Please help. I'm confused

[Kaiju]

Hi, so first off I'm new here! Nice to meet you! So here's the issue I'm having; I bought a Project Sub ohm "Briefcase" mod a few months back. Worked fine for a couple months then when I would set my wattage (which was usually around 30 watts firing a .25 ohm Project Sub ohm Saucecode) my wattage would drop significantly lower than what it was set. I'd be lucky if I could get about 15 watts with it on a fresh battery. I did a little troubleshooting and tried other batteries, other RDA's and still nothing. Chalking it up to a faulty mod, I pulled the trigger on buying the Deviate mod. I had some fully charged batteries, plugged them into the Deviate, set the wattage at 30 on my Saucecode and same thing!!! Wattage dropped to 18! I thought maybe a new battery would help seeing as how the batteries I've been using are old so I went out bought a 60 amp battery (can't remember the brand) and so far the same thing. It was almost dead when I bought it and I'm waiting on it to fully charge now but I doubt it will work. I've been to a couple local shops looking for solutions and everyone is dumbfounded. I've searched forum after forum, site after site and can't find anything. I made an account here just to ask for help! I'm super sad about it thank you for any help in advance!!

 

[OBDave]

Could be battery issues, that's the first thing that jumps out to me. There's no such thing as a 60 amp battery - Sony VTC3 and VTC4 go to 30, otherwise the gold standard for 18650s is 20 amp. A good 20 amp battery should power the build you're describing just fine, but since all we know about your cells is that they're claiming horribly overblown specs, that's where I'd start.

fat fingered flubs courtesy dumb mobile phone

 

[Kaiju]

You know... I didn't even think of that. Before today I had never heard of a 60 amp battery! I asked what they would recommend and they said "20 dollars for this bad boy, they barely came out.". They're Eizfan 18650s. Same results with other batts

 

[nabibrian]

I too got the briefcase when it first hit the scene and I had to get it replaced first day out of the box.

 

[Kaiju]

Yeeeaaah.. I had the original one then bought the newer one they're selling now.... I personally wouldn't recommend them!

 

[Kaiju]

UPDATE
So I charged that new battery I bought to about 50 percent (I couldn't wait any longer to try it out) and wouldn't you know...it was firing at 40 watts. I'm pretty sure it was a battery issue? It's weird because all of the other batteries I tried using wouldn't fire above 15 watts. Honestly I have no idea why but it's working now. I'm not sure what chip the briefcase and the deviate have but they're both 60 watt chips. Just a shot in the dark here and 90 percent chance I'm wrong on this but maybe the chip regulates the wattage automatically if the battery doesn't have enough juice to fire the set wattage? Granted my batts were kind of old and the others I tried were around 30-50 percent dead but still... Either way it's performing beautifully now. Thanks for all the help.

 

[OBDave]

I'd still highly recommend looking into some trusted batteries - you can get four LG HE2's, HE4's, or Samsung 25r's shipped for less than you paid for that "60 amp" cell, and you'll know with 100% certainty you've got something safe to work with.

 

[Kaiju]

Thank you. I'll have to look into them. I have complete buyer's remorse with this battery. I kind of thought 20 dollars was a little steep for a single battery! I also bought 24 gauge kanthal from them. 7 dollars for 3 feet. I remember buying 50 feet for 5 bucks. Definitely not shopping there anymore :/

 

[iiKryptic-old]

Just a shot in the dark here and 90 percent chance I'm wrong on this but maybe the chip regulates the wattage automatically if the battery doesn't have enough juice to fire the set wattage?

Very,Very plausible, I am reminded of the SMY 260w mod, the max wattage was determined by the the chip based on the charge of the battery.

 

[Kaiju]

That makes sense. The briefcase is more or less a reskinned SMY 60 watt box. We're onto something. My vapor senses are tingling!