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Thanks for the heads up prof. I've got all those batteries, so one way or another I'm sorted... Cheers!

I'm not too fussed about stacking batteries in my SD... however, if I can put in there a 2800Mah Senybor 18650, then I'll be more than happy, and it'll surely last me

Oh heck! Is that you Mum?




Hey, you guys are already assuming I won't want to keep the pipe.... are they that bad? :-)

I think it's fantastic that Lisa is getting these in... I know I've just sold both my Ultra and my Ultramax, but I have to admit that a big part of that was that to get any more bits I knew I was just going to have to fork out more customs duty, and that, frankly simply put me off....

Lisa has posted on UKV her projected (but not necessarily final) prices at:-

UltraLite with RES £112.95
Ultra with RES £129.95
UltraMax with RES £141.95

So looks comparable with the US Price, but minus the duty and cheaper delivery, definitely a more attractive prospect... the cases too makes it all the more a winner.

I do seem to recall that there was some made, as I've heard mention of someone having one, I think on UKV, but can I find the thread in question? lol

Might have been Trog... just don't know :-S

As promised, here's a couple of pictures of my tinkering...



Here you can see that gone is the tiny square battery that comes with the mod originally. That battery is a 3.5v 600ma wonder, what I've put on here, simply because it was spare, was a Protected AW CR123a 750ma , now in order to make sure that the battery connection wasn't going to come apart, I was a little naughty, in that I put a blob of solder on each of the positive and negative terminals... then applied a little heat to melt the solder, push on the wire, then let the solder harden. I was especially wary with this as you're really not supposed to do this, so I wouldn't recommend that anyone do this! Once soldered, I taped up the contacts... You may also be able to see in this pic that prior to the previous operation I extended the positive and ground wires, this is pretty essential as the original wires are quite short. No simple twist of the cable cores though, I twisted them together to form a mechanical connection, and then soldered in place, and taped up.

Also in this same shot is the base plate, where you can see that I've taken a Junior Hacksaw to the atomiser storage compartment to make space for the battery.



Here you can see the battery in place prior to reassemble.

The nice thing about this, is that it's not too invasive, and I discovered that the charge circuit still works! Lucky really as otherwise it would have been a real pain trying to change the battery!


Tim