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Originally Posted by vdbucks
Yeah, wood is so much easier to work with. I've spent quite a lot of time looking for the perfect 'box' and still have yet to find it. I ended up buying an oval v6 because that box looks pretty good.. but the internal components are horrible and are very finicky with what atomizers you can use with it. Not to mention it uses the small CR123 or w/e batteries; so I ended up cutting the box in half and extended it with epoxy so my 2600mAh 18650's will fit in it. Sanded it out real good and put a few coats of metallic black spray paint on it and it looks pretty nice. I'm waiting for my VV parts to arrive from madvapes, which will hopefully be here tomorrow, then I'll get it assembled. 5v vaping on 2x 2600mAh 18650's should be quite nice.
Nonetheless, the possibilities are pretty endless if I go the wooden box route. Time to do some research ><
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Are you using tenergy or Xfire or what??
I swear by these AW IMR batteries
http://www.supertmanufacturing.com/id75.html
Their 18650 is only rated 1600mah but they're made for higher amperage draw....
As an example, in my 5v box mod (also from mv) I had always used 14500 Xfires (trust, ultra) and they were rated 900mah ... I got the AW IMRs and even though they're only 550mah I noticed they last a lot longer AND everything hits A LOT harder on them ..... Not only do they last longer between charges, but overall .. I bought 4 AW and months and months later I still have two that won't die
If you haven't tried IMRs, do it.. it's an amazing difference. I'm no electrical engineer over here but apparently (at least in the 14500s) the Xfires everyone is using just aren't made to take a high current draw all of the time.
That said, I suspect that 18650s are a different animal.. They're a lot biiger?? Right?? So maybe even Xfires are good enough in 18650s? I'd still say that if you want them to perform the same.. consistently.. all of the time.. --- definitely try the IMRs
AW definitely makes safer batteries. They're limn and I think they buy them from panasonic and will only take cells that meet certain standards. And then they test them again, I think...
I've just got two IMR 16340s stacked (7.4v) with a dual 3ohm carto over here and it seems to last all day on one charge(hasn't gone dead yet).. I think because it's just down and dirty without any regulators or other shit, you know?