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THE CHINA TRIP – JANUARY 2017
A PBusardo Video – China Trip January 2017
In this video…
Phil, Dimitris, and Dan go back to China.
Section 1 – New from Innokin
Section 2 – The Aspire Family Holiday Party
Section 3 – The SEVIA-USA Meeting
Section 4 – A visit to Sigelei
Section 5 – A visit to Yihi
Section 6 – A visit to FreeMax
Section 7 – Quack Quack 🙂
The Links:
Innokin
Aspire
SEVIA-USA
Sigelei
Yihi
FreeMax
The Video:
*NOTE: Any use of these videos in part or in their entirety without Phil Busardo’s expressed written consent is strictly prohibited.
The Photos:
THE TRUE VAPORS SHOW
Spent the morning with some great guys. Thanks for having me on Scot, Mike, and Mark!
WARNING – Adult Language!! 🙂
The Video:
A BATTERY MOOCH POST: Interesting battery announcements for 2017
Some very interesting tidbits of info regarding the specs for upcoming 20700 and 21700 battery releases:
Congress Can Save E-Vapor, Save Lives
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, TechFreedom and a dozen other free-market organizations urged Congress to amend Food and Drug Administration rules that will cripple the e-vapor industry, destroy jobs, and deprive smokers of a far safer alternative.
See the entire article HERE.
A BATTERY MOOCH POST: Sanyo 20700A 30A 3100mAh 20700 Bench Test Results…a great performing 30A 3100mAh battery!
Bottom Line: The Sanyo 20700A is the second newly available 20mm x 70mm cell I have tested. The first was the 20700B (https://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/threads/sanyo-20700b-4000mah-20700-bench-test-results-a-peek-at-the-future.775809/), a great high capacity cell I rated at 15A 4000mAh. At 10A-15A it runs about 25% longer than the LG HG2.
This 20700A is a true high performance cell that I am rating at a cool-running 30A 3100mAh. It performed well against the top 18650 cells for performance, vaping time, and safety (high amp rating). The 20700A…
…hits as hard as the Sony VTC5A at the start and easily holds its voltage up higher for considerably longer.
…runs 5°C cooler than the LG HB6 at 20A continuous and for about 230% longer. Yes, 230%.
While this cell will only fit in a custom battery sled it did just fit in the Xtar and Efest chargers I tested it in. I cannot say if it will fit in any 18650 charger. Otherwise it’s charged at 4.2V just like our 18650’s. It’s “standard” charging rate is 2.2A so 2A charging is no problem and won’t decrease its overall life.
Here’s the datasheet: https://www.imrbatteries.com/content/sanyo_ncr20700a.pdf
The two cells I tested were donated by IMRBatteries (www.imrbatteries.com). Thank you!
Test results, discharge graph, photos: https://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/threads/sanyo-20700a-30a-3100mah-20700-bench-test-results-a-great-performing-30a-3100mah-battery.784543/
All my test results to date: https://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/blog-entry/list-of-battery-tests.7436/
NEW FROM REGULATOR WATCH – Inglorious Action | TD Bank Torpedoes Vaping
Here’s the latest from Brent Stafford at Regulator Watch:
It was a heartless, calculated attack on the Canadian vaping industry levelled by one of North America’s most venerated financial institutions, the Toronto Dominion Bank.
Over the Christmas holidays, with just days left in the year, TD Merchant Solutions abandoned its customers leaving Canadian vape retailers without an online credit card processor and barely enough time to find a replacement.
Why did TD deliver such a blow? What was going on behind the scenes? And, is the Canadian vaping industry going to pull through?
Find out in this special edition of RegWatch, by RegulatorWatch.com.
RegulatorWatch.com – January 12, 2017.
FROM THE AVA – New Study of College Students Fails to Find Vaping ‘Gateway’ Effect
New Study of College Students Fails to Find Vaping ‘Gateway’ Effect
Longitudinal study finds vapers are no more likely than non-users to progress to cigarette smoking
WASHINGTON, DC — A first-of-its-kind longitudinal study could cause some to rethink the claim that vaping is acting as a gateway to cigarette smoking.
The study, which is newly-published in the journal Addictive Behaviors, followed 3,757 college freshmen at Virginia Commonwealth University for one year to examine whether vaping at baseline was associated with the progression from never smoking to ever and/or current smoking at follow-up.
In line with other studies on youth experimentation with vapor products, the authors report that current users of e-cigarettes at baseline were more likely to have tried smoking at least once in the year after compared to those who were not using e-cigarettes.
However, in a critical finding that runs contrary to the theory that vaping is leading youth to become regular smokers, the study finds that current e-cigarette users at baseline were no more likely to progress to current smoking than young adults who were not using e-cigarettes.
“The main finding of this study is there is no evidence that vaping is causing youth to become smokers,” writes Dr. Michael Siegel, a Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health, at the Rest of the Story. “In fact, the paper provides strong evidence that vaping is not associated with progression to smoking.”
