Batteries For Free:- Well, Almost!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ม.ค. 2023
- Disposable E-Cigarettes contain lithium batteries (Cells) which are rechargeable yet thrown away after one use only. I wanted to see what was involved in safely making use of these batteries to run equipment needing 3.7 volts initially.
The process ends up not entirely free but near enough to be worth the effort and minimal expense. For safety you need a TP4056 charging module, also containing the DW10 chip.
Big Clive has a channel in which he covers many things electrical and has a few videos on this topic. He knows way more about electronics than I do so I suggest you check him out if this interests you.
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It's just incredible that people don't care and just toss them outside. Glad you're there to help clean up and it's great you've found a good use for them!
Cheers 😁
One man's rubbish is another man's treasure, but still it is pretty bad that these things should be so disposable and there is so much rubbish in general. Seems like a pretty poor state of mind to me but I don't let it bother me too much. Tc
That's really cool content. Love all your videos about climbing as well
Very good Chris, to think all them "disposable" vapes are going either as litter or in the bin .....
I do vape myself but responsibly and I don't use the disposable ones , what a great re-cycle idea , nice to see you doing some electronic work
Best regards Shaun
Yes electronics was a bit of a hobby of mine a while back so it might feature a little bit in the future. At the moment I am messing about with a Raspberry Pi but mostly it just makes my head hurt 😂
Underground, overground, Wombling free. The Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we. Making good use of the things that we find.
Things that the everyday folks leave behind.
These batteries are just so useful as all the control modules for various cell configurations to keep them from over charging/discharging are relatively cheap and easy to implement. Maybe more on their abuse to destruction later 😂🤣😂 So easy to find I have had to stop picking them up. You-tuber "bigclivedotcom" has covered them a lot.
Smashing vid Chris, all best Will
Thank you. The place stinks like I have overdone it on air fresheners from the scented flavors of these things 😂 TC
Hi Chris, we haven't seen you in a while, and I personally have missed your video's, I hope everything is ok whith you and your's, best wishe's to all, Stuart Uk.
Yes I am still alive and kicking, just involved in other projects at the moment. Some service may resume in the very near future. All the best and thank-you for the concern
Hi Chris, that's clever recycling, and you end up after a bit of enginuity whith a useful item, glad to see you wearing gloves, not only for the chemicals, but other nasties contaminating them from whoever used them , hepatitis B, among others can lay dormant for years, I don't mean you to wear an nbc suit, lol, just be careful mate, we don't want to see you I'll, your doing a sterling job, and long may you continue. Thanks for another interesting video, stay safe, best wishe's to you and your's, Stuart UK.
Thanks for the concern, these Lithium-Ion batteries are a bit scary too, the amount of power they can chuck out. I may do some more exciting experiments with them in the future but for the time being I treat them with a good deal of caution. I will progress to battery banks for higher voltage but that gets too technical for the channel as each battery in the chain needs monitoring individually so things never get out of control, but heck it is a good source of free batteries for anyone that can mess about a bit.
@@GrasshopperOutdoors Hi Chris, I gather that those batteries have the capability to have a thermal runaway, dependant on its chemical makeup it carries it's own oxidiser so the only way to put them out is submersion in water, so it might be wise to have a metal bucket of water on hand to drop them into, this runaway usual happens when they short out, starting internal heat build up. But seen as how you apear to be an electricifyer from the old school I don't envisage you having too many problems, if one does go up though get it on video,it'll make good watching,lol. Cheers mate, Atb, Stuart UK.
@@stuartlockwood9645 My two experimental packs have both gone through testing in a biscuit tin. The extra terminals on the commercial batteries are to an internal thermometer to signal to the charger when the battery is getting too hot. The charge controllers I am using will only supply a max upper amperage safe for the battery and will also disconnect the load stopping the battery from discharging to low. I have more experiments to do and I should really test to destruction, for educational purposes.
@@GrasshopperOutdoors hi Chris , all the best for success on further experiments whith these batteries, sounds like you've got it covered, any future video's on what progress you've made would be interesting. Stay safe, best wishe's to you and your's, Stuart UK.
It's bushcraft in an urban environment. I've been making powerbanks out of discarded vape waste cells. BTW some of those discarded vapes may be the USB rechargeable ones. Handy, because you can also salvage the charging circuit 🖖
Yes I have found the ones with the charger circuit in them to be very useful. To make use of them at higher voltages, say 12 volts you need a Battery management circuit which monitors each cell in the series or 3 or 4 3.7volt (nominal) cells. For 5 volt applications I just use a double pole, double pole switch to switch two cells from series to parallel for either running 5 volt stuff or charging.
Evening chirs, bloody interesting that. We're did you get the idea to do this?. Nice one mate. Tc Andy
When I first started seeing them on the roads a couple of years ago I wondered what they were. Then when I discovered the odd one was made to be rechargeable I though it must be possible to use them and did a bit more research. I found out quite a few people had already beat me too it, so now I have got them fairly well sorted out as a virtually free source of rechargeable batteries.
@@GrasshopperOutdoors lol nice one mate.
waste not want not ,strangely enough i can remember when every one repaired and made stuff oh crystal radio sets long wire in the garden what fun upwards and onwards forever a free man
It just amazes me how all this stuff works, it was a crystal radio, now you plug an SDR into the computer. Most stuff now is all surface mount, without any markings on them so it is much harder to fix or recycle stuff. When I first joined up we were still using valve radios and morse code 🙂
👍🏻 some good stuff there and they don’t do scrap iron batteries anymore so you can’t brake down and recycle them anymore.
Heck I thought the lithium in them would have been worth recycling but at the end of the day I guess it all comes down to profit. Thanks again for stopping by TC
@@GrasshopperOutdoors as a fire alarm engineer I used to remove all the emergency lighting batteries and put them in a scrap bin for scrap iron and weight them In with the 12v batteries but they said they don’t do it anymore.
@@sameoldbmx That is a shame, too be honest it makes me wonder sometimes if even the glass, plastic and cardboard is really recycled properly when I see it all going into the same dustbin cart and getting squashed up a bit. I used to weigh in aluminium cans at the local scrap yard but it really is not worth it now, but I do put them in the blue (recycling) bin
@@GrasshopperOutdoors most council have carts to meet the quota then every else gos to landfill from what I understand maté could be wrong but it costs them to do it properly, I drop mine in the bottle banks can banks ect you know there selling it so it’s going to be recycled 👍🏻
@@sameoldbmx I agree that is the best idea. I would like to see some return for our efforts though, which seem to be taken so much for granted 🙂
'Kids' chuck them away because they are fully paid up members of the consumer society. Smoke em and chuck em, cheap Chinese rubbish. One hit wonders!
What you are doing IS why I called myself Beercan Bushcraft, so I FULLY APPROVE.
Great video Grasshopper 👍 🍻🍻🍻😎
Thanks indeed. It is one of the main reasons I do litter picks, not just the vapes but some of the things I have found were probably not meant to be found. I might get the metal detector out one of these days but you have to dig about 250 ring pulls or bottle tops for every silver threepence 😂😂
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