Anyone With The ~200-300 Stick Style Batts, What Resistance Atomizer/cartomizer Do You Use?

[twelveday]

Looking on picking up some sealed automatic volt batts, 3.7v i think. I was wondering what resistance carts/atomizers people use with them, was thinking about using 2.0 ohm boge cartomizers if i can find them for 808

[blucavvy]

i use the boge 2.0ohm carto's on mine, however be warned that it will drastically reduce the overall lifespan of the battery, and the amount of time you get between charges.

a standard resistance for a 200-300mah batt would be about 2.8ohms.

http://www.avidvaper.com/products/Boge-Blank-KR808-Soft-Tip-Cartomizers.html

here's some low resistance carto's, they're just not boges

http://www.litecigusa.net/KR808d_1_Premium_LOW_RESISTANCE_SOFT_CAP_Blank_Car_p/premlrkrblankcart.htm

[blucavvy]

also, those new gen2 808's are not actually sealed, they just moved the hole from the center post to the sides of the post. they're more like "juice resistant", flood it with enough juice and it will still die, but now they are just much more resistant to death by juice.

[twelveday]

the confusing thing , is i read is higher ohms to higher volts. Somehow i guess i figured mismatching would damage the batt or atomizer, so what would hte outcome be if you put a 3.0 ohm on the stick style batt, just lower but safer performance?

Edited February 21, 2012 by twelveday

[blucavvy]

the confusing thing , is i read is higher ohms to higher volts. Somehow i guess i figured mismatching would damage the batt or atomizer, so what would hte outcome be if you put a 3.0 ohm on the stick style batt, just lower but safer performance?

exactly. here's how it breaks down.

you want lower ohm carto's/atty's matched to lower voltage batts

you want higher ohm carto's/atty's matched to higher voltage batts

so one would think well then i want a 2.0ohm or 1.7ohm carto for my 3.7v stuff right? right!

here's the kicker though, you have to factor in the mah of the batt. the 2.0ohm boge cartos work amazing on an 808 stick style batt, super warm vapor, and very large clouds. however lower ohm stuff draws a lot more power from the battery to help create that warm, thick vapor and on a batt that doesn't have much mah to begin with it will kill the batt in short order.

that's why you can use 1.5-2.0ohm stuff on like an ego or leo without having to worry about it, because the mah is at least 650 or higher, with a 2.0ohm carto you want at least 450mah or higher, which no stick sized batt has. the "mega" 808's have about 420 (gen2 anyways) but even that is really not good enough to run such a low resistance. it can be done, i do it everyday, but i can't recommend it cuz i don't want you coming back a month from now saying your batt's already dead! lol, personally i've run 2.0ohm boge carto's on ALL my 808's (220mah) for months now and not a single one has died yet, but that doesn't mean you or anyone else will have the same luck.

higher ohm carto's/atty's kick out plenty warm enough vapor at 5+v and several hundred (if not thousand) mah. to get warm vapor out of a low voltage batt, you have to drop down the ohm's.

does that make sense or did i just go on a rant?

[blucavvy]

here's an example, i use 2.0ohm boge carto's on my standard 808's (220mah) regulated at 3.7v and the vapor is perfect, put on a higher resistance carto (say a sr 2.8) and it's just simply not as good. that's the safe carto to run on such a low mah batt (2.8ohm) but it's just not as good as the 2.0ohm

on my 5v 808 passthru however i never use anything lower than a 2.8ohm sr carto, because at 5v it kicks out plenty warm enough vapor. the 5v doesn't have to work as hard to put out warm vapor.

[blucavvy]

let me just add in though that doesn't mean you NEED a lr carto to get a good hit from an 808 though, juice plays a big role in the quality of vape you get

[twelveday]

yeah i did a bunch of research and looked at the chart i found again to match ohm to volts, going high ohm with low volts wasnt the dangerous part, it was low ohm with higher voltages. It seems higher ohms with lower voltage disadvantages are just lower power levels

Edited February 21, 2012 by twelveday