When you separate married batteries you get 2 divorced batteries that work fine alone. You just can't remarry them to another battery or each other. They must stay single forever.
It doesn't matter the mod you put the batteries in.... Important is that the (3) or (4) married batteries stay together...... They get drained and charged together so the voltage diminishes between the close to equal.... Sometimes (1) battery holds a better charge than the others....
I understand how to pair batteries.
Nope.... If you put 3 batteries in a mod.... That were not paired there is a chance that the weakest one will drain quicker than the others, this means that (2) or (1) battery carrying most of the load will cause one or 2 to vent.... Specially on a low ohm build that pulls heavy ohms from the cells.....
Thomas you are Right..... But if the battery drains to fast in 3 to 10 pulls on a mechanical there is a chance on the battery venting...... a mechanical mod has no way of telling you she is running low..... So pulling her n a battery that you think is full creates stress because she is not full ..... You could be taking a long pull and all of a sudden bam....
That was what I was hoping...Cheers!
If it has a possibility of any short is dangerous.... You unmarry a 18650 and mix it with others you loose track of it.....I'm sure it is in the right circumstances. But as Mooch himself states if the batteries are only 10 or so cycles apart and you're not doing Super Sub-Ohm builds (less than .1 Ohms) there's a safety net of the roughly 3.1V cutoff that most regulated mods have. If you have 2 batteries that were bought at the same time and cycled evenly through a single battery mod I see no reason why they couldn't be used in a dual battery mod.
If you watched the video he even states that the differences in batteries when you get them from the manufacturer are often more than the difference from a battery that has about 50 cycles on it. And he says that if you charge the batteries separately you are basically refreshing them back to square one. (Provided of course that they're the same type of battery and have had roughly the same amount of usage.)
Here's another interesting vid with Mooch. Lots of good info here on batteries. The marriage part starts at approx. 35:00.
He states that it's obviously better to marry the batteries but explains the instances when it's not overly crucial. This video was in Oct. 2016 and he was in the middle of doing some testing on battery marriage. I haven't been able to find the results of that testing though. Another thing that I didn't know before is that it's not a good idea to charge mods with batteries in series inside the mod ... via USB. I generally charge mine externally anyways and only in a pinch to I charge them in the mod. Learn something new every day!!
ODD THAT MOOCH SAYS DIFFERENT.
Oh dear!Unpairing could result in a severe case of blue batteries!
Manny, reading through the thread it seems like there has been some misunderstanding going on here. I see what you are saying and agree in your case it is unsafe.
