@@markstanley7251 It's very easily dissasabled though, so you can just take out the electronic parts when they need proper disposing. Plus you dont need to throw out the plastic parts, you can just replace the cells (again because it can be disassembled).
You have been been blessed by the algorithm and for good reason. On another note, and what has probably been mentioned to DEATH is that the access to these batteries will drop after legislature change, therefore I would love to see more upcycling videos of other tech, e.g.: old phones/electronics, it's absolutely criminal how much e-waste there is, if you come up with a novel ideal regarding this it would be greatly appreciated!
Couldn't agree more! I've got plans to convert cheap broken hoverboards into ebike motors and stuff, so hopefully we will have lots of interesting electronics upcycling vids to come!
Honestly In most of the world. These will be available for a lot of years. Smoking is never killed. As smoking becomes more and more addictive it also becomes more expencive.
Won't the only difference be that instead of these ones, they'll all just come with a free (hopefully USB-c) charger module on them? I've found around 4 chucked in bushes with a usb recharge circuit included and 3 of them look very similar to the disposable except for the port hole
I'm in college and I tell my friends to bring their old ended vapes to me. I have a few of them and still collecting, making them more useful things like flashlights or a simple power bank and give to my friend or just keep it to myself. Its actually really great to see turning garbage to something useful. Thanks to awesome youtubers like you for courage!
Not going to lie, I actually didn't like your first video about making this, I'm glad you went back and kept working on it. Great project and video, very informative and a good amount of focus on safety.
Genius! i have always collected these for a project just like this. but i never really thought about just how much E-waste these are causing. you are saving the world!
ARS Techinica did you dirty with the "dodgy" part on that headline xD Hacked? True. Makeshift? Fair. But dodgy was too much. Also, destructive tests are awesome. No better way to demonstrate risks and failure modes than exploding and burning stuff!
Idk man, it looks nice, but that copper tape he placed on the top of the cell is dodgy af. It overlapped the sides too much. Unless these are different than a typical 18650 where the top cap is the positive, but the whole shaft beneath is the negative. You place an insulating ring around the top to prevent the nickel from puncturing the heartshrink causing a short and thus a fire
@@user-bt2lx4gy7hIt's clearly visible in the video that these cells are different from 18650's, these are cylinder shaped pouch cells unlike the metal cased 18650's.
6:04 Oh my gosh, memory unlocked.. As a very young teen, my handed-down iPhone SE (1st gen) sometimes just completely died , I opened up the phone and used a cut down USB cable to charge the battery to a voltage where the phone would accept charge from the charging port. Looking back I'm very lucky that I didn't hurt myself. I did this like 10 times in total, just to save 20 bucks on a new battery. Also your video quality is insane for such a small channel and the views reflect that, just not the subs. Rock on!
Please add a BMS between the USB-controller and the battery pack. The Ali USB-thingy does by no means add the safety of a BMS. I have the exact same USB board on a 4S pack, set to 4,15v max. It shorted out after a while. Luckily I had a BMS that shut off due to overcurrent protection. Also I added an active balancer as the balancing function of neither the BMS or the USB board managed to keep up when fast charging, making some of the cells go well beyond their maximum voltage.
@@mistik1993 Tried to post links but getting an error message. But just a generic 4S BMS from Aliexpress and a Dali 1A active balancer. The cheapest balancer boards do not activate until 100mV imbalance, not helping much when approaching 4,2v. Inevitable the highest cell(s) will push beyond 4,2 then. But the Dali does a good job.
Mate you are killing it with these videos! Supporting what you are doing all the way. I picked up a 1750mah vape off the road today, absolute madness that these are considered disposable! Not only is it a decent capacity cell the vape itself is basically a pod system vape without the ability to refill or recharge it easily. The pods have their own contacts and the vape has spring loaded contacts, if people realised that they are basically buying and throwing away what could easily be a reusable device with the simple addition of a charging circuit for very little cost we could change the world. I hate this waste but it does lead to some cool projects those in the know
You've knocked it out of the park with this video! Your first two were good but this one is 5x better. If you keep producing videos like this, you'll have 500,000 subscribers before you know it.
