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Discarded Leeds Festival Vapes Help Engineer Power Whole House
Chris Doel built a 2.5 kWh battery from 500 recycled vape cells to power his home for eight hours, highlighting vape waste and promoting reuse.
- Electronics engineer Chris Doel recycled 500 discarded vapes into a 2.5 kWh battery pack and wired it to his home inverter to power his Warwickshire house off-grid for eight hours.
- Inspired by friends who discarded vapes, Chris Doel picked up devices at Leeds Festival and built on a 35 recovered batteries portable charger to attempt a larger project.
- Over six months he extracted rechargeable lithium cells, used a 3D-printed case and soldered a fuse between cells to prevent short circuits, wiring them in parallel and series.
- The video has attracted more than 3.5 million views, he obtained bags containing 2,000 returned vapes from a local vape shop donation, and waste companies report 339 fires this year, Suez said.
- He plans to convert the system to solar so it can recharge constantly or overnight, while Chris Doel uses his YouTube channel to urge regulation reflection as customers treat vapes as disposable and recycling costs persist.
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Engineer Powers Entire Home Using 500 Discarded Vapes–Documented in Fascinating Viral Video
A man has built a rechargeable battery pack big enough to power his whole home using just the batteries from discarded vapes. British engineer Chris Doel thinks it’s “absolutely insane” that people use disposable vaping pens, as they come with a lithium-ion battery that can be recharged again and again; they’re literally powered with a […] The post Engineer Powers Entire Home Using 500 Discarded Vapes–Documented in Fascinating Viral Video appear…
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Express & Star'I powered my entire West Midlands home using 500 discarded vapes. They're not as disposable as we think'
Electronics engineer Chris Doel, 26, stripped the lithium batteries from 500 binned vapes to create a single one large enough to run his entire house electrics for eight hours.
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