/vape/ - Vape

>>2130
Should probably mention that it's my first "serious" e-cig.
I've had a couple small one's to try it out for a few months and decided to get more into the stuff.

Also, heavely recomend this one, it's a huge improvement as far as I can tell.

You need a legit 18350/18500/18650 charger. Is there a local vape shop seems like something they could carry.

You can also go to any serious electronics shop and just ask for a battery charger that can fit your 18650 and also charge it at a suitable voltage - but there's usually no need to ask about voltage stuff, I think; I've just heard of some isolated cases in which something went wrong with the charger and the batteries became useless.
There's also another way to charge them but I'm not by any means trying to recommend it for you, as you would've already tried if you had the proper knowledge.
So, a younger friend of mine, an amateur of how electronics work and also a soon to be "electrician" didn't like the idea of buying chargers for his vape so he modded one of his old smartphone chargers to charge his 18650.
What he's done, from my point of view was just cut the end which you put into your phone from the micro/mini usb cable (I don't really know the difference but you got it) and split the cables inside the rubber wrap and then just stick them to the + and - poles of the battery. That's as far as my memory goes, maybe I'm wrong, maybe he did something else.
IT'S VERY POSSIBLE THAT I'M JUST AN IDIOT, REALLY, I ASSUME THIS. I've never had any interest in how electrics work, it's just what I think he's done. Somebody please prove or disprove my statements.
In any case, there is a temporary solution for you to charge your battery before buying a real charger.
STAY SAFE, THOUGH.

>>2140
Do not do this. it can make your battery explode if you over charge it.

Get something like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/291214978083

>>2140
I'm an electric engineer (well, a few months and I'll be).
I COULD assemble one, I have the know how.
The point is that I'm pretty sure the odds of me fucking up are quite bad.

Chargers aren't just two wires that connect a transformer into the wall plug.
They have electronic parts that detect when teh battery ahs finished charging and stop doing it before the damn thing explodes/melts.

The electronic ocmponents I ahve are going for another small project (a miniature robot arm) and I'd really, REALLY want a long-term alternative. Something with quality.

>>2142
>>2136
Thanks for the sugestions. I searched electronic stores (even the chinese stores) and there's nothing like that here. I don't think I've ever saw one of these batteries in my country before.

There's a few national vaping shops, but they're very far away from me. The local one doesn't stock on it since most people stick with USB chargers.

I can order one… but I'd rather not get into trouble with my parents, since I got live with them for the next 6 months.
Anyway to order something online and have it stay at the post office so I can pick it up later?

Might wanna start ordering liquids too from the net, since my government just applied a 200% tax on liquids.

>>2143
Also, in case some other eletronics amateur stumbles into the thread:
The mentioned batteries are Lithium based.
I have yet to read up on them, but I do know that they don't charge or don't operate quite like the one's I use on other applications (UPS and shit like that).

If anyone wants to google "how to build charger", go ahead, but google "Lithium batteries charging" too since I'm pretty sure it's got some nuances to it.

For one, these batteries explode. The others… melt. Kinda. They're kinky like that.

>>2143
I have a Nitecore D-4 charger. It looks like battery charger, why would your parents have a problem with it? It charges AA and AAA too so really it should fly under any radar.

>>2147
Thanks found a cheap chinese one, kinda weird. To adapt to the 18350 it had a sort of screw that you put between the spring and the battery. Works like a charm.

>why would your parents have a problem with it?
Dunno if anyone is in a situation like me but imagine this:
You live with your parents. Your grandfather died with pulmunar cancer (he smoked a brand that was known to add extra tar so it produced more smoke).
Now couple that with the "vaping = smoking, you're still getting cancer" most people got going on.

I mean, I tried reasoning with them once but, reasoning with a friend is one thing. They'll actually listen and try to 'get' your point of view. Parents? No man. Never. I'm 25 years old and my parents never accept anything I say. Even if it's within my expertise (electrical engineering).

Granted, my father is a Physics teacher, and he knows a lot of shit, even within electric stuff. But come on, give me a break. If I say that a power plug is fucked with only half the tension because you guys fucked the ground connection, it ITS because of that.

>>2284
>25 years old and my parents never accept anything I say. Even if it's within my expertise

I hear you there. I have a biology undergrad and work in a cytology lab.


Dr. Oz, the local news, tabloids, hell even the neighbors apparently know better than I do about everything. YET, they'll still ask me about things so they can completely ignore my advice.