What Kinds of Batteries Can You Use in a Geek Smoke?

Geek Vape makes some of the most popular refillable vapes on the market today. From the ultra-durable Aegis series to the slim and portable Wenax and Digi series, Geek Vape has a vape that’s perfect for every use case. Many Geek Vape devices have built-in batteries, but there are also several models available that use removable batteries. 

What types of batteries can you use in a Geek Vape? More importantly if you’re new to vaping, why would you want to consider buying a Geek Vape with a removable battery in the first place? In this guide, we’ll clear up your confusion.

What Type of Battery Works in a Geek Vape?

Before buying a battery for a Geek Vape, you need to know whether the device is designed to use removable batteries in the first place. You’ll know that before buying the device because the product description for a vape kit will always tell you whether it uses a built-in battery or a removable one. 

If a Geek Vape uses a removable battery, it’s most likely designed for a specific type of battery called an 18650 – but you’re going to need a bit more information than that. Here are the three things that you need to know before buying a battery for your Geek Vape.

Battery Type

Before buying a battery for your Geek Vape, you’ll need to confirm which type of battery it supports.

Cylindrical lithium-ion batteries are identified by numbers that correspond to their sizes. The most common battery type used for vaping devices is the 18650 battery, which has a diameter of 18 mm and a length of 65 mm. A few vaping devices are designed for 21700 batteries, which are 21 mm in diameter and 70 mm in length. Most Geek Vapes that are compatible with 21700 batteries will also work with 20700 batteries, and many of those devices also include adapter sleeves for compatibility with 18650 batteries.

Discharge Rating

Your Geek Vape most likely uses an 18650 battery, but that doesn’t mean you should just buy whatever is available at your local hobby shop. A vaping device is very demanding, and you need to get a battery that’s up to the task in order to avoid a risk of overheating. Before buying a battery, you need to know its continuous discharge rating or CDR. This specification explains the amount of current that a battery can safely deliver. Batteries designed for vaping typically have CDRs of 30 amps or even higher.

Battery Capacity

Before buying a battery for your Geek Vape, the final thing that you need to know is its capacity. A battery’s capacity is measured in milliampere-hours or mAh. As you might expect, a battery with a higher capacity can go longer before you need to recharge it. The thing about lithium-ion batteries, though, is that you can’t have a battery with a huge capacity and a huge discharge rating at the same time because those two specifications are inversely related to one another. In other words, a battery with a higher capacity will have a lower discharge rating. There’s a point where a battery’s discharge rating can be so low that it’s unsafe for a vape mod, so you need to be sure that you’re balancing the two when you buy a battery for your Geek Vape.

As you can see, buying a vape battery can sometimes be fairly complicated. The good news is that you can simply buy a high-quality battery from your local vape shop. If it’s marketed as a battery for vape mods, you can be confident that it’ll have the right discharge rating for safe usage in your Geek Vape.

Should I Buy a Geek Vape with a Built-in or Removable Battery?

Before you start shopping for a Geek Vape and the battery to go with it, you need to decide whether buying a vape with a removable battery is even the right decision for you at all. Many Geek Vape devices have permanent built-in batteries, and that design has benefits as well. As we bring this article to a close, we’ll explain the pros and cons of buying a Geek Vape with a built-in battery vs. a removable one.

Benefits of Geek Vapes with Removable Batteries

• A Geek Vape with a removable battery may last longer than one with a built-in battery because when the battery stops holding a charge, you can replace it. If you have a device with a built-in battery, you need to replace the entire device when the battery stops working.
• If you use a Geek Vape with a removable battery, you can charge your dead batteries in an external charger. This means that you don’t have to wait for your device to recharge when the battery dies because you can vape with one battery while charging another.

Benefits of Geek Vapes with Built-in Batteries

• A Geek Vape with a built-in battery will have a lower up-front cost when you buy it because the battery is included in the purchase. A vape that’s designed to use a removable battery, on the other hand, won’t include the battery. If you don’t already have an appropriate battery, you’ll need to add that cost to your purchase.
• Vapes with built-in batteries are usually smaller and lighter than ones with removable batteries. That’s because a built-in battery is usually a thin, flexible pack rather than a heavy metal canister. In addition, a vape with a built-in battery doesn’t require a sturdy battery door and metal contact points because the battery can be wired directly to the device’s logic board.

Wrapping Up

As you’ve learned from reading this article, buying a battery for your Geek Vape isn’t difficult as long as you know what type of battery your device needs. If you buy a battery that’s specifically designed for vaping, you can be confident that it’ll have a safe discharge rate and won’t carry a risk of overheating.

Before you do that, though, it’s important to be sure that you’re getting the right device for your needs. Vapes with built-in and removable batteries both have benefits. A device with a removable battery will probably last longer overall, but it’ll also be heavier and might cost more. A Geek Vape with a built-in battery might not last as long, but it’ll likely be slimmer and probably also won’t cost as much.