e cig power supply

[vortish]

my son broke his eGo-c-twist e cig and i took it apart and found it has a 13480
battery 2.55 wh i am asuming that is what hours. have to figure out the milliamp and volt it looks like it has a drive assemble in the top of the ecig and a small black tube for the case which i surmise is the same base for the 5mw laser pens you get at ebay. what I am wondering if i can use the drive for a diode

 

[BShanahan14rulz]

You can use it as a power supply, but not as a laser driver. A laser driver is driving circuitry designed to give the laser clean, constant current. An e-cig driver "drives" a resistive wire. Basically it is a glorified switch. Sometimes it is voltage regulated to some random voltage.

I would use a working one, and incorporate the 510 connector into a custom laser build that includes its own driver, if I wanted to use an e-cig battery as a power supply. Not a bad idea, either, since ecig batteries are a nice source of power in a small package.

 

[vortish]

oh ok thanks for the i info I think i am going or order a ecig working bottom and use it for a power supply thanks for the Idea. I am going to get one of the rechargable ones and figure out the ohms and milliamp and drive a laser with that. I think i am going to put it in one of my cases i have a bunch of. Its harden plastic with a 12 mm hole and a big hole for a rocker switch I think that is what im going to use for a customer build I also have a few of these and will sell them if any one is interested in a box style host

 

[Helios]

I wouldnt talk sales in a discussion forum.

I am also a bit curious as to what component you are going to measure resistance (ohms) of?

 

[lenneyjackson]

For Electronic Cigarettes power supplys we need to use an additional power transistor which is designed to supply more than 1.5 A of load current.The battery is the power supply for e-cigs. These batteries are rechargable lithium ion batteries.

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