PART I - Choosing your batteries (For everyone!)
So, that a majority of vapers use models of the simplest to use such as stardusts for example, for some the moment arrives when the desire to have something prettier, more powerful, more autonomous is felt. After long hours of choosing the mod that suits you, then comes the choice of batteries, and it is true that when you arrive on a website with a lot of choices, the question always comes up is, why take this- this and not another. We will often look at the price first, then the autonomy will come depending on the size of the battery, and for the more expert will come the choice of the chemistry used. A real puzzle!
Here we will simply see what type of battery to use for electronic mods and mechanical mods, of course for the most curious of you a second part will be devoted to the more technical aspect of the batteries.
Your first choice in the scheme of things will be to know what type of mod you are on.
The Electronic mods not exceeding 20 watts of power, for those there the intensity is managed by the motherboard of the mod, and in this case, it will offer you protection to your battery in the event of a short circuit, you can privilege the batteries at low CDM (see part 2) and favor batteries with long autonomy, such as Panasonic 3100mah. Of course your mod will not be incompatible with the batteries AW IMR which will offer less autonomy but will still work. If you use IPV3 type boxes which go up to 150Watts, it is advisable to use batteries with a fairly high CDM such as IMR, be careful.
To Mechanical Mods, you will have to be careful, indeed nothing protects you against short circuits and in this case the battery could race, overheat and in the most extreme cases, melt, degas or explode, of course, nothing is useful to be afraid, this kind of case happens only rarely, and often during a really inappropriate use. But we will still recommend batteries with a stable chemistry (see part 2) so that you can use it on relatively low resistances while being fairly safe, batteries with a CDM (Maximum Discharge Current "see part II") quite high are recommended as the VTC4, VTC5, AW IMR, Efest, and MNKE.
Be careful, however, as counterfeiting is common in these dark times, it is of course recommended to pay attention to where you get your supplies in order to have batteries really designed for your safe use. Just like “no name” batteries or anything that ends in “ FIRE "Is to be forgotten quickly because in the same way as their name they are likely to set you on fire.
At the end of the second part you will find a list of recommended batteries with their autonomy, the resistance of the recommended circuit and their CDM.
In Part II, we'll take a closer look at what a battery is made of, why choose an IMR for mechanical mods, and do's and don'ts.
Following in part II (technical)
