What are Mahs? Is this the battery life?

[icebluevapour]

I am not sure I understand what Mahs are? In regards to batteries. I also am not sure what the advantage of having a 50W Battery over a 30W battery.
and what does it mean when it says variable voltage and wattage? Im a dumb dumb when it comes to this stuff.

 

[retired1]

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[Dampmaskin]

You can read about mAh on Wikipedia.

50W battery? Do you mean mod? Anyway, here's an article about watts.

Variable voltage means adjusting the voltage of the mod to your liking. This also affects the watts.

Variable wattage means adjusting the watts of the mod to your liking. This also affects the volts.

Many vapers feel that adjusting the wattage is more convenient because wattage directly correlates to the heat being produced in the coil, while voltage correlates indirectly.

 

[v1k1ng1001]

I am not sure I understand what Mahs are? In regards to batteries. I also am not sure what the advantage of having a 50W Battery over a 30W battery.
and what does it mean when it says variable voltage and wattage? Im a dumb dumb when it comes to this stuff.

It stands for milliamp hours and yeah it corresponds to the energy storage capacity of the battery. The actual life of the battery is determined by mah along with how much energy is being drawn from the battery.

With variable voltage/wattage devices you have a board that regulates how much power is being pushed to the atomizer. In the old days you would "adjust" the power by adjusting the resistance of the coil used in your atomizer. These boards allow you "regulate" the power throughput to the coil as desired. They also make sure to compensate for the gradual loss of power as the battery's energy is depleted.

 

[proteckt3d]

mili amp hours - MAH yes is the capacity of a battery cell. Capacities differ on cells depending on the materials they are made from, size of cells or other but mainly by these two specs. Battery cells are not categorized in 30W or 50W or other values like that. Personal vaporizers or more recently box mods are categorized like this. These devices are manufactured as one unit which contain usually a power source ( one or more battery cells), electronics, some kind of outer shell and an atomizer connection ( a 510 connection being the most popular). On this unit you can screw an atomizer which is ready for vaping, you do some power adjustments in the electronic board based what kind of vapor you are looking for and what type of atomizer you have and you start vaping. If it's too powerful or too weak you can make adjustments in your PV and vary the voltage or wattage. One setting varies the other so you cant adjust both of them. Remember that, you might wonder about it later. Variable voltage or variable wattage ( VV or VW) are both measurements of how many amps are delivered to the atomizer. They both adjust exactly the same how many amps are drawn from the power source because they both use the resistance of you coil in your atomizer to set the amps. The higher the amps the shorter your battery will last, because MAH is a measurement of the total amps the power source is able to store. VV was used before VW in PV's and that's why it's still exists on the market, but VW is more user friendly and that's why it was adopted and indeed preferred by consumers. Is it kind of difficult to explain batteries in few words but what you need to know from the start is that the safest batteries are the ones called IMRs. Also the principle of Ohm's law is the next thing you need to understand even tough, I feel, that this is less and less needed as we advance in vaping development but you should look it up here in the forum or maybe there is someone that already knows where to go and can link you. It will be usefull to know I'm sure. Going back to your question, a 50W PV or box mod will deliver up to 50watts whereas a 30W one will deliver up to 30watts of power to your connected atomizer. More power as I said equals less battery life, but it also heats the coil in your atomizer more and it will vaporize more liquid leading to an increase in vapour, flavour or throat hit. Atomizers lately are designed with increasing bigger air intakes to increase even more the amount of vapor you exhale. But whatever you'll use, a rebuildable tank atomizer ( RTA) rebuildable dripping atomizer ( RDA) or clearomizers or more recently sub-ohm clearomizers you have to make sure that the one you choose is able to handle 30 or 50 watts without it's wick coil running out of liquid delivery. Burned vapor is not good at all for our health and should be avoided at all costs. Also if you go into rebuilding atomizer don't dry burn the coil. Clean the coil under running water and replace the wick or just replace the entire setup altogether. Ok, I tried to compress a lot in a few words, but as much as you can get from this is fine. If you have further questions feel free to ask. Welcome to the forum too.

 

[Yerba]

so I'm not the only one to not understand that?? good to know...

 

[Bunnykiller]

batteries are rated in 3 different areas
Volts
mah
avg running amps and peak amps

mah is comparible to the size of a gas tank in gallons the more mah the more "gas" it holds
avg running amp/peak amps is how much "punch" the battery can provide when switched on

 

[WattWick]

A 2000 mAh (milli-amp) battery is supposed to be able to deliver 2000 mAh (=2 amp) continuously for the duration of 1 hour. How realistic this number is depends on the age/wear of your battery and the rate at which you discharge it. If you were to pull twice that (4 amp) you would not be able to do so for the full (theoretical) 30 minutes. The gentler you discharge your battery, the closer to the full hour you would get.

This may not be 100% exact, but I hope you get the drift

As for wattage; consider it a measure of heat. Or how much liquid you are able to vaporize in a set amount of time. There is one thing, tho. What you are thinking of as 30w and 50w batteries are not the batteries, but the mods the batteries go into. How much strain a battery is capable of handling is measured in Amps, not Watts. Watts is just a measure of the effect of volts and amps at work, not something happening in the battery.

This is were I should point you towards some kind of Ohms Law calculator. To find out if your battery is capable of delivering what your mod needs, you to plug some numbers into that calculator. Set voltage to 4.2v as that is the voltage of a fully charged li-ion battery. Then add Amps - press play on tape - and you'll get the wattage your battery is capable of delivering. If you don't know the Amp limits of your batteries, please do ask around on ECF.

Sidenote: In Norwegian, watts are sometimes referred to as 'effekt'. Which is your 'effect' (duh). Sort of makes it easier to understand. Maybe...