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Powering the 4+ watt output diodes is more difficult with a single li cell.
Your battery springs strength and their contact patch as well as your switch contacts will get hot if not up to the current demand and your driver has to boost which means a higher current drain on a single cell.

For instance if your laser diode needs 4.5V @ 4.5A and your driver is 90% efficient that means your driver takes 22.5W to output 20.25W to the laser diode that outputs 7.5W ( nubmoa,44,08,of ect.... )

Also a single cell will sag under higher current loads, so an 18650 @ 4.0V charge may sag to 3.5V while outputting the 6.43A needed at 3.5V to power your driver with 22.5W it needs and as your single cell discharges, the current it has to output goes up to maintain the drivers needs, which causes further voltage sag, requiring more current.

So a high quality high drain IMR/INR type cell or a bigger 21700 or a 26650 would be a better choice if using a single cell to power the higher output diodes.
 





What username did you have before? You say you came back .. and what were you hidden, but why? from what?
Why are you asking me stupid questions on a Convoy thread? I lurked here for years and decided to register and to finaly post.
Anyways its NONE of your businnes.
I'm reading others posts about you that aren't flattering and you post about others being gay here which makes me believe what they are saying about you. You just have to know everything about members in a sneakie way, not from caring it seems.
Stop posting back to me..
 
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Powering the 4+ watt output diodes is more difficult with a single li cell.
Your battery springs strength and their contact patch as well as your switch contacts will get hot if not up to the current demand and your driver has to boost which means a higher current drain on a single cell.

For instance if your laser diode needs 4.5V @ 4.5A and your driver is 90% efficient that means your driver takes 22.5W to output 20.25W to the laser diode that outputs 7.5W ( nubmoa,44,08,of ect.... )

Also a single cell will sag under higher current loads, so an 18650 @ 4.0V charge may sag to 3.5V while outputting the 6.43A needed at 3.5V to power your driver with 22.5W it needs and as your single cell discharges, the current it has to output goes up to maintain the drivers needs, which causes further voltage sag, requiring more current.

So a high quality high drain IMR/INR type cell or a bigger 21700 or a 26650 would be a better choice if using a single cell to power the higher output diodes.
Exhaustive explanation, thanks! now everything is clear to me, would even a 32650 be better than the first two mentioned above?
 
Why are you asking me stupid questions on a Convoy thread? I lurked here for years and decided to register and to finaly post.
Anyways its NONE of your businnes.
I'm reading others posts about you that aren't flattering and you post about others being gay here which makes me believe what they are saying about you.
Stop posting back to me..
Ok, I'll stop writing to you, anyway I don't even know you and I don't care to know you, what they say about me let them say it.. freedom of speech is a common good that has no limits or boundaries.

Enjoy your stay on LPF.. as long as it lasts..
 
Here too, always the same screenshots..
Do you really believe that the world revolves only and exclusively around you? Have I infected you with the disease of drawing attention to yourself? Go play with your removed at least I'm not there..
 


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