I put these batteries on TV remotes, Motion lights for my stairs and old Walkmans. Get a little USB C charge board for pennies from Ali express and wires it up. Works a treat
I’m wondering if it’s possible to use the charging board that these vapes have maybe find a 5v output that stays on without needing to be activated by the sensor
Man this was worth the wait, v2 looks real fresh! My only suggestion would be that for the four balancing wires, it would be better to used ferrules on the ends of the wires instead of tinning them with solder. I say this because the solder will be deformed over time by the clamping force of the connector, and solder tends to crack due to this. Since this is for the balancing wires as well, it is a bit concerning. Using ferrules will ensure that the connection retains the same connectivity as the day it was assembled, and ensures the most contact between the wire and the spring loaded clamping connector. Using a pcb mounted solderable fuse for each battery instead of the copper trace might be a better option for longevity, since switching out a fuse is easier than repairing a copper trace, and less janky. All in all, cant wait for the next video and more 3D animations, they really do help with explaining concepts like these to the masses. Cheers!
I would watch and support you making just another ones and I am glad to see you have other projects in the works. Even these cells are outlawed to be used as disposable, it would be a worthy sacrifice to the algorithm :D
Nice work Chris! I've been following this journey for a while now and I have to say your work is inspiring. Me and some university friends decided to start a company focusing on sustainable tech for the maker community called SecondLife Research and through this announced our first product, EcoCell, a PCB that makes single cell vape batteries safely rechargeable for reuse in low power electronic projects! We're always researching ways in which we can use technology to reduce E-waste or promote sustainability so if you'd like to collaborate on a project let me know!
I'm actually used these rechargeable batteries to 'de-batterize' entire thing in my house. Started from simple tv remotes, then some small technics like alarm clocks, head light, kitchen scale and such. They've saved a lot of money, and I've already forgotten the last time I went shopping for batteries.😅
Im so happy to see this next video has come! was on my way to bed but ought to stay up now, glad to finally see some honest good stuff on these things and especially with open source, so excited to get going with this!
You're doing amazing work here by open sourcing the designs. After your first video, I asked a few friends who use this kind of vapes to keep them for me. At some point I might get to building something like this.
I am finally going to be able to start making these for my local area. I know a ton of people who have these and I could easily make a lot of them with this now available. Thank you for the hard work. You are AMAZING dude.
Yes! Your going to do a power wall. I can't wait to see that,when I saw your first video that was the first thing I thought of, best of luck,super excited to see the next video
i find it wild, that one time use rechargeable devices are somehow allowed in europe, that's so "green" you can't get a normal plastic bag for your shopping anymore. But i guess if it's addictive enough and falls under the jurisdiction of the tobacco lobby, it's fine, and we turn a blind eye.
Your videos among some others inspired me to replace my dead ps3 controller battery with a recycled one from a vape. The capacity is now 2.5x the original and I’m proud!
@@noahboat580 yeah I just carefully took the connector off the factory battery and spliced it to a 3.7v lithium cell of random dimensions. I fitted the cell into the handle of the controller and cut a little relief for the wires to fit into the controller frame.
Though I have no practical knowledge of the topic, I still find it fascinating. I also realized the brilliance of open-sourcing this. These will probably be sold online and cheaply made. Buckle up in case of that scenario.
You are doing a great job of recycling vape batteries. I've started doing the same thing. I've created an Arduino to do the battery capacity test. It was ok to use. It gave me a rough average of the capacity. But the test you have got that does 8 is awesome. I got myself one, and it is awesome. One thing I didn't like was how you used clips to connect the batteries. I've 3D printed a mount that sits in the 18650 slit. Then on top it has the space for me to drop in the vape battery. It supports all the different sizes. This was much safer to change batteries in and out. As I'm testing them. This might be something you want to consider in the future. Keep up the great work.
Great job, man! Also kudos for the very didactic 3D animations and the writing and pacing of the video, I feel like this video could be used in many classrooms to showcase both the dangers and wastefulness of this industry, and the wonders of electrical engineering, CAD and additive manufacturing!
thank you so much for making this open source. I was collection vapes for over a few months and searching for a compact design and power balance circuit. Now I will just use yours.
There has to be a way to put the resistors disconnect on a switch because now you have to mop up all those solder blobs next time you get a batch of "fresh" batteries
This is amazing and something I’m definitely interested on making and printing. I need to figure out how to salvage and get vape batteries locally. Maybe a bin and asking a local vape shop if it’s okay for me to leave it there with some message to encourage people to leave their used vapes? Any advice from others?
