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  1. Haven't seen a single-use device in this form factor before. Found discarded in the grass along the side of a public footpath

    Internal 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

  2. 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
    packmanbrand.com/

  3. Vapers on Reddit noticed the blatant in Elfbar and Lost Mary disposable months ago

    I wonder if this why I have been finding more discarded Crystal brands than Elfbars recently

  4. Found all these disposable 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.

  5. Look at how small the battery is in relation to the size of the disposable
    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

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    Didn't see any #VapePens over Easter vacation then suddenly found 7 in the last few days. Is it because their users (kids and parents) have returned from holidays? Or is it coincidental? - the council has just cut the grass where some of these might have been hiding.

    #vape #eCigarette #litter #BatteryHarvesting

  7. I've been finding many more Crystal brand disposable discarded on the street this year. They are becoming nearly as frequent as those ELFBAR 600 devices that I found so often last year.

  8. Very addicting this device habit of mine.

    I cannot seem to stop myself taking apart single-use "disposable" vaping pens that I find discarded in the streets in order to salvage the components, namely the rechargeable 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!

  9. I have salvaged so many lithium batteries from the streets around me that I need to make specially designed storage solutions for them