Hey guys,
I have a question that's been floating in my mind for a while and what better place to ask than here
So my laptop just got bust and it would have been really unfeasible to repair it as opposed to buying a new one.
I decided to take the cells out of the batteries, the batteries were still in perfect condition when I was using the laptop (almost no battery wear). The cells I got are 8 x Samsung ICR18650-22B so they have a capacity of 2200mAh, 3.7V nominal voltage and and a max discharge current of 4.4A (not continous, I couldn't find that)
While my laptop broke I was in the progress of building my own vape. So I thought I could use these cells but knowing the dangers of exploding cells I decided on doing some research, some people have used laptop cells to vape without blowing themselves up but I saw that the majority of people discouraged the use of them mainly giving the reason of the very low discharge current.
So my question is would it be safe to connect say 4 of these cells in parallel with a coil of resistance 0.3Ohms so you draw 12.3A (3.075A from each cell) which is 70% of the max discharge current?
I have proper cells that I ordered for my vape as well as other components that I needed, So this is really just something I thought would work and don't see why most people discourage vaping with laptop cells? If I do test this out myself (if you guys say it would be safe) I will use a MOSFET and fuse just to make sure that I don't draw more than say 15A.
This may be in the wrong section, Please move (if possible) if it is xD