I believe its unecessary. Yes, resistance fluctuates as the heating element heats up, but simulating atty loads does us little good anyway as most (14500 or larger) batteries have the amperage necessary to power our atomizers with minimal heat rise, so little useful data is gained other then to say, yes, it went X minutes at this load or achieved X mAh or X cycles.
Maxing out the batteries and testing their max C ratings will give us much more information about their capabilities, failure thresholds and max temperatures achieved.
Weird, because the question I get asked more than anything else is about run times. So it's relevant. We can agree to disagree though. The other tests are certainly important and valid, but do not simulate real world vaping...
The other issue is that while vaping....the atty is asking for different parameters as the battery flattens, so as the voltage goes down, the load remains the same....so therefore the current asked of the cell also goes down...I think it's important in testing to show that
Last edited: