Manual cigarette battery of smokeless cigarettes explained. Manual versus automatic battery defined. Mini electronic cigarette charge cycle described.
Manual Cigarette Battery
With smokeless cigarettes, a cigarette battery for electronic smoking is either an automatic or manual configuration. They are a rechargeable lithium ion model. The normal voltage of the battery is 3.5 volts and the rechargeable voltage is 4.2 volts. A good quality battery holds 180 mAh or more of charge. This charge is good for 8 hours use or 180 puffs per charge. The cigarette battery is designed for 300 charge discharge cycles.
The mini electronic cigarette designs such as the Green Smoke, Smoke 51, E Smoke and Blu Cig brands use an automatic lithium ion battery. The e cig battery is triggered to come on and heat the nicotine eliquid in the cartomizer by the vacuum pressure of sucking on the cartomizer. The LED tip will light up when they come on. If you take too long of a draw, it will shut off and the LED light will blink.
Older designs and custom models will use a manual e cig battery for electronic smoking. You need to push the button when sucking on the mouthpiece. You can take as long a draw as you like. If you start tasting a burning taste, you need to cut back on the draw. It is overheating the atomizer and burning the batting material.
You can use a manual battery with the Green Smoke, Smoke 51, E Smoke and Blu Cig brands cartomizers and cartridges with a custom adapter.
Charge Cycles of a Lithium-Ion Battery
A lithium ion e cig battery does not require priming like a nickel based battery does. That means they do not need to be charged with a cigarette battery charger for 8 hours or more the first time they are used. In fact leaving them in the charger longer than 3 hours promotes corosion by causing plating of metallic lithium in the battery and reduces their lifespan.
The e cig battery is charged at 4.2 V for about 3 hours. Full charge is attained after the threshold voltage of 4.2 volts has been reached. Then the current drops to 3% of the rated current.