The thin walled steel outer tubes are a model engineer's dream. They can be used in the building/construction of miniature Stirling hot air engines. They are perfect for making the hot end heat exchanger tube.
@markletts8802 Жыл бұрын
Square ones too..😊
@greywolf28094 күн бұрын
Do you just crimp them?
@soulshinobi2 жыл бұрын
I can't express the anticipation in the first 10 seconds waiting for your beautifully unique voice to start
@LinusJohansson-yu7cy9 ай бұрын
I found that the sensors can be repurposed as a touch switches, driving a relay coil or a powerful LED for a keychain flashlight or so. Just peel the metal can away and solder a piece of wire to where the internal diaphragm made contact. The sensors will cut power to the output after 10 or so seconds and have built-in battery protection as well as current limiting. The circuits with six legs usually have a charging circuit in them and just need an USB port added.
@Darieee9 ай бұрын
gaaaah 🫠, I've waited so long for this thanks for sharing !!!
@gadgetsandgizmos9208 Жыл бұрын
I keep the metal tubes, add a TP4056 charging board module, an led, 3 10 ohm resistors in series, and a switch to make a rechargable flashlight
@burtpanzer Жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing.
@vexy198725 күн бұрын
Do you add optics to that, or is this super rudimentary?
@gadgetsandgizmos920824 күн бұрын
@@vexy1987 I do not add optics to them as I did this on a budget at the time, but the LED's are very bright and I have not had any trouble with it without a lens. The lights do get very hot however. I do 3d print clips to hold the LEDS in place now because it's much cleaner and professional looking. The clips also conveniently fit into the top of the vape tubes if I choose to reuse them, or into the top of 3d printed tubes so that I don't look like I have a vape at school or something.
@badwolf1984 Жыл бұрын
I thought I was going to watch a Big Clive Video, Subbed! \o/ another street lithium recycler!
@Darieee Жыл бұрын
ayee - thanks ❤
@suncoastwoodturners5818 Жыл бұрын
The cell capacity is the amount coming OUT of the cell, not what you put INTO the cell. I have seen Big Clive make the same mistake. Imagine trying to charge a resister, you would get great capacity by measuring the charge going into it.😀
@vexy198725 күн бұрын
The good news is li-ion cells are super efficient.
@Darieee25 күн бұрын
yeah dude - try playing with them charger discharge a few times you'll see how his mistake looks like in reality
@ivibivivgig64252 жыл бұрын
Found you after looking at one of BigClive’s split lithium reclamation video. I’m looking to try my hand at turning these reclaimed vape batteries into a phone battery bank. Do you have a good tutorial for me to try this?
@Darieee2 жыл бұрын
hmmmm, I should have some lying around my channel - you can parallel a lot of them and use a diy powerbank kit from aliexpress
@veracity91 Жыл бұрын
i dont know why you would be asking an amateur/moron.. you seem to think because someone posted a video to youtube that they know what there doing.. THIS GUY IS A MORON DUDE... go ask a professional
@soulshinobi2 жыл бұрын
12:00 "Still these will chew through a lot of batteries and are fucking up my planet." These are the critical assessments I subscribed for
@tehpunisher45682 жыл бұрын
Wait so they make these single use vapes? And they put perfectly good li ion batteries?
@soulshinobi2 жыл бұрын
Yep.
@tehpunisher45682 жыл бұрын
@@soulshinobi how wasteful
@soulshinobi2 жыл бұрын
It's disgustingly wasteful
@brendanrandle2 жыл бұрын
on the plus side rechargeable lithium batteries contain far less lithium than lithium primary cells
@Darieee2 жыл бұрын
true but .. still ..
@tikaanipippin3 ай бұрын
Most of the time the led in the vape circuit prevents the over-discharge of the Lithium ion cell below a safe level, unless the discarded vape gets waterlogged or damaged by crushing. It's the charger circuitry that decides if the cell can be charged or not. If the cell does not take current, then the charger stops supplying it. If an over-discharged cell is connected in parallel with a charger and a full cell, the full cell will discharge a little into the over-discharged cell until the charger can pass current into the discharging cell, and the over-discharged cell gets a charge too, until both reach capacity, unless the over-discharged cell is not capable of getting a full charge.
@kimberlynolz57254 ай бұрын
My ol lady builds tiny doll houses an i use these to put lights in them for her! Rechargable and very small. Just perfect for tiny things that need electric!
@outfeeder6322 Жыл бұрын
7:33 ICONIC LOL
@jonathaningram46722 жыл бұрын
I've started picking the bigger one's up out of habit the 3500 puff ones and some of them have the charger port on the bottom but get mistakenly thrown way as these ones have 1500 mAh batteries, come in handy for small projects or even running a small camera for a good few hours of video.
@patrickmckowen11549 ай бұрын
Build spy gadgets that still work as vapes. That could definitely make use of the spare parts.
@soulshinobi2 жыл бұрын
What I'm most interested in is learning about is the types and applications of these converters and charging circuits. My computer mouse takes a single 1.5v AA battery and I'm not sure what the simplest and lightest lithium solution I can install is, I can't find batteries that go that low in voltage themselves.
@Darieee2 жыл бұрын
biggest one or few of these .. + you can use the same dc-dc buck converter I used for the lights I see they can output 1v8 .. which should be fffine another longer route would be to find the possibly and likely present dc-dc converter in the mouse .. I have a logitech that creates itself a 2v5 rail .. so - technically you could bypass that, dump voltage "already boosted" to what the moose needs
@davidfalconer891310 ай бұрын
Use a 3v7 Lithium cell and use ( a selection of small rectifier diodes , Silicon or Shottky or even Germanium ! ) to reduce the voltage ... check with your multimeter ! before you apply it to your device ! ! ... DAVE™🛑
@hackjam3398 Жыл бұрын
I'm fairly new to learning this stuff so I was wondering if there's anything that would need changing depending on the electronics u put them in???