Id absolutely recommend doing that! Other viewers have been making collection boxes too. Also I have found that a lot of vape shops are also happy to just give away lots of used vapes for free because then they dont have to pay for postage for them to be sent for recycling
Absolute banger, bro, the amount of work and effort in time you dedicated to each and every cell making sure it was good 😮 bro…! And you even added a temperature sensor hell yeah!
I’m now 2 weeks vape free and low voltage tech has become my sort of hyper fixation in the vacuum that came from that. Seeing this kinda makes me want to try making this….after all I’ve got the cells just need to pry them from the vapes
Love this, and have been wondering how to do it for a while, so many vapes littered around the UK. Fortunately single use vapes are being banned in the UK on the 1st of June, stock up!
And we've had vape recycling for a while. Perhaps it's better to pop any vapes in the recycling bins, assuming they reuse the cells and perhaps the other components
I appreciate this! I've been taking apart my vapes for years now so I'm not disposing em directly in the trash, but instead of just taking them to the recycling I think I'd like to do this project.
I would love to see a version that works for 18650 (or just any 18mm form factor battery) , so that the same process could be used on all the batteries that will be coming from dead ebike/power tool batteries, etc. These are maybe in worse condition though, as they're generally actually recharged. Fantastic work as always! Your original vape video inspired me to get into this upcycling, and Ive since been able to acquire 17 (!!!) used hailong ebike batteries from a local last-mile delivery service here in copenhagen. Excited to turn them into something useful again :)
Now just because the cell is below 3v doesn't mean it's dead or bad. I've recovered plenty of lithium cells that were at even 0v and to this day work just fine. The most common issue to expect is less capacity due to sitting in low voltage for a long while but simply cycling the cell fixes that a lot of the time. Even self discharge can be fixed a lot by just cycling the cell. The main concern you have to look out for when recovering low voltage lithium cells is whether it starts getting too hot (Warm is fine and normal) and what the internal resistance is. If the internal resistance is high but it's fully charged, try cycling it as that also lowers the internal resistance.
I had a defective cell in a 2s lipo battery, didn't notice it at first and charged it like normal (not super fast but also not careful) until it expended a little 😅 I stored it a while before disconnecting the 2 cells, now I have a 1s lipo :)
You are amazing. Currently im collecting batteries in hopes i can do something at least close to this. I got like 80. Great tutorial,great idea! Much love!
I reuse these bateries myself, creating some lamps with the 3d printer, or increasing the capacity of some cheap crap from AliExpress.... quite handy indeed
An active balancer bms is a necessity for the number of cells in this pack, you kinda need one for anything more than 2 cells. Otherwise your cells might start failing very quickly.
This for 18650 also with active balancing and a few various configurations. What would happen if you didn't bridge the resistors? Would it charge at a slow rate?
An 18650 version would be great, and should be able to be made easily from scaling up my current design. If you didn't bridge the resistors, then each parallel row of batteries would not be able to provide enough current, which would cause the USB board to cut out.
Awesome work. I actually made a presentation about your e-bike video in college. It's awesome to spread the idea that these small things thought to be discarded as trash can be used efficiently in projects like these. Your way of presentation to the topic is great with the animation and stuff. Can you tell me what application you use for the animation in the video?
I don't know if the module you used has active or passive balancing, but it would be good to add an active balancer to keep all the lines at a similar voltage.
Keep it up lad you're doing great stuff I can tell from your acsent that you are from the UK I am from Liverpool myself. I have just made myself a 72V electric e-bike. From old laptop batteries 🔋 the public are crazy they frow away perfectly good batteries..👍👍👍👍🖖🖖🖖🖖😜
@Chris Doel Just a quick idea... have an LED and resistor showing through the other side of the PCB. You connect the LED and resistor in parallel with the fuseable links. That way if any of the fuse tracks blow you will get an LED idication. Maybe it could be integrated into a later version of the PCB. Great video and design 👍
I'm far from starting but, building a power wall for my sehd is on my 'to do' list. I think I'll be going 6S but my go up to 12S in future for faster charging. Got a couple of hundred 1750mAh cell from 2400 puff units saved up, just started testing them after buying the same tester you use, it's powered from the shed solar panel.
