Weak hive not feeding and worried

[Newbeeneil]

I dont know how many hives you have or for that matter how many they will do but a good motorcycle battery is much cheaper to buy and far lighter to carry around...
K

I agree, a small 7ah motorcycle battery will do 5-6 hives

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I dont know how many hives you have or for that matter how many they will do but a good motorcycle battery is much cheaper to buy and far lighter to carry around...
K

I once had a battery from a mobility scooter (something like20Ah) light enough to carry and still held enough charge to do a dozen vapes

 

[pargyle]

I dont know how many hives you have or for that matter how many they will do but a good motorcycle battery is much cheaper to buy and far lighter to carry around...
K

Actually you are right - if you have to buy a new one - but you can pick up a 12v car battery from a car breakers for next to nothing that will do the job - if you are canny with the Varrox, switching it on and off you should get 15 or 20 vapes out of a standard car battery before it needs charging. Depends, of course, on the Amp/Hr capacity of the battery but the average motorcycle battery will only give you about 5 AH whereas the average car battery will be in the order of 40 to 60 AH. 10 times the life.

 

[Vanterrier]

If you have just a couple of hives to do and weight and cost of the battery is a big issue you could buy a 12v intruder alarm battery for less than £15
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/36356924...m_5H1q0RYO&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPYHorses for courses...
K

 

[Gilberdyke John]

I dont know how many hives you have or for that matter how many they will do but a good motorcycle battery is much cheaper to buy and far lighter to carry around...
K

Or an invalid scooter battery. The motorcycle battery (as with a car battery) is designed for constant charging while in use and deep discharging is "bad" for its life expectancy. An invalid carriage battery (as with a leisure battery) is designed for deeper discharge/charge cycles so should be more tolerant of use for sublimating.

 

[Vanterrier]

you also need to get on to ebay and buy yourself a cheap jeweller's scales to weigh the OA (about 2.5 grams per dose)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/11368962...BefguNkDuUK7B8z1EIzkjXkA==|tkp:BlBMUK6ZkabfYg

Thanks for this, mine arrived yesterday and is pretty neat for the price and far more accurate than digital kitchen scales.
K