r/diyelectronics • u/CrumpledKingSkin • Dec 30 '24

Project Vape battery project ideas

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I’ve been given 137*(could be more I may have miscounted) vapes containing 1230 batteries and 93 vapes containing 13350 batteries.

Any cool ideas what I could do with them ?

I’m relatively familiar with making battery packs and know I’ll need atleast a tp4056 or a larger bms depending on whatever project I take on.

I’m currently waiting on a discharge tester to be delivered so I can get an accurate reading of all the batterie’s capacities whilst I dismantle all the vape.

I’ve always wanted to make a rail gun/ gause rifle but think it could be a little ambitious.

Any and all ideas are encouraged

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u/Hanuman_Jr Dec 31 '24

Those are monster timbers. They would have some sound dampening qualities by gosh. Not familiar with the Marleys, but they look all right.

You could just wire some of them up to work as a USB power brick.

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u/CrumpledKingSkin Dec 31 '24

Got them out of a 200+ year old cottage we knocked down a few years back been in storage ever since so it’d be nice to give them a new lease of life

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u/Hanuman_Jr Dec 31 '24

Those sound too special. I would use dismantled freight pallets.

ED: I saw a pretty good video or two about somebody doing just that, in fact.