Weak Firing with Regulated Device: Batteries, Build or Box?

[extwofour]

Hey yo, I've got a question for you guys.

I've got a new regulated 50W box, and I've adored it. OKR chip, clean and efficient build quality.

I've been building on this thing for fun to see what it can do, and everything seems to work great. The trouble comes in here (but applies to every other atty I throw on it since this): I built a 26ga dual vert @ approx. .5. Vaped WONDERFULLY for a few hours, batteries died down and I swapped. It still vapes DECENTLY, but not nearly with the amount of punch it was giving me at the start. I've put other attys that vaped just as well on it, and they're weaker as well.

So I went through my troubleshooting steps:

Checked build itself, everything was as it should be. Dry burned coils to get any gunk off that could have built up early on, rewicked, and made sure posts were tightened.
Checked connections. 510 on atty and box were clean, wiped them off anyway to be sure. Battery connections within the box were clean and making perfect connection. Wiped them too.
Recharged original batteries, placed them and same issue. Voltage readout on charger from batteries was as it should be.
Potentiometer was fine, solid as ever.
All internal wiring was connected and undamaged.

So, I'm left wondering, what exactly is up? I'm not knowledgeable enough to know exactly how the batteries are held up internally, nor am I knowledgeable of the internals of a box mod to see anything other than what could be obvious on the surface.

Specs, as follows:
OKR t/10 50W
Imren 18650 38A in SERIES (I always swap batteries after charge appropriately).

NOTE: I apologize if this is in any way posted in the wrong forum. Please, let me know and move it if necessary!

 

[Izan]

Hey yo, I've got a question for you guys.

I've got a new regulated 50W box, and I've adored it. OKR chip, clean and efficient build quality.

I've been building on this thing for fun to see what it can do, and everything seems to work great. The trouble comes in here (but applies to every other atty I throw on it since this): I built a 26ga dual vert @ approx. .5. Vaped WONDERFULLY for a few hours, batteries died down and I swapped. It still vapes DECENTLY, but not nearly with the amount of punch it was giving me at the start. I've put other attys that vaped just as well on it, and they're weaker as well.

So I went through my troubleshooting steps:

Checked build itself, everything was as it should be. Dry burned coils to get any gunk off that could have built up early on, rewicked, and made sure posts were tightened.
Checked connections. 510 on atty and box were clean, wiped them off anyway to be sure. Battery connections within the box were clean and making perfect connection. Wiped them too.
Recharged original batteries, placed them and same issue. Voltage readout on charger from batteries was as it should be.
Potentiometer was fine, solid as ever.
All internal wiring was connected and undamaged.

So, I'm left wondering, what exactly is up? I'm not knowledgeable enough to know exactly how the batteries are held up internally, nor am I knowledgeable of the internals of a box mod to see anything other than what could be obvious on the surface.

Specs, as follows:
OKR t/10 50W
Imren 18650 38A in SERIES (I always swap batteries after charge appropriately).

NOTE: I apologize if this is in any way posted in the wrong forum. Please, let me know and move it if necessary!

Howdy and welcome,
What are you using to test voltage, resistance and continuity? Does it show that the box is putting out what it "claims" watts/volts wise?

good luck
I

 

[extwofour]

I ran my box with a simple volt meter screwed in and got a full 5.5+V.

I did, however, drop by a local shop to pick up some juice and was talking to my buddy that works there. He did a quick build on the same atty and used a different juice - Everything was perfect. So it came out to POSSIBLY build, but definitely a weak, weak juice that I was using. Mods, feel free to close and thank you, Izan, for your reply!