Thanks. Im not going into this blind, thankfully. Ive desigsned a few small boards and ran 2x Jaguar 2.6kWh / 236Ah 3S in parallel with a good BMS, this used to feed into an Arduino alaong with MPPT data from a victron 100/20 and PIR alaram data and send it over 4G. Kind of going to do a build inspired by things I've done in past employment. When I eventually get on this, I'll let you know. Thanks for the encouragement!
i have a bunch of disposable vapes of my own i have like 5 now and i need to find a good use for all of them because when it comes to voltage and charging im clueless
I been saving all my dead vapes for years for an unknown reason! The time has come! I use a power bank every day and the 10k ones aren't enough for a whole day of audiobooking
How many cells do you think I would need to run a 12v head unit with 2 speakers and a vibe mini 400w amplifier for a good few hours. Basically a comparible amount to a car battery but without the high amps. I use a mains 12v power supply that's rated for around 10-13amps when it's set up in the garage. I tried a 3 or 4amp supply before that which wouldnt stay on when the volume went up. The 10amp one works a treat at full volume. So ideally a 12-14v pack with a low current output and a few hours of life
Ok so hear me out, what instead of the solder jumppad we use tranistors(or mosfet maybe) to bypass the safety resistors once the batteries are normalized(yes i know the circuit board becomes a bit more complex)
Is it viable to print just two 1cm tall battery clamps, and hold them apart at the top and bottom of batteries with some standoffs? That could reduce filament usage and print time and weight.
You can make the slogan prettier by write it on the Front or Back layer and exclude it on the solder mask layer, thus the slogan will be made into a copper layer and get covered by either solder or gold plate.
Should 3d print a plate that has 2mm posts on it that line up with the center of all your cells. Can then take a fully bottomed out loaded cell and place the plate on and correct the depth of all the individual batteries at once.
turning garbage into not garbage is still one of my favourite things to do
Can you turn me to a normal person amdeadi9563? I think I could use your help.
I really miss this category of videos on TH-cam. It used to be a huge thing.
Especially when it’s e waste
if an electronic device that use battery is marketed as desposible, its will never be a garbage, it will be called fire hazard
if it dosent work it is turning garbage in to garbage. but this is a cool project
16:12 "Saving the planet 35 cells at a time" amazing message❤
Loads of plastic used though , it's not that e waste freindly
Plastic is only waste if you throw it away
@markstanley7251 If that 3d printed plastic is pla, which most of them are typically, it's made from corn starch or other similar biomass.
@@markstanley7251 It's very easily dissasabled though, so you can just take out the electronic parts when they need proper disposing. Plus you dont need to throw out the plastic parts, you can just replace the cells (again because it can be disassembled).
@@markstanley7251 You can use plastic bottles in 3d printer
You have been been blessed by the algorithm and for good reason. On another note, and what has probably been mentioned to DEATH is that the access to these batteries will drop after legislature change, therefore I would love to see more upcycling videos of other tech, e.g.: old phones/electronics, it's absolutely criminal how much e-waste there is, if you come up with a novel ideal regarding this it would be greatly appreciated!
Couldn't agree more! I've got plans to convert cheap broken hoverboards into ebike motors and stuff, so hopefully we will have lots of interesting electronics upcycling vids to come!
@@Chris_doel you can turn a hoverboard into a direct drive wheel, if that is your thing
Honestly In most of the world. These will be available for a lot of years. Smoking is never killed. As smoking becomes more and more addictive it also becomes more expencive.
Won't the only difference be that instead of these ones, they'll all just come with a free (hopefully USB-c) charger module on them?
I've found around 4 chucked in bushes with a usb recharge circuit included and 3 of them look very similar to the disposable except for the port hole
@@BlueJDev well thats neat because then you get a free charge port at the same time
Man, if you keep the quality, you are going to be a top youtuber in no time at all.
I don't think he's doing it for TH-cam.
Did you see the view count I'm 3 days in he has more views and watch time than I do in my whole channel in a decade in this one video
I'm in college and I tell my friends to bring their old ended vapes to me. I have a few of them and still collecting, making them more useful things like flashlights or a simple power bank and give to my friend or just keep it to myself. Its actually really great to see turning garbage to something useful. Thanks to awesome youtubers like you for courage!
3:12 ah, the mandatory fingerwag. I would give you thumbs up just for that.
I got over 1000 of these battery's. I have been trying to save up money for a new battery for my diy ebike motor. I think I might try this.
