USB mod with pneumatic switch

[madog]

Thanks madog. I always use a mini pipe cutter to cut the tubing.

Just clear coating it would be nice but I rather want it to look the same as the atomizer. And I hope painting it will somewhat disguise the joint in the middle (although it looks far worse on the pic than in real life).

DUH - Sometime the simplest is the easiest - I have been chucking them up in my lathe. You could paint it like mine - It will disguise anything.

Well - I could paint it like this - I did this in photoshop.

I feel BLACK is good - Kinda like Henery Ford.

 

[jdrancor]

dablackanarch, there is no auto cutoff anymore with the mod. I can't speak for the 901 but the rn4081 works with no cutoff. I'm puffing strong since my 2nd mod on the 17th of november. I use it for about 4 hours a day very heavily, and off and on for the rest of the day. I'm careful to turn it upside down at night to avoid fluid accumulation in the switch, which I'm pretty sure is what kills it. Otherwise, going strong, no problems with the pneumatic switch. Easier than pressbutton, in my opinion.

 

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[jdrancor]

Allright, so I got a battery holder for 4 AA batteries, and attached it to my MintyBoost usb kit. It works GREAT! Smoke is just as plentiful as with the usb plugged into the computer. So now I'm fully mobile. It takes a 6v power source to get the cig going well.

So for my next trick, I think I'm goint to try using a 6v lithium rechargeable camera battery to run the usb instead of 4AAs. We'll see. Deal Xtreme, here i come!

 

[jdrancor]

Okay, and I just put the 4AA holder into an altoids tin. Portable and easy. Maybe I won't bother with the extra expense of a 6v camera battery. I think I'll just get some AA rechargeable batteries and I'll be set. hooray!

 

[Grumpysanta]

Personally I wouldn't go above 4 AA batteries, I find 3 AA batteries is fine but 4 AA batteries makes the atomiser go very hot to to touch. My mod which is regarded as too elaborate by some people is working great with 4 AA's but I do worry a bit about how hot the atomiser is getting - well I vape possibly too often. I was going to put a 0.5 ohm resister in series but I'll see how it goes without it for the moment coz I love the amount of vaper and hit I'm getting out of the mod ATM.

 

[jdrancor]

Well, my 4AAs are run though the MintyBoost kit (from the Make store) and I think that helps everything to run well. My atomizer doesn't get at all hot - it runs exactly like it's attached to the computer. SO, I'm loving it.

 

[yo han]

Like I said before, it depends on what batteries you're using. 4 rechargeables will give you 4.8V (0.2V lower than USB) but 4 regular Alkalines will give you 6V. Quite a difference.

 

[jdrancor]

Wow! That is quite a difference. Too bad too, as I was thinking of using rechargeable batteries instead of alkaline. It's not really practical to just use regular batteries. Maybe then the 6v li-ion camera battery might be a better bet.

 

[yo han]

Well, you have to know that atomizers are meant to run on 3.6 to 4.2V. So USB is actually too high already. Using 3 or 4 rechargeables would give you 3.6 and 4.8V which is both OK. I wouldn't go as far as using 6V though. That's overpowering your atomizer with 1.8V (43%) and could dramatically shorten its lifetime.

 

[aaa]

The PTC multifuse resistor I mentioned a hundred times before, would probably solve the 6V problem, too, as it has a current stabilizing effect on the long run. So, you could use the same modded device at 6V, with just a little more vapor produced, and still no burning of the filling material.

But never mind. It is too complicated to connect such a resistor in series with the atomiser. Forget about it. Really.

 

[bluewolf]

The PTC multifuse resistor I mentioned a hundred times before, would probably solve the 6V problem, too, as it has a current stabilizing effect on the long run. So, you could use the same modded device at 6V, with just a little more vapor produced, and still no burning of the filling material.

But never mind. It is too complicated to connect such a resistor in series with the atomiser. Forget about it. Really.

MF-R050-2 PTC 40A 60V Fuse Resettable MFR Bourns (10) - eBay (item 120336655680 end time Dec-19-08 07:23:48 PST)

 

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Bluewolf, its quite expensive there.
I go into an electronics shop here in Budapest anytime, and buy one for 80 HUF, that equals to about 30-40 (US) cents.

Edit: Just now I see, you get 10 pieces for that 6 USD. It is OK, then.