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The board would use some of the power, but that would hardly be noticeable, more likely it's the sort of battery contacts used having a far higher voltage drop than mechs.  I don't know what they are like in that mod, but if they are anything like those sh1tty Keystone sleds or contacts it's not suppressing. (It is not that they are bad per se, fine for torches or mp3 players, but nowhere near good enough for ecigs IMO).

I'm about 3 secs avg ATM, but I would guess 60 W+ vapers would be more like 2 secs.

I asked if they would amalgamate stats for all devices a user owned and they did, go ask them anything about the stats, you may have to wait several days for a reply they are not the most commutative people.  And you can download your own stats and load them into a spreadsheet or database if you like.

IIRC James took those very short puffs out of the data recently, you can join the forum and ask or make suggestions, I'm a member with 127,145 puffs recorded so far. My avg puff over about 18 months is 3.5 seconds, 40 W at 363 F, though more like 50 W recently.

Scientists disagreeing, especially about new things is what they do and how they discover and prove things, show them good tests they can repeat and get the same results they will believe them, but they are proof orientated as a group. There have been so many poor test and a good few ridiculous ones any efforts by a scientific body to improve should be encouraged IMO,.

I haven't watched the Q&A you mention, but they need a reliable way to test, that's their job so standardising on one or even a few typical set ups is a given if the results are to be comparable and provide a consistent body of easily verifiable data.  Most of the people have just seen the unrealistic testing and come from a different background and I for one don't want them to keep overpowering CE4s and calling it data (information to be more correct).  IMO it is very positive that they are getting lead in the right direction, sure it's a learning curve for them as vaping is for all of us at first.  EG the bit were it was said the standard test puff was 30 seconds, but they could go here and get stats on a large number of real vapers for well over a year showing the avg puff is around 50 W and just over 2 seconds. Only DNA users ATM, but it is an open protocol that any manufacture can submit data to or do their own version if they want to help, but it is real data on real vapers that challenges the old theoretical model and far far better than no real community data at all. We need the results from realistic testing and anything that gets them closer is a good thing IMO, sure they don't all get it yet, but there were some good speakers.

The one that made me bulk was the lady who ran a vape shop who didn't have a scobby about charging and though putting a high amp micro USB supply was dangerous, not since the old cloned egos and it has never been with stuff that uses a micro USB leads.  That level of ignorance for someone selling the kit is astounding, can we be surprised scientists that have probable never smoked let lone vaped are equally ill informed?  It's all new, it's not like we learnt this stuff while growing up from a our grand parents and until we find facts ignorance fills the void by definition.  That's not necessarily bad intent, just nature of being human we take time to learn things and most don't even bother trying if they don't have to.

Who ever gets the patient on the next mobile device battery tech (assuming it's similar to the claims here and patentable) is gonna be mega rich, even a few percent of it and it's supercars, villas and never work again.