I love the idea of using "waste" into something this usefull, i hope more people do stuff like you!
Not going to lie, I actually didn't like your first video about making this, I'm glad you went back and kept working on it. Great project and video, very informative and a good amount of focus on safety.
Genius! i have always collected these for a project just like this. but i never really thought about just how much E-waste these are causing. you are saving the world!
ARS Techinica did you dirty with the "dodgy" part on that headline xD
Hacked? True. Makeshift? Fair. But dodgy was too much.
Also, destructive tests are awesome. No better way to demonstrate risks and failure modes than exploding and burning stuff!
Idk man, it looks nice, but that copper tape he placed on the top of the cell is dodgy af. It overlapped the sides too much.
Unless these are different than a typical 18650 where the top cap is the positive, but the whole shaft beneath is the negative. You place an insulating ring around the top to prevent the nickel from puncturing the heartshrink causing a short and thus a fire
@@user-bt2lx4gy7hIt's clearly visible in the video that these cells are different from 18650's, these are cylinder shaped pouch cells unlike the metal cased 18650's.
6:04 Oh my gosh, memory unlocked..
As a very young teen, my handed-down iPhone SE (1st gen) sometimes just completely died , I opened up the phone and used a cut down USB cable to charge the battery to a voltage where the phone would accept charge from the charging port. Looking back I'm very lucky that I didn't hurt myself. I did this like 10 times in total, just to save 20 bucks on a new battery.
Also your video quality is insane for such a small channel and the views reflect that, just not the subs. Rock on!
This is a great hobby. The amount of vapes getting discarded and not recycled is criminal.
The criminal thing is the amount of teenagers who are inhaling random Chinese chemicals straight into their lungs.
Please add a BMS between the USB-controller and the battery pack. The Ali USB-thingy does by no means add the safety of a BMS. I have the exact same USB board on a 4S pack, set to 4,15v max. It shorted out after a while. Luckily I had a BMS that shut off due to overcurrent protection. Also I added an active balancer as the balancing function of neither the BMS or the USB board managed to keep up when fast charging, making some of the cells go well beyond their maximum voltage.
That's quite...unsettling
Can you post the links to your BMS and balancing board?
@@mistik1993 Tried to post links but getting an error message. But just a generic 4S BMS from Aliexpress and a Dali 1A active balancer. The cheapest balancer boards do not activate until 100mV imbalance, not helping much when approaching 4,2v. Inevitable the highest cell(s) will push beyond 4,2 then. But the Dali does a good job.
another banger, very nice that its opensource
Mate you are killing it with these videos! Supporting what you are doing all the way. I picked up a 1750mah vape off the road today, absolute madness that these are considered disposable! Not only is it a decent capacity cell the vape itself is basically a pod system vape without the ability to refill or recharge it easily. The pods have their own contacts and the vape has spring loaded contacts, if people realised that they are basically buying and throwing away what could easily be a reusable device with the simple addition of a charging circuit for very little cost we could change the world. I hate this waste but it does lead to some cool projects those in the know
We've been collecting 18650 batteries at the hackerspace for a couple years now.
Definitely looking forward to your powerwall vid!
Donate them to him!!! 😊
You've knocked it out of the park with this video! Your first two were good but this one is 5x better. If you keep producing videos like this, you'll have 500,000 subscribers before you know it.
I put these batteries on TV remotes, Motion lights for my stairs and old Walkmans. Get a little USB C charge board for pennies from Ali express and wires it up. Works a treat
I’m wondering if it’s possible to use the charging board that these vapes have maybe find a 5v output that stays on without needing to be activated by the sensor
keep up the good work mate! thank you for keeping that stuff off of the ground!
Man this was worth the wait, v2 looks real fresh! My only suggestion would be that for the four balancing wires, it would be better to used ferrules on the ends of the wires instead of tinning them with solder. I say this because the solder will be deformed over time by the clamping force of the connector, and solder tends to crack due to this. Since this is for the balancing wires as well, it is a bit concerning. Using ferrules will ensure that the connection retains the same connectivity as the day it was assembled, and ensures the most contact between the wire and the spring loaded clamping connector. Using a pcb mounted solderable fuse for each battery instead of the copper trace might be a better option for longevity, since switching out a fuse is easier than repairing a copper trace, and less janky. All in all, cant wait for the next video and more 3D animations, they really do help with explaining concepts like these to the masses. Cheers!
