70 Amp 26650 Battery doesn't fit mod... help please

[Bunnykiller]

the tabs are there to supply a good contact point for the rated amps, trying to push 30+ amps thru a small contact point creates alot of heat at that contact point......

 

[DaveP]

A battery with solder tabs is usually designed to be surface mounted in a specialized piece of equipment. You see this type of battery used as a backup battery on large printed circuit boards to maintain the contents of memory when the power is shut off. It's often soldered or screw mounted (yours has screw holes on the tabs). Wrap it carefully in insulating material so it doesn't short out and forget it where ecigs are concerned. It's not meant for an ecig mod of any type.

Call the vendor who sold you your mech mod and find out what they recommend, then buy it.

 

[Midniteoyl]

Agreed... its for surface mounting..

 

[HawaiiHank]

To answer the op tho, in theory you could carefully remove the metal tabs since theyre just tack welded on. However, if oyu used a standard charger on a lifepo4 battery youre lucky it didnt go up in smoke and its probably dangerously overcharged. LiFePo4 batteries require a special charger.

EDIT: By remove I mean snip off, not pull. the tabs are tack welded on and will not come off without damaging the battery. I would not recommend using these batteries for your mech if you charged them on a standard charger, not to mention in general, as theyre 3.2v and not our typical 3.7.

***I Don't Want Bashing Or Negative Talk Please... I Just Want To Share My Experiences And Findings***


1. I originally typed a much more comprehensive reply to this thread about my findings, but when I hit submit, I needed to log in due to timeout and I lost everything... I'm retyping it again but not as well because that was really de-motivational.

2. Finally, a post (above quoted) which provided the answer I wanted to hear. After this thread posted, I used 16 gauge wire cutters to trim the tabs around the tack welded section. I just wanted someone to post my method after the fact to confirm that they would have taken the same route I took.

3. The battery slides easily in and out of the Helmsman 22650 mod and fires great. The battery has extra height on both ends due to the remaining tack-welded tab-- so in my Hades 22650, there is almost no throw and the mod sometimes auto-fires when sat down;

4. They will not charge in a Intellicharger/standard charger, and no-- the battery/charger did not smoke. On multiple occasions, I've charged ONE of these batteries (kept the other charged normally) beyond 3.2 volts into the 4's with a XTAR VP2. It now caps out at 4.16 volts, but I'm certain I've seen it go as high as 4.18 volts a couple times in its early use.

5. I didn't use these batteries too often. The lowest build I used was a .20 Ohm 24 Gauge Nine-wrap Quad-coil on an IGO-W6.

6. CONCLUSION: Would I have purchased these batteries ($35) and a XTAR Lifepo4 charger ($60). Now that I have it, I'd say No. I think the MNKE 26650 will work out just fine for your vaping.


Thanks guys.

Happy Vaping,
Henry