dcovert]

I wish that they would produce some 3.7 volt 14500 LiFePO4 batteries. I've been very impressed with the rcr123a LiFePO4 batteries for the Prodigy. Before I received my Prodigy I bought some Tenergy Li-Ion 900 mAh batteries. I was sure they would perform better than the 750 mAh LiFePO4 batteries. Not the case at all, the 900 mAh Li-Ion batteries produce voltage longer but the performance seems to drop lower sooner than the LiFePO4. I have yet to run the Li-Ion batteries down to the cut-off voltage. They simply produce less vapor than the LiFePO4's even when the LiFePO4's are near 2.5 volts. I pull the Li-Ions out and measure the voltage at 3.2 yet the vapor production is too low for me. This seems to me to prove the LiFePO4s have a higher C rating.

Kevin

 

[vapn]

From everything I have read the LiFePO4 battery is far superior to the regular Li ions ...

Now I did start to have some problems with a set of those. If they get out of sync with each other for some reason they can really mess up... Always keep them in pairs. If one of them has just a hair more voltage than the other it really messes them up. One has to work real hard to keep up and they drain real fast. There is a thread about this in the Technical issues forum... There are several people that noticed this change in them. What happened to mine was simple... I had some of the 18650s come in and I started using them for a while... When I went back to the Rcrs I got them out of their original pairing... Well they really went bad fast. I would only get about 20 minutes out of them and the vapor would drop real fast. I would take readings on them and they would be way different. I know they were just charged too.. After that happened I had 4 batteries that didn't perform well at all... I had to trash those... Now I number them and keep them in sets... If you read on the battery specs it tells you to never use them in pairs if the charge is different.

 

[a2dcovert]

I've been monitoring them and trying to match them. I have 2 pair that are really close, within a .02 volt. Another 2 are .20 volt different. I'm going to see if they stay close from cycle to cycle.

Kevin

 

[bearscreek]

What voltage should a Tenergy 750 mAh RCR123A 3.0 V battery show just off the charger? I know it might seem like a dumb question, and sorry if I already read that yesterday and forgot.

 

[a2dcovert]

Not a dumb question at all. A new one will be about 3.7 volts. I have 4 that are about a month old and they will charge up to about 3.5 volts.

Kevin

 

[bearscreek]

Cool. I was just wondering because I have 6 that all show up at probably closer to 3.8 than anything. (most definitely 3.7+) I had been thinking about getting the unresistored Prodigy switch when available, and even though I wouldn't use it much at the max voltage, I know I'd try it once and probably pop the 510 atty, if you know what I mean. Thanks for the info.