I would watch and support you making just another ones and I am glad to see you have other projects in the works. Even these cells are outlawed to be used as disposable, it would be a worthy sacrifice to the algorithm :D
Nice work Chris! I've been following this journey for a while now and I have to say your work is inspiring. Me and some university friends decided to start a company focusing on sustainable tech for the maker community called SecondLife Research and through this announced our first product, EcoCell, a PCB that makes single cell vape batteries safely rechargeable for reuse in low power electronic projects! We're always researching ways in which we can use technology to reduce E-waste or promote sustainability so if you'd like to collaborate on a project let me know!
I'm actually used these rechargeable batteries to 'de-batterize' entire thing in my house. Started from simple tv remotes, then some small technics like alarm clocks, head light, kitchen scale and such. They've saved a lot of money, and I've already forgotten the last time I went shopping for batteries.😅
The legend is back! Gonna sit back and enjoy this one :) Thanks for sharing bro
Hope you like it!
Actually insane, love your stuff keep going!
Im so happy to see this next video has come! was on my way to bed but ought to stay up now, glad to finally see some honest good stuff on these things and especially with open source, so excited to get going with this!
You're doing amazing work here by open sourcing the designs. After your first video, I asked a few friends who use this kind of vapes to keep them for me. At some point I might get to building something like this.
I am finally going to be able to start making these for my local area. I know a ton of people who have these and I could easily make a lot of them with this now available. Thank you for the hard work. You are AMAZING dude.
What a well put together video. Been doing this for a few years too.
Yes! Your going to do a power wall. I can't wait to see that,when I saw your first video that was the first thing I thought of, best of luck,super excited to see the next video
I love this project with every fiber of my being. Battery banks are the best
i find it wild, that one time use rechargeable devices are somehow allowed in europe, that's so "green" you can't get a normal plastic bag for your shopping anymore. But i guess if it's addictive enough and falls under the jurisdiction of the tobacco lobby, it's fine, and we turn a blind eye.
Amazing!! I loved your last video, glad to see you getting the support you deserve on this one ❤
Literally thinking about part one in the shower 8 hours ago and voila, part two is finally here!
Love these vids man! keep up the great work!
Your videos among some others inspired me to replace my dead ps3 controller battery with a recycled one from a vape. The capacity is now 2.5x the original and I’m proud!
Nice one well done!
Dang you mean the battery in the controller? Ill have to consider that idea 👍
@@noahboat580 yeah I just carefully took the connector off the factory battery and spliced it to a 3.7v lithium cell of random dimensions. I fitted the cell into the handle of the controller and cut a little relief for the wires to fit into the controller frame.
You just got a new sub and gave me an environmental Idea to pitch to my company where I work. They are an automation campany.
Lovely. I have great respect for content creators who listen to their audience and improve their designe. Well made dude.
I love what your doing as a person who vapes my self I'll try my hardest to make sure the battery gets recycled or disposed of proply
You're vaping random Chinese chemicals straight into your lungs. Give up.
Though I have no practical knowledge of the topic, I still find it fascinating. I also realized the brilliance of open-sourcing this. These will probably be sold online and cheaply made. Buckle up in case of that scenario.
You are doing a great job of recycling vape batteries. I've started doing the same thing. I've created an Arduino to do the battery capacity test. It was ok to use. It gave me a rough average of the capacity. But the test you have got that does 8 is awesome. I got myself one, and it is awesome. One thing I didn't like was how you used clips to connect the batteries. I've 3D printed a mount that sits in the 18650 slit. Then on top it has the space for me to drop in the vape battery. It supports all the different sizes. This was much safer to change batteries in and out. As I'm testing them. This might be something you want to consider in the future. Keep up the great work.
Great job, man! Also kudos for the very didactic 3D animations and the writing and pacing of the video, I feel like this video could be used in many classrooms to showcase both the dangers and wastefulness of this industry, and the wonders of electrical engineering, CAD and additive manufacturing!
thank you so much for making this open source. I was collection vapes for over a few months and searching for a compact design and power balance circuit. Now I will just use yours.
Keep the quality content coming, you'll grow quickly and have to quit your job. You're on the right track brother!
I love your project! And i am glad that you were able to start raising awareness with the first one :D
Thank you!
