sony vtc shelf life

[tomkz18]

Hi I may or may not be in the right section so you'll have to forgive me if I'm not but I got a vtc5 and 4 the vtc5 is about a year old but wasn't really put through much strain as I didn't sub ohm that often back then and the vtc4 is about 6 months ish but was sub ohm'd much more I was thinking of re-wrapping them because I've not used them in a long time but was wondering about the shelf life and if it'll be safe to continue to use them thanks in advance.

 

[kaplan]

I am not saying anything [emoji5]️

 

[tomkz18]

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Well usually I would chuck them but seeing vtc's aren't really available anymore I thought it would be a bit of a shame

 

[gscott1979]

Hi I may or may not be in the right section so you'll have to forgive me if I'm not but I got a vtc5 and 4 the vtc5 is about a year old but wasn't really put through much strain as I didn't sub ohm that often back then and the vtc4 is about 6 months ish but was sub ohm'd much more I was thinking of re-wrapping them because I've not used them in a long time but was wondering about the shelf life and if it'll be safe to continue to use them thanks in advance.

I wouldn't call myself an expert with batteries but in terms of shelf life my vtc5s (matched pair) I got from myepack about a year ago has been used to power atties at res all the way down to .2 and they're still going strong

 

[cloudcuckoo]

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Now now lol

 

[Vaping Bad]

Easiest way to tell is do a capacity test to check they are > 75%-80% capacity, IIRC the rating is down to 2.5 V, but most testers will stop at a higher voltage.

 

[tomkz18]

Easiest way to tell is do a capacity test to check they are > 75%-80% capacity, IIRC the rating is down to 2.5 V, but most testers will stop at a higher voltage.

Thanks man I'll run some tests on my multimeter

 

[peps1]

Batteries tend to be classed by charging cycles rather then shelf life.

As VTCs were made for the OMD market, and vary depending upon the OEM’s requirements, I think you will find it hard to find a answer to your question that is anything other then speculation.

 

[mamba]

My VTC 4's and 5's, almost a year now and still got a lot of juice.

Charging them up as soon as it hits 50%.

I abused them, minimum .2 and and super sub ohm.

Using it on a single tube, dual parallel mech mods.

And my only 2 VW mod Sigilei 100 V1 and my recently purchase Snow Wolf.

Vaping between 80-120 watts