Anyone take a stab a building a crank mod?

[Fodder4U]

I am not a e-cig modder yet. Was curious if anyone has tried to incorperate a crank generator (like off those flashlights and radios) into a battery mod for charging. Is it even practical? I go camping a lot so I thought it might be something useful. Thoughts?

 

[ProfessorDaffy]

I am not a e-cig modder yet. Was curious if anyone has tried to incorperate a crank generator (like off those flashlights and radios) into a battery mod for charging. Is it even practical? I go camping a lot so I thought it might be something useful. Thoughts?

I actually had the same though when using a hand cranked flashlight. It surely didn't put out a lot of light so I dismissed the idea. Besides, if you have to crank it all the time, how are you going to explain to your friends and family that one arm has more muscular developement than the other!

--Prof Daffy

 

[Fodder4U]

Besides, if you have to crank it all the time, how are you going to explain to your friends and family that one arm has more muscular developement than the other!

--Prof Daffy

LOL Daffy.

 

[Rhetoric Camel]

I think there was a thread about this... I also questions making a mod in the style of the flashlights with the magnets that you shake to get power from... Don't know if this stuff would actually work or if anyone is working on either of these or how much of a pain in the ... it would be compared to just upgrading to stronger batteries and changing them out daily.

 

[Dave Rickey]

The problem is that we need 5 watts of power, minimum. The hand-crank generators you see on flashlights and radios at Walmart are putting out less than a watt. For an eCig, you'd need something like this.

Maybe you could come up with something where you cranked for a minute, took a puff, cranked for a minute.... Much easier to build something around a solar-recharging USB backup system (or just use them as-is with a passthrough), can get them for $20-30 bucks through Deal Extreme.

--Dave