I love these kinds of videos. Thank you for them!
REALLY a good work you've done here, there is a couple details to change, but otherwise it's reaaaallly good
i never knew vapes could be useful, you have my gratitude for this enlightenment
There has to be a way to put the resistors disconnect on a switch because now you have to mop up all those solder blobs next time you get a batch of "fresh" batteries
This is amazing and something I’m definitely interested on making and printing. I need to figure out how to salvage and get vape batteries locally. Maybe a bin and asking a local vape shop if it’s okay for me to leave it there with some message to encourage people to leave their used vapes? Any advice from others?
Id absolutely recommend doing that! Other viewers have been making collection boxes too. Also I have found that a lot of vape shops are also happy to just give away lots of used vapes for free because then they dont have to pay for postage for them to be sent for recycling
Absolute banger, bro, the amount of work and effort in time you dedicated to each and every cell making sure it was good 😮 bro…! And you even added a temperature sensor hell yeah!
This is exactly what I need! I have been harvesting these in preparation!
YES! I've been waiting for this exact video. THANK YOU
I will totally do this. thanks so much for your crazy work on these videos.
Absolutely Brilliant in every way. Well done.
This project should be taken as an example for large companies of how they should manage e-waste
I’m now 2 weeks vape free and low voltage tech has become my sort of hyper fixation in the vacuum that came from that. Seeing this kinda makes me want to try making this….after all I’ve got the cells just need to pry them from the vapes
i love how even tho he tells you NOT to do this, he tells you exactly how to do this
I've started picking up discarded vapes I find on runs in hopes of doing the same bc of you!
Love this, and have been wondering how to do it for a while, so many vapes littered around the UK.
Fortunately single use vapes are being banned in the UK on the 1st of June, stock up!
And we've had vape recycling for a while. Perhaps it's better to pop any vapes in the recycling bins, assuming they reuse the cells and perhaps the other components
I appreciate this! I've been taking apart my vapes for years now so I'm not disposing em directly in the trash, but instead of just taking them to the recycling I think I'd like to do this project.
Very very good work, love it! Huge thanks for your hard work and sharing all this informations with us
every video is a banger. cheers mate
Awesome video man! Now you're got me wanting to go out and do something similar and create projects of my own from E-waste
I would love to see a version that works for 18650 (or just any 18mm form factor battery) , so that the same process could be used on all the batteries that will be coming from dead ebike/power tool batteries, etc.
These are maybe in worse condition though, as they're generally actually recharged.
Fantastic work as always! Your original vape video inspired me to get into this upcycling, and Ive since been able to acquire 17 (!!!) used hailong ebike batteries from a local last-mile delivery service here in copenhagen. Excited to turn them into something useful again :)
Now just because the cell is below 3v doesn't mean it's dead or bad. I've recovered plenty of lithium cells that were at even 0v and to this day work just fine. The most common issue to expect is less capacity due to sitting in low voltage for a long while but simply cycling the cell fixes that a lot of the time. Even self discharge can be fixed a lot by just cycling the cell. The main concern you have to look out for when recovering low voltage lithium cells is whether it starts getting too hot (Warm is fine and normal) and what the internal resistance is. If the internal resistance is high but it's fully charged, try cycling it as that also lowers the internal resistance.
I had a defective cell in a 2s lipo battery, didn't notice it at first and charged it like normal (not super fast but also not careful) until it expended a little 😅
I stored it a while before disconnecting the 2 cells, now I have a 1s lipo :)
You are amazing. Currently im collecting batteries in hopes i can do something at least close to this. I got like 80. Great tutorial,great idea! Much love!
I reuse these bateries myself, creating some lamps with the 3d printer, or increasing the capacity of some cheap crap from AliExpress.... quite handy indeed
we need more people like you iam probably going to build one my self bc i see alot of these vapes being thrown on the street here in germany
0:40 Okay _as a born-in-the area Californian_ I have to ask: How did the Golden Gate Bridge _hurt_ you? What'd we do to deserve that? 🤣
for real!
Great effort was put on this video.
An active balancer bms is a necessity for the number of cells in this pack, you kinda need one for anything more than 2 cells. Otherwise your cells might start failing very quickly.
Yes stripping down old laptops for battery packs is something iv done 👍
This for 18650 also with active balancing and a few various configurations. What would happen if you didn't bridge the resistors? Would it charge at a slow rate?
