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07-02-2012, 08:05 PM
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#1 | | His Chicken Supremeness Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Virginia
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| http://www.suntekstore.com/goods.php...tm_source=gbus
Anyone heard of this? It says it holds four 18650's.
That's speaking a few ideas in my head. Two 18650's and a boost chip? Built-in charging for parallel batteries? Not to mention, the other side of the mod has no seam so you can put a socket there and still remove the battery door for repair?!
Can I get a fuck yes?
I want to play with one!
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07-02-2012, 08:07 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Texas
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| Looks cheap enough to tear up and throw away two or six of them if you are so inclined. Interesting! | |
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07-02-2012, 08:19 PM
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#3 | | His Chicken Supremeness Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Virginia
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Originally Posted by PlasticMaskDTX  Looks cheap enough to tear up and throw away two or six of them if you are so inclined. Interesting! | Indeed! There's not much waste if you break one. That's half the beauty of it. Just like the fistpack charger. | |
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07-02-2012, 08:58 PM
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#4 | | His Chicken Supremeness Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Virginia
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| Looks like someone already had their hand in the cookie jar. http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/for...t-mod-box.html
From the images there, it would appear that the batteries are wired in parallel.
So here's my plan.
Two batteries, one on each side. I'll epoxy in a divider to keep them from moving inward because this was apparently meant to hold four 18650's, not two, but since they are in parallel, it should work the same. The size of the four 18650's would've kept all of them in place, but not with two, at least I don't think.
So, two on either side, then I tap one of the battery contacts by soldering a wire to it. I then do the same to the ground. I then put a button, potentiometer, and an on-off slide switch in the middle with a connector on top.
Just to be safe... I'll wire the 2-way switch thusly so that the DNA has no negative effect on the box's existing functions by snapping the ground in two and sending it to two different places.
DNA -- Battery Ground -- Device Ground (leads to the device)
When turned left, the DNA is grounded to the batteries and can work, when turned right, the batteries can charge from the charging ports but the DNA will be ungrounded, leaving no negative effect on the box's existing functions or PCB and also working as an on-off switch for the device's PV functions.
So that's my plan!
...sometimes I wish doing was as easy as planning.
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07-02-2012, 09:09 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Texas
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| Just keep posting photos when you create, I live to see stuff like that. | |
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07-02-2012, 09:14 PM
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#6 | | His Chicken Supremeness Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Virginia
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Originally Posted by PlasticMaskDTX Just keep posting photos when you create, I live to see stuff like that. | lol give me a week, I just ordered it. There's no telling how fast their shipping is. I'll get back to you guys, um... whenever it gets here. 
I can't really do anything until then.
Hell, I can't even wire the DNA because I don't have another one after the altoids mod so I had to order another of those as well. I can't wait to see how this goes, though. | |
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07-02-2012, 11:54 PM
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#7 | | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Southern Indiana
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| ive seen that box before, and a person could re-arrange the batteries so it could be in series if needed instead of parallel | |
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07-03-2012, 09:11 AM
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#8 | | Dismembered Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: USA
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| Well some random thoughts.
I had a 3A output one. I ran a passthrough off it for a while, managed about 2.6A which was acceptable. Thought if nothing else it could serve as as a 4 bay charger, but like many 18650 China things the slots are too short for protected cells, way too hard to cram them in and it only manged to charge to about 4.15V. The instructions did explicitly say to only use unprotected cells.
The charging input on mine was a DC jack, had to make a cable. Also play close attention on how to re-set it. I guess I maybe messed up and smoked it. Getting the cover off/on was a bit of a pain.
Actually if you are going to the trouble, this looks better. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gold-Aluminu...item43af970ef8
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07-03-2012, 09:52 AM
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#9 | | Mr. DragOn Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: yonder...upright
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| Nice find JJ...unfortunately this suffers from the same problem as so many of these extrusions..just too wide to fit in the hand comfortably as a PV IMO
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07-03-2012, 10:05 AM
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#10 | | Dismembered Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: USA
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Originally Posted by berger Nice find JJ...unfortunately this suffers from the same problem as so many of these extrusions..just too wide to fit in the hand comfortably as a PV IMO | That's true, but it was offered as an alternative to the equally wide one the OP was considering.
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07-03-2012, 10:32 AM
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#11 | | His Chicken Supremeness Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Virginia
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Originally Posted by JohnnyJames Well some random thoughts.
I had a 3A output one. I ran a passthrough off it for a while, managed about 2.6A which was acceptable. Thought if nothing else it could serve as as a 4 bay charger, but like many 18650 China things the slots are too short for protected cells, way too hard to cram them in and it only manged to charge to about 4.15V. The instructions did explicitly say to only use unprotected cells.
The charging input on mine was a DC jack, had to make a cable. Also play close attention on how to re-set it. I guess I maybe messed up and smoked it. Getting the cover off/on was a bit of a pain.
Actually if you are going to the trouble, this looks better. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gold-Aluminu...item43af970ef8 | Yeah, that does actually look better. I'll look into that one after this mod.
But the battery fitting thing isn't an issue. I'll be using IMR's and the box I posted has usb mini input charging as well as DC adapter input charging so I can choose either or. I also won't be using it as a passthrough. I'll be turning the box itself into a mod by only using two of the battery slots and using the rest for my switch, socket, DNA chip, button and potentiometer.
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07-03-2012, 01:11 PM
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#12 | | Senior Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: New York
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Originally Posted by Meat Circus http://www.suntekstore.com/goods.php...tm_source=gbus
Anyone heard of this? It says it holds four 18650's.
That's speaking a few ideas in my head. Two 18650's and a boost chip? Built-in charging for parallel batteries? Not to mention, the other side of the mod has no seam so you can put a socket there and still remove the battery door for repair?!
Can I get a fuck yes?
I want to play with one! | FUCK YES! | |
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07-03-2012, 05:28 PM
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#13 | | Twinkle Toes Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: In the corner out of the grip
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Originally Posted by JohnnyJames Well some random thoughts.
I had a 3A output one. I ran a passthrough off it for a while, managed about 2.6A which was acceptable. Thought if nothing else it could serve as as a 4 bay charger, but like many 18650 China things the slots are too short for protected cells, way too hard to cram them in and it only manged to charge to about 4.15V. The instructions did explicitly say to only use unprotected cells.
The charging input on mine was a DC jack, had to make a cable. Also play close attention on how to re-set it. I guess I maybe messed up and smoked it. Getting the cover off/on was a bit of a pain.
Actually if you are going to the trouble, this looks better. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gold-Aluminu...item43af970ef8 | I like the "DC In" port. It's a mini USB connector, but the diagram shows a round connector.
Like a cheap "Automatic" KVM switch I bought on eBay...it says "Sonsole" for the console connections... | |
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07-03-2012, 06:18 PM
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#14 | | In Science We Trust Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Tonganoxie, KS
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Originally Posted by Steampunk Like a cheap "Automatic" KVM switch I bought on eBay...it says "Sonsole" for the console connections... | Link!
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07-03-2012, 08:37 PM
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#15 | | Dismembered Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: USA
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| This is basically the one I had.  http://www.ebay.com/itm/3A-Output-5v...item27bcf3bcce
It worked fine with 3 cells. The plan was to simply use one empty battery slot for the atty connector and switch. Done... 5V 2.6A mod.
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07-03-2012, 08:43 PM
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#16 | | His Chicken Supremeness Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Virginia
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Originally Posted by JohnnyJames | Nice, man. My only question is, did the plan work? | |
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