Recycling discarded vape batteries 

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Hardly , he doesn't have a clue what to do with all the batteries .

I did same, collected any see on path, got about 30 ,looked here finally to see what I can do before ridding them as too many now..and find both can't do f all with them and 2 they dangerous , why remove that Chip that's on them if u going to fit a other...why not just leave the one on it..think I'm just gonna bin mine.

Thank you for your comment as many people are of your opionion I have changed the video description to "My video "Discarded disposable vapes electronics including charging." shows how the pressure sensor in the vapes I have found contains a chip (with suppliers details and data sheet) which I used to control charging lithium cells."

@@toyhacker4647 am off to take a looky at thse vids. thanks :)

I wish I could find a use, I found another 10 discarded on the streets last weekend. Hope you manage to kick the habit.

@@toyhacker4647 Thank you my friend. 1 week without cigarettes and on the 16th of July i'll be 3 months clear off weed after smoking both for 10 years. I'm 28 now, hopefully i can continue without both of them. I've subscribed to your channel, i'll love to watch a video if you find a use for these batteries!

@@mBaggins we only live once ..whilst the fags I'd agree with, if the weed isn't effecting Ur mental health then why stop..unless of course u want to .

You can make a larger battery by making a bank out of them, so long as you can set it up so that each battery either has it's own charge circuit or can be charged separately. If you get the rechargeable disposable type they come with their own USB-C charge circuit that can be wired in parallel to your charger, and I'm pretty sure there's a million options for little charge and protection circuits and such on ebay. The biggest thing is making sure each battery is maintained at the same voltage or bad things can happen. And as to uses, I've used them individually for many purposes, I recently used one in a small gas combustion pistol (oxy/acetylene) to power the igniter, then another in a wireless model rocket igniter to power the transmitter. I'm saving up batteries right now from a particular brand of vape (Flume I think? Something like that) that I get regularly from my brother and his friend who use them, they have a larger than usual 1000mAh capacity, I'm making a 400 Volt battery to charge a capacitor bank by wiring roughly 100 of them in series lol, talk about dangerous😅

Glad the video has been some use.

You need a 13s battery management board which measures the voltage of each cell please don't attempt this without one I have never gone above 12V but I think the principle is the same. 13 cells connected in series are needed for 48 volts. There are lots of videos on you tube of people building 48V batteries but they tend to use high capacity 18650 cells for bikes and scooters.

huh? a vague question. typically they wont be discharged beyond 3v. as for durability and life expectancy.. with lithium cells. 500 charges is usually the maximum with degrding performance. optimised perhaps 250 charge/discharge cycles

Best way is to use a commercial charger but I don't know of one for these cells.. As the cell is 850mAh called C) the best rate is to charge at 1/10 C i.e. 85 mA. I would use a 4056 charger board available from e-bay a 10kOhm resistor on the charge pin should give a safe current . There are lots of videos showing how to use these on RU-vid. The electronics in the vape cell protect s it from over charge and discharge so if you are not using the cell with the vape sensor the cell should have added protection

I use them also but there's not really a proper way to dispose of them unless you're doing what he's doing or use them for lights or something. Thanks for commenting though 😌

I think 0.28v is too low and that even if you charge it it won't hold its charge. How did it get so low? It should have protection system to stop it going below 2v8 or so. I have given up on any cell below 2v8 as they don't seem to hold their charge. Sorry 😔.

@@toyhacker4647 I had 3 lipo 500mah battery with nearly 0.2v and I got 9 so I had 5 vape batteries with 2.8v no problem and the 3 cells with 0.28v 2 of 3 did work no problem but the 1cells hold at least 66% of rated capacity and the other 2cell has capacity of 660 mah I have this cell I am currently trying to charge up cell 3 but it's got higher resistance because it gets warm when changed with anything over 300ma I got it slowly getting better I can get it up in voltage faster if I use higher current that 17ma it would be better to put more energy into low cell I am trying to put numbers how many nearly very low cells you can make work again

@@toyhacker4647 I found various vapes and found 7 500mah cells and 2 550mah cells and one big 1500mah cell so I was trying to make power bank for DIY project with them to boost/ step down voltages

I haven't bought any in a while. It depends on the type of battery you wish to make and the types of cells (batteries) you wish to use.. If just a single cell (3V7) then 1s bms (battery management system brings up many results I get 10pcs from china on ebay e.g. 10pcs3.7V 3A BMS at £3.31.

Thanks for the comment. Hope the video was some use.

Lithium-ion batteries

Sorry didn't finish I thing the cells in reusable vapes are Li-ion 18650 cells but Li-ion are used in disposable vapes.

@@toyhacker4647 how do you tell the difference? I have some pe112245 3.7v cells out of breeze disposables that I'd like to play with, but I want to be sure I'm using the right charge profile. Couldn't find any real info on them, they don't seem to be for sale anywhere.

I discuss this in my second video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bnaSKrXBhI4.html

Yes I charge using a lithium charger and then measure their capacity and recharge before use not as vapes! They are all pretty close to their stated capacity.

Thanks but I've got so many l don't know what to do with them. Got another today. Just put them in a box for now, thought I'd build a store for my solar but would need 100 5W for a half kilowatthour which could save about 20p! Don't think I'll bother. 😊 building one.

@@toyhacker4647 alright no worries I'll probably take them apart and recycle them accordingly 🙂

@@toyhacker4647 take them to bits and recycle what you can, that's what I've done