Dr. Siegel notes that even with the large sample size, the researchers were only able to identify six students who transitioned from current e-cigarette use to current smoking. Moreover, some students may have derived benefits from e-cigarette use. There were 20 students who used cigarettes at baseline but had ceased smoking and were only using e-cigarettes at follow-up. An additional 45 students smoked and vaped at baseline, but were only vaping at follow-up.
Gregory Conley, President of the American Vaping Association, a nonprofit that advocates for sensible policy towards vapor products, commented:
“For nearly a decade, anti-harm-reduction activists have been claiming that e-cigarette use would inevitably lead young people to become smokers. The data is proving them wrong. As this study shows, young e-cigarette users may experiment with smoking, but that does not mean that these users are actually becoming smokers.
“In the United States, the rise in experimentation with vaping by youth and young adults has been accompanied by record declines in cigarette smoking. We should not lose sight of the significant public health gains these reductions in smoking represent.”
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About the American Vaping Association
The American Vaping Association is a nonprofit organization that advocates for policies that encourage the growth and sustainability of small- and medium-sized businesses in the rapidly growing vaping and electronic cigarette industry. The AVA was founded by Gregory Conley, a consumer and industry advocate with a long track record of advocating for vapor products dating back to 2010.
We are dedicated to educating the public and government officials about public health benefits offered by vapor products, which are battery-powered devices that heat a liquid nicotine or nicotine-free solution and create an inhalable vapor. The AVA is not a trade group and does not speak for any particular business, including our industry sponsors.
You can learn more about AVA and vaping by visiting the AVA website. You can also find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
THE VAPORESSO TAROT NANO & THE 2016 END OF YEAR STOCKING CONTEST WINNER ANNOUNCED!
A PBusardo Review – The Vaporesso Tarot Nano & Stocking Winner Announced
We kick this video off with a bit of comedy then move to the review of the Vaporesso Tarot Nano with some crankiness thrown in for good measure. Then we announce the 2016 End Of Year Stocking Contest Winner!!
Thanks to all the companies who donated to the stocking and to all the folks out there who entered!
The Stocking Donation Links:
DigiFlavor
Kanger
Tesla
Eleaf
Wismec
Joyetech
Nexvap
Freemax
GeekVape
Innokin
Xtar
Vapedroid
VaporShark
B. E-Liquids
JJ Vapes
Zen @ The House Of Hybrids
The Review Video Links:
Vaporesso
ElementVape
VOTech – Dagger Mod
The Video:
*NOTE: Any use of these videos in part or in their entirety without Phil Busardo’s expressed written consent is strictly prohibited.
The Photos:
A BATTERY MOOCH POST: A LiPo ratings rant
What the hell is going on? How did it get like this?
As I work through finalizing the list of tests to perform on these LiPo battery packs, and how to best present the data, one thing has become very clear….most LiPo “C” ratings are complete fantasy.
Not just exaggerated but beyond comprehension as to how they could be set this high. They are obviously “pulse” ratings of some kind but even then they’re preposterous.
For example…
A very respected company has rated a pack in the 1800mAh range at 100C. That’s a rating of 180A. It has a DC internal resistance averaging of 42mOhms after break-in, very high. At 180A that means even when only pulsed, with a freshly charged 3S pack, the voltage drops from 12.6V to just over 5.0V instantly.
The minimum voltage is 9.0V for the pack. That 100C rating is utterly and completely useless and instantly brings each cell down to a level that can quickly damage it.
Another example of ratings silliness…
More than one of these 1800mAh packs has a C rating that results in a current rating above 117A. Why is that important? Because at 117A for more than a few seconds the 16AWG wire some packs use can melt…literally! Even if the current is pulsed the wires can reach VERY high temperatures, hundreds of degrees, at that current level. How can that possibly have been thought to be a rating, of any kind?
Another example…
The ThunderPower Rampage 70C pack (not in the table) has a continuous current rating of 126A, as listed on the Thunderpower web site. Even the 12AWG wire it uses will reach hundreds of degrees when used at that high a continuous current level and very high temperatures when pulsed. The voltage sag will be huge too. Just ridiculous.
Having said all this, the worst 1800mAh pack still outperforms the best pack we can make from 18650’s. I just want to inject a bit of sanity into the process of choosing a LiPo.
The table I’ve attached here shows the internal resistances of the 1800mAh packs I am testing. The names will be hidden until testing is done. You can see that two packs have very high internal resistance, a couple are fairly low, and the rest are in between. Interestingly, the lowest resistances do not belong to the packs with the best reputations. Quite the contrary in fact.
More info to come as the testing continues.
https://imgur.com/a/M6uZq
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!
Sorry I didn’t get to the video today, I’ll shoot for tomorrow (depending on the size of the hangover 🙂 )!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!! ALL MY BEST FOR AN AMAZING 2017!
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