I’ve found the remnants of an electronic cigarette on the sidewalk. Now I wonder what that microphone is for. Does it act as a pressure sensor? #ecigarette #electronics
I’ve found the remnants of an electronic cigarette on the sidewalk. Now I wonder what that microphone is for. Does it act as a pressure sensor? #ecigarette #electronics
Continuing the theme of disposable #vapes disguised as beverages, these take the shape of sports water bottles. Each has a USB-C port for recharging the 600mAh #lithiumPolymer battery.
There is an inner shell protecting the battery so it is undamaged despite the case being cracked open by force -- likely stomped on or run over by car. But likely suffered internal damage from a very brutal recharging regime.
Found a Pyne Pod 8500 discarded in the grass during a walk into town yesterday
Surprisingly sophisticated charging circuitry for an item designed to be disposable. No obvious way to open it in order for owners to refill the tank or to swap in a new atomizer module.
So glad I watched Bigclive's teardown video for the new Elfbar 600V2
https://youtu.be/aPm_Sd0fCrA
before attempting to take one of these apart myself
Please boost if you want @EU_Commission to start discussing a #ban of #disposable #ecigarette
#vaping single use e-cig is becoming a real issue among young people, it increases #ewaste and does harm nature by releasing harmful substances.
Haven't seen a single-use #vape device in this form factor before. Found discarded in the grass along the side of a public footpath
Internal #LithiumPolymer battery is rechargeable via USB-C but the tank is not refillable. Still has a voltage of 3.7V
I wonder how many times it was recharged before becoming street #litter
Lipoly battery in this crushed Packman branded vape device was fully charged when I found it in a carpark last night
There is a USB-C port for recharging. The atomizer tank was already missing so cannot tell if it was intended to be refillable. Judging from the vape brand's website it was probably disposable
https://packmanbrand.com/
@birnim
Likewise vapers wouldn't want to put into their mouths something that was touched by a random stranger
https://www.joe.co.uk/news/people-vow-never-to-buy-disposable-vapes-again-after-seeing-how-theyre-created-399966
We need a video of a worker at one of these #vapepen factories wiping his butt with a disposable #ecigarette to go viral
Found all these disposable #Vape devices by just walking into town and back today. Passed by a few that were little more than shattered remains in the road. Even the run overs might still have salvageable electronics -- the pressure sensor can be repurposed as a capacitive touch switch
At this rate I'll easily exceed the number I found last year.
#eCigarette #VapePen #litter #BatteryHarvesting #LithiumPolymer
And now Becky Stern has joined the disposable #vape #lithiumPolymer #battery salvaging club
https://youtu.be/qiUyMLdVyfI
Although she hasn't yet suggested anything about what to do with the pressure sensing (aka capacitive touch) switches.
That pressure sensing capsule found in most disposable #vape pens can very easily be turned into a #touchSensitive switch that is capable of switching currents high enough to activate small relays and solenoids
Simply slice the top off, exposing the edges of the inner and outer conductive cylindrical walls. Bridging the two walls with something no more conductive than human skin is sufficient to trigger it
Look at how small the #lithiumPolymer battery is in relation to the size of the disposable #VapePen
1.48Wh (400mAh 3.7V)
Might be useful should I need to replace another battery in some wireless device, assuming I can recharge it - voltage is reading very low 1.2V
@haritulsidas
Might help if we didn't send perfectly rechargeable #lithium batteries straight to land fill after only one charge
https://news.sky.com/story/millions-of-disposable-vapes-containing-valuable-metal-ending-up-in-landfill-12652211
https://www.itv.com/news/2022-11-14/where-do-disposable-vapes-end-up-when-theyre-thrown-away
#vape #eCigarette #Disposable
Oh no! Free #lithiumPolymer batteries appearing in the wild in Canada too!
https://youtu.be/lidMQu3S2NU
Haven't seen either of those in the UK not even under a different brand name. [pileofstuff] measured 4V on the battery from the rechargeable #eCigarette, 3.3V on the non-rechargeable #VapePen
Data from two longitudinal cohort studies provide evidence that #ecigarette use among early adolescent #smokers in the and
leads to higher risk of smoking
and more frequent tobacco cigarette use later in adolescence https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2023/03/20/tc-2022-057717
I've been finding many more Crystal brand disposable #VapePens discarded on the street this year. They are becoming nearly as frequent as those ELFBAR 600 #vape devices that I found so often last year. #litter #waste #BatteryHarvesting #ecigarette
A rare find outside the gates of a school - disposable vape device with a non-cylindrical battery. Of the 100+ single-use vape pens I've found discarded on the side of streets over the past year, the vast majority had rechargeable cylindrical batteries
Wonder who dropped it. Teacher, parent, or child
Found another Lithium Lampyridea out in the wild -- that is, a rain soaked car park for some corner shops
Found the guts of another vapepen had already been removed.
Both look like they have been stepped on or driven over
Systematic review concludes: there does not appear to be a clear association between #ecigarette flavours and smoking cessation or longer-term e-cigarette use, possibly due to a paucity of data. There is evidence that people using e-cigarettes to #quit #smoking switch between e-cigarette flavours.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/add.16091?campaign=woletoc
Very addicting this #vape device habit of mine.
I cannot seem to stop myself taking apart single-use "disposable" #ecigarette vaping pens that I find discarded in the streets in order to salvage the components, namely the rechargeable #LithiumPolymer batteries that they use, in most cases only once.
Tossed many non-viable ones into the battery recycling bins
And I still have a backlog of 24 more pens to disassemble!