@Darieee Жыл бұрын
all li-ion cells are fairly typical .. they all have a nominal maximum current they'll gladly put out .. but - if you gang more in parallel that's almost never the limiting factor make sure to get a BMS to protect them from under and over discharging and a balancing board would also be nice (if you use 2 or more in series), to make sure all banks stay equally charged
@cheyennewilliams8300 Жыл бұрын
This is the funniest most serious video I ever seen 🤓
@ericklein50972 жыл бұрын
Whats your charge and discharge rate? I can't 'find datasheets for these
@ericklein50972 жыл бұрын
You absolutely should not discharge these below 3V. The voltage will plummet starting at 3.4/3.3V anyways so the the time @1A discharge will be seconds watching the voltage plunge below 3V towards 2.5V. 2.75V and 2.50V are discharge cutoff voltages for lithium ion, these are lipo cylindrical cells. Below 3V the cell is damaged and overdischarged lipos are much more volatile than regular lithium ion cells.
@jonathaningram46722 жыл бұрын
Didn't big Clive add a 1k resister inline?
@Darieee2 жыл бұрын
where exactly 🧐 ?
@jonathaningram46722 жыл бұрын
He put it on one side of the cable, reducing the brightness of all lights and apparently will run for days.
@jonathaningram46722 жыл бұрын
@@Darieee Here is the link to the video kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWi7c2l6bNZsaMk
@jonathaningram46722 жыл бұрын
@@Darieee I got the value wrong it's 33 ohms resistor but I knew he put one inline.
@howardosborne8647 Жыл бұрын
@@jonathaningram4672 I saw that video. Big clive is the main man for modding this sort of stuff safely.
@mr.zyclonic14632 жыл бұрын
So I have a question. I had a idea to use like 10 of these in a series to charge a smartphone, is that possible, and if it is what micro controllers would I need to make that work? thanks!
@Darieee2 жыл бұрын
you don't need 10 in series, you need a few in series and many in parallel we as a species, we're long past doing dc-dc conversion in microcontrollers there are countless dedicated chips for this task - search ebay or aliexpress for powerbank kit most of them will most likely take 1 to many parallel 18650s, but, you can just parallel these vape batteries all commonly available li-ion cells work the same way so, as long as you don't charge/discharge them too hard, they'll be fine
@mr.zyclonic14632 жыл бұрын
@@Darieee Ok, ty
@markletts8802 Жыл бұрын
I've fitted the LEDs in the end of my Vespa headset grips,just got to figure out if to use the 12v feed to the headlights or the LED in the Speedo, direct 12v DC will blow them?.. Or I could have heated grips..
@johnchideya7912 Жыл бұрын
What is the purpose of this
@dogcreek-customs5168 Жыл бұрын
Hmm, wondering about that sensor you said vacuum or pressure if you could make lets say a dog watering bowl that gets low the pressure somehow activates the sensor refilling the bowl with water, etc
@dogcreek-customs5168 Жыл бұрын
Pressurize a 2 liter bottle when the pressure drops it will activate the switch and fill the bottle back up. hmmm might even work for a fish tank or something with any type of pressure?
@dogcreek-customs5168 Жыл бұрын
You're accuring quite a few of them just like me. I am thinking about going around and make all my battery operated items that uses normal batts and make all the devices rechargeable. since I can't figure out what to do with the sensors
@biilal2 жыл бұрын
Hey man what is this vape exactly called as? Plz leme knw ❤️
@JohnniePokemonNj11 ай бұрын
Make a battery back up to charge your phone or other devices on the go with enough of them you can make a super long lasting phone I made a power station to charge it power laptop or such out of laptop batteries
@Sam_HoltАй бұрын
Measure twice. Cut once.
@davey2k126 ай бұрын
Ya no you can blow the sensor 😂😂😂
@earlfuller6474 Жыл бұрын
I like to take the tubes put the battery a charger board and a small led with a small switch to make small rechargeable flashlights
@jessieprough3090 Жыл бұрын
I'm trying to mm figure out the right configuration for exactly that on my rc car,can you send an example pic
@earlfuller6474 Жыл бұрын
@@jessieprough3090 what kind of vape/cart are ya working with
@earlfuller6474 Жыл бұрын
@@jessieprough3090 and what scale is the rc
@earlfuller6474 Жыл бұрын
@@jessieprough3090 the biggest thing is to take it apart without breaking any connections so that it will charge like normal then just solder longer wires off the positive and negative and run them outside the casing solder a switch to either wire find your leds polarity and solder it to the switch and the other wire accordingly that way you can switch it on and off but still charge from the original port
@jessieprough3090 Жыл бұрын
@Earl Fuller 1/10 scale but just doing an external light source kinda like your flashlight deal just extending to a couple leds
@dogcreek-customs5168 Жыл бұрын
You're huffin on that sensor like you're going to get anything watching the vapor disapate because the tube acts as a vacuum chamber which allows the mist to travel towards the draw so sucking on that sensor trying to blow out vapor isn't going to work my friend, I did the same thing and just noticed it watching ur video. lol
@VirtuelleWeltenMitKhan Жыл бұрын
Or .... you relaod and refill them and vape for more.