Powering an E-Bike using Disposable Vape Batteries
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I'm surprised that vape batteries allow for such a high amperage draw. I know that with flashlights, you absolutely need high AMP batteries to avoid trouble.
It's nice to see that he did the research to find the draw for those cells, and checked the cell health for each. Very cool.
They have to be pretty high amp, since vapes are just resistive heaters. Usually they're 12-30 wats, on a 3.7v cell you'd need 8-10 amps or about 4C on the 1.5ah batteries in the video
The YouTuber BigClive observed through dismantling many so-called disposable vape pens that they tend to have new, high quality, high amp cells, paired with decent or good charge controllers. He posited that this is to prevent them from going bang in people's faces, which would be quite bad.
Around my area, I still find discarded vape pens in bike lanes or road shoulders, so I'm continuing to collect them. Although I never imagined stringing them together into a battery pack for an ebike haha
That's pretty frustrating... that these are made to be disposable, but the majority of the components (apparently, good quality components!) aren't even reclaimed.
Why aren't these sold with a $200 deposit, so the user MUST return them or be SOL?
I'm surprised that vape batteries allow for such a high amperage draw. I know that with flashlights, you absolutely need high AMP batteries to avoid trouble.
It's nice to see that he did the research to find the draw for those cells, and checked the cell health for each. Very cool.
They have to be pretty high amp, since vapes are just resistive heaters. Usually they're 12-30 wats, on a 3.7v cell you'd need 8-10 amps or about 4C on the 1.5ah batteries in the video
The YouTuber BigClive observed through dismantling many so-called disposable vape pens that they tend to have new, high quality, high amp cells, paired with decent or good charge controllers. He posited that this is to prevent them from going bang in people's faces, which would be quite bad.
Around my area, I still find discarded vape pens in bike lanes or road shoulders, so I'm continuing to collect them. Although I never imagined stringing them together into a battery pack for an ebike haha
That's pretty frustrating... that these are made to be disposable, but the majority of the components (apparently, good quality components!) aren't even reclaimed.
Why aren't these sold with a $200 deposit, so the user MUST return them or be SOL?