An 18650 version would be great, and should be able to be made easily from scaling up my current design. If you didn't bridge the resistors, then each parallel row of batteries would not be able to provide enough current, which would cause the USB board to cut out.
Awesome work. I actually made a presentation about your e-bike video in college. It's awesome to spread the idea that these small things thought to be discarded as trash can be used efficiently in projects like these.
Your way of presentation to the topic is great with the animation and stuff. Can you tell me what application you use for the animation in the video?
I don't know if the module you used has active or passive balancing, but it would be good to add an active balancer to keep all the lines at a similar voltage.
Keep it up lad you're doing great stuff I can tell from your acsent that you are from the UK I am from Liverpool myself. I have just made myself a 72V electric e-bike. From old laptop batteries 🔋 the public are crazy they frow away perfectly good batteries..👍👍👍👍🖖🖖🖖🖖😜
man i was talking about what you do just today and there we go. another video!
i'm eager to see you building a vape battery power wall
you were shared in Hascord and I absolutely loved all your videos so far
Would love to upscale this to use as a 100Ah 12v lifepo4 camper van battery alternative. Could be a good step in between this and the power wall
yay another video! here before it goes viral again
Thanking you most kindly from English England
Happy New Year 🎊🕛
A vape power wall is an insane idea. That’s gonna require so many of those cells!
@Chris Doel Just a quick idea... have an LED and resistor showing through the other side of the PCB. You connect the LED and resistor in parallel with the fuseable links. That way if any of the fuse tracks blow you will get an LED idication. Maybe it could be integrated into a later version of the PCB. Great video and design 👍
3:30 next video: turning a vape into a granade
I'm far from starting but, building a power wall for my sehd is on my 'to do' list. I think I'll be going 6S but my go up to 12S in future for faster charging.
Got a couple of hundred 1750mAh cell from 2400 puff units saved up, just started testing them after buying the same tester you use, it's powered from the shed solar panel.
Awesome! I love to hear about people doing similar stuff. Stay safe!
Thanks.
Im not going into this blind, thankfully.
Ive desigsned a few small boards and ran 2x Jaguar 2.6kWh / 236Ah 3S in parallel with a good BMS, this used to feed into an Arduino alaong with MPPT data from a victron 100/20 and PIR alaram data and send it over 4G.
Kind of going to do a build inspired by things I've done in past employment.
When I eventually get on this, I'll let you know. Thanks for the encouragement!
i have a bunch of disposable vapes of my own i have like 5 now and i need to find a good use for all of them because when it comes to voltage and charging im clueless
I been saving all my dead vapes for years for an unknown reason! The time has come! I use a power bank every day and the 10k ones aren't enough for a whole day of audiobooking
Saving the planet 35cells at a time❤. Can't wait for the powerwall video! Keep the good work!😊
Absolutely amazing video Chris keep up the great work!!!!!! ❤
Would you be able to make a jumper pack from vape batteries ? If you was to make the package larger ?
How many cells do you think I would need to run a 12v head unit with 2 speakers and a vibe mini 400w amplifier for a good few hours. Basically a comparible amount to a car battery but without the high amps.
I use a mains 12v power supply that's rated for around 10-13amps when it's set up in the garage. I tried a 3 or 4amp supply before that which wouldnt stay on when the volume went up. The 10amp one works a treat at full volume.
So ideally a 12-14v pack with a low current output and a few hours of life
Ok so hear me out, what instead of the solder jumppad we use tranistors(or mosfet maybe) to bypass the safety resistors once the batteries are normalized(yes i know the circuit board becomes a bit more complex)
Is it viable to print just two 1cm tall battery clamps, and hold them apart at the top and bottom of batteries with some standoffs? That could reduce filament usage and print time and weight.
wow this is amazing! im in the process of making a 3000W electric gokart and im planning to make a battery out of vape cells too
Will be a very heavy kart
You can make the slogan prettier by write it on the Front or Back layer and exclude it on the solder mask layer, thus the slogan will be made into a copper layer and get covered by either solder or gold plate.
Oooo yeah thats a really good idea!
Should 3d print a plate that has 2mm posts on it that line up with the center of all your cells. Can then take a fully bottomed out loaded cell and place the plate on and correct the depth of all the individual batteries at once.
Good going chris! Keep it up 🎉