Has anyone had any experience with this 3A regulator. Looks nice, I'm thinking of using it in my mod.
Zeus Mini 3A Switching Regulator
Zeus Mini 3A Switching Regulator
Zeus Mini 3Amp Switching Regulator
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Looks very similar to this
3A Adjustable step down switching voltage regulator
and you won't be disappointed at all. These things take knocks, drops and whatever you can throw at them and they're built like tanks. But I usually have to take the outer sheath off and grind the side of the pcb down somewhat to fit in a AA slot but have had no problems. Give one a try an let us know !!
3A Adjustable step down switching voltage regulator
and you won't be disappointed at all. These things take knocks, drops and whatever you can throw at them and they're built like tanks. But I usually have to take the outer sheath off and grind the side of the pcb down somewhat to fit in a AA slot but have had no problems. Give one a try an let us know !!
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Can't speak for the op, but the less soldering I have to do the better. I think the one I have listed is worth the price to me because of the ruggedness. In one of my mods I (twice) accidently left button firing while laying the mod down. melted down both atties and tips. Completely drained the batteries. Upon getting home I popped in 2 fresh batteries and a new carto and have been using it for months now. They pay for themselves in my case ! And the hit these things provide is mindblowing. I just feel more comfortable buying this and building a vv mod that I have 0 complaints about
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havent used either yet. also, i just looked at them quickly, and seemed about the same as the okr, but these have the pot already on them, makes for a clean installI can't see the built in potentiometer.....did you modify it to use an external one???
$20 is a lot to pay just to avoid soldering a pot and a couple resistors. Also, the OKR-T/6 is a lot more compact and has double the output capacity.
I think CraigHB was talking about the amps. The OKR is listed for 6 amps, the other type is only 3 amps.
I was talking in terms of current output, the OKR-T/6 has 6 Amps versus 3A for the other parts.
You're not going to get 13 Volts out of a buck regulator unless you apply 13V plus the dropout. So, with two 3.7V cells, you won't be able to output any more than 7.4V less droput. I don't know about the part you linked to, but dropout for the DimensionEngineering part, is 1.2 Volts. When that one is powerd by two Li-Ion cells, it won't output a whole lot more than 6V. I don't know exactly. Someone who has used that part could tell you for sure.
I suppose you could power your part with 3 cells if you wanted to output higher voltages, but running an atomizer over 6V doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. If the 12W you get with a 3Ω atomizer still isn't enough, you could use a 2Ω atomizer and get 18W. Though, I don't see how vaping with that much power would be anything but unpleasant. Even the dual coils (which handle high power better than anything else) put out really hot vapors at 6V.
You're not going to get 13 Volts out of a buck regulator unless you apply 13V plus the dropout. So, with two 3.7V cells, you won't be able to output any more than 7.4V less droput. I don't know about the part you linked to, but dropout for the DimensionEngineering part, is 1.2 Volts. When that one is powerd by two Li-Ion cells, it won't output a whole lot more than 6V. I don't know exactly. Someone who has used that part could tell you for sure.
I suppose you could power your part with 3 cells if you wanted to output higher voltages, but running an atomizer over 6V doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. If the 12W you get with a 3Ω atomizer still isn't enough, you could use a 2Ω atomizer and get 18W. Though, I don't see how vaping with that much power would be anything but unpleasant. Even the dual coils (which handle high power better than anything else) put out really hot vapors at 6V.
For some folks time is money, just sourcing the correct parts for the home assembled units takes time. One stop and just $1.25 shipping makes a whole lotta sense.
The other thing about the Dimension is this.
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