How to Choose Vape Batteries That Match Your Device and Budget
Walk into any vape shop and ask about batteries. You’ll get bombarded with numbers, letters, and technical specs that sound like alphabet soup. 18650, 21700, CDR, mAh, it’s enough to make your head spin. Here’s the thing about vape batteries: getting them wrong costs money. Worse, it can be dangerous. People commonly buy the wrong batteries for their mods three times before getting it right, wasting around $40-60 CAD each time. Others cheap out and end up with counterfeits that die in 6-8 weeks instead of lasting the expected timeframe. Maybe current batteries aren’t lasting as long as they should, draining in half the time they used to. Or it’s time to upgrade devices with no clue which batteries to buy. Perhaps horror stories about battery failures (thermal runaway, venting, even fires) have raised legitimate safety concerns. This matters more in Canada than elsewhere. Winter temperatures create unique challenges for battery performance and safety. Counterfeits flood online market...