Anyone ever consider this?

[chrisl317]

A small hand held crank generator for field charging and operation? You see them on some of these battery-less radios. Or how about a mod made out of one of those shake and bake flashlights? I was just pondering what would happen if I was in the middle of nowhere without a power source and no analogs to fall back on.

 

[warp1900]

Yes Chrisl, there have been several posts about those flashlights, no one has modded one ...yet, but it is because the general conclusion is it would be useless for our purpose. (not enough power)



"I was just pondering what would happen if I was in the middle of nowhere without a power source and no analogs to fall back on."

That scenario must come form the scariest horror movie ever.

In my 30 years of 2 pack a day smoking and 5 month + vaping, I have never been in such situation, always plan ahead, that is the answer for me.

 

[jeffakamax]

2 fully charged 18650's and I'm good for a week. Not a whole lot of preparation needed there.

 

[MoonMan]

Yes Chrisl, there have been several posts about those flashlights, no one has modded one ...yet, but it is because the general conclusion is it would be useless for our purpose. (not enough power)

Very not true - someone did and they made a video, they modded a crank flashlight.

I don't know where the topic is, but it's here somewhere.

EDIT: Found it

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/modders-forum/13128-cool-mod-people-no-electricity.html

 

[warp1900]

Yes, Saw that video long ago, I don't buy into it so easy though.
I'm always suspicious when not being able to see the inside of it, he might have put an extra battery in there.(not saying he did)

I have one of those with radio, USB out, and it does not provide enough power even if you work on it for 20 minutes. They don't even have a battery to store the generated power, it stores it in capacitors.
I have seen many of knutselpeter's "inventions", and they are interesting, but who came first...the egg or the chicken?
He claims things that I don't have a way to confirm,(I don't understand Dutch or German), like being the one that created the Janty stick and if you see his pics about it, you could probably believe it.
So, did nicowolf make the first battery box mod, or was it him?
Who copied or got "inspiration" from whom?

I just think it is highly suspicious that no one else has made a hand crank mod since it was first shown.
The answer as far as I'm concerned is I don't think you can make it work, but hey, you can always try.



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