LED fairy lights get disposable vape batteries & Type-C charging

[@howardosborne8647]

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]

Square ones too..😊

[@greywolf2809]

Do you just crimp them?

[@soulshinobi]

I can't express the anticipation in the first 10 seconds waiting for your beautifully unique voice to start

[@LinusJohansson-yu7cy]

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.

[@Darieee]

gaaaah 🫠, I've waited so long for this thanks for sharing !!!

[@gadgetsandgizmos9208]

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]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@vexy1987]

Do you add optics to that, or is this super rudimentary?

[@gadgetsandgizmos9208]

@@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]

I thought I was going to watch a Big Clive Video, Subbed! \o/ another street lithium recycler!

[@Darieee]

ayee - thanks ❤

[@suncoastwoodturners5818]

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.😀

[@vexy1987]

The good news is li-ion cells are super efficient.

[@Darieee]

yeah dude - try playing with them charger discharge a few times you'll see how his mistake looks like in reality

[@ivibivivgig6425]

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?

[@Darieee]

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]

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

[@soulshinobi]

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

[@tehpunisher4568]

Wait so they make these single use vapes? And they put perfectly good li ion batteries?

[@soulshinobi]

Yep.

[@tehpunisher4568]

@@soulshinobi how wasteful

[@soulshinobi]

It's disgustingly wasteful

[@brendanrandle]

on the plus side rechargeable lithium batteries contain far less lithium than lithium primary cells

[@Darieee]

true but .. still ..

[@tikaanipippin]

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.

[@kimberlynolz5725]

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]

7:33 ICONIC LOL

[@jonathaningram4672]

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.

[@patrickmckowen1154]

Build spy gadgets that still work as vapes. That could definitely make use of the spare parts.

[@soulshinobi]

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.

[@Darieee]

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

[@davidfalconer8913]

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]

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]

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]

This is the funniest most serious video I ever seen 🤓

[@ericklein5097]

Whats your charge and discharge rate? I can't 'find datasheets for these

[@ericklein5097]

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.

[@jonathaningram4672]

Didn't big Clive add a 1k resister inline?

[@Darieee]

where exactly 🧐 ?

[@jonathaningram4672]

He put it on one side of the cable, reducing the brightness of all lights and apparently will run for days.

[@jonathaningram4672]

@@Darieee Here is the link to the video kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWi7c2l6bNZsaMk

[@jonathaningram4672]

@@Darieee I got the value wrong it's 33 ohms resistor but I knew he put one inline.

[@howardosborne8647]

@@jonathaningram4672 I saw that video. Big clive is the main man for modding this sort of stuff safely.

[@mr.zyclonic1463]

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!

[@Darieee]

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.zyclonic1463]

@@Darieee Ok, ty

[@markletts8802]

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]

What is the purpose of this

[@dogcreek-customs5168]

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]

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]

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

[@biilal]

Hey man what is this vape exactly called as? Plz leme knw ❤️

[@JohnniePokemonNj]

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_Holt]

Measure twice. Cut once.

[@davey2k12]

Ya no you can blow the sensor 😂😂😂

[@earlfuller6474]

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]

I'm trying to mm figure out the right configuration for exactly that on my rc car,can you send an example pic

[@earlfuller6474]

@@jessieprough3090 what kind of vape/cart are ya working with

[@earlfuller6474]

@@jessieprough3090 and what scale is the rc

[@earlfuller6474]

@@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]

@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]

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]

Or .... you relaod and refill them and vape for more.

[@veracity91]

You are a different type of person lol

[@gabormihaly667]

7:35 🤣🤣 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮😨 🤣🤣🤣😂😂