How do you charge an e-cig without electricity?

[Iffy]

The most susceptible devices will be micro circuits, even unplugged or without batteries installed.

Some 'discrete component' devices might survive if not near the EMP source. But even those are vulnerable if they have capacitors or inductors (which most do). I could tell ya more, but then someone would have to shoot me...

This is from memory (which my bride does not trust, so...) based upon my time in USAF Electronic Warfare field back in the '60s/'70s/'80s. And no, I did not stay in a Holiday Inn last night.

By the way, who still has a mechanical clock? Not that you would need due to the chaos!

 

[DaveP]

Anything with a silicon junction will fry during an EMP. Solar cells, the MOSFET in your ecig, power plants (electronic controls) unless they are hardened, will go down. All ecig batts have protection circuits ... a little circuit board. Juice heated in a tiny spoon with a Bic lighter would work.

It will most likely be difficult to figure out these things when our brains are fried from radiation. Food will be irradiated and deadly. Underground storage is the key (think 1960 bomb shelters.).

 

[Iffy]

Food will be irradiated and deadly.

Have to respectfully disagree. We're talkin' about EMP, not deadly radiation.

 

[mooreted]

The food would be irradiated and deadly from the nuclear retaliation against those that EMP'd us.

 

[Allan.GH]

I don't really understand what the problem is. After all, the EMP will either take out all e-cigs, or more likely, will cause a zombie apocalypse. We all know that zombies are stooopid. So.....

They will leave their eGos lying around everywhere. Look... I count at least 7 right here:

You don't have to charge them (at least in the short term). Just pick them up.

...and follow the CDCs recommendations about what to do during a zombie apocalypse.

The food would be irradiated and deadly from the nuclear retaliation against those that EMP'd us.

Actually, it'll be non-radioactive, but probably bacteriologically sterile. Many foods are irradiated to kill the bacteria in them, to increase shelf life, and you've probably eaten lots of it without ever knowing it. The safest food to eat would most likely be the surviving food closest to the nuclear detonation which produced the EMP.

 

[Allan.GH]

To those that have not read all the posts: Your chargers and solar devices will not survive an EMP!

EMPs are seriously over emphasized in their ability to fry electronics. Items stored in a metal cabinet would survive an EMP from a device distant enough not to destroy the cabinet. I keep a host of electronics and spare devices in a lockable metal cabinet in the garage anyway (just as a good storage place), so it just occurred to me that I'll still have my hobbies to keep me amused while the world falls back into the dark ages.

With my luck I'd be a mutant, and I'd only have to hold my finger on the end of the atty.

That, or you'd come out looking like Dr. Lazarus, and have to re-design the drip-tip to fit.

 

[Twisty]

The most susceptible devices will be micro circuits, even unplugged or without batteries installed.

Some 'discrete component' devices might survive if not near the EMP source. But even those are vulnerable if they have capacitors or inductors (which most do). I could tell ya more, but then someone would have to shoot me...

This is from memory (which my bride does not trust, so...) based upon my time in USAF Electronic Warfare field back in the '60s/'70s/'80s. And no, I did not stay in a Holiday Inn last night.

By the way, who still has a mechanical clock? Not that you would need due to the chaos!

I still have a wind up timex pocket watch. I haven't used it in a decade or three but it still might work.

 

[FantWriter]

Going back a step -- a recent discovery is that a standard potato battery will deliver far greater power if the potatoes are boiled first (600mV vs. 250mV at 1K ohms).

The MOSFET in a standard e-cig (501,808) is protected from EMP by the tube. No one has yet, to my knowledge, developed a way to enhance an EMP to the point where it will fry electronics in metal cases without blast effects physically damaging it.

 

[Semiretired]

Going back a step -- a recent discovery is that a standard potato battery will deliver far greater power if the potatoes are boiled first (600mV vs. 250mV at 1K ohms).

So, potatoes will be a valuable commodity. I will have to add a few to my stash in that case (lol)...

 

[brittanyNI]

All of my e-cig batteries would be fried because they all contain microcircuits of one sort or another. So I need not worry about recharging them.

I would take all the magnets out of all the motors I could find, and use the axle and wheel rotor off a dead car and the plentiful copper wire around to make a generator. Then I would put some blades on it, and put it up on the air.

I'd make my own atomizers by carefully breaking the glass envelopes on incandescent light bulbs. I'd use the clothing of those I killed while they were trying to raid my garden as cartridge batting and only vape when the wind blew. LOL

In all seriousness, in that eventuality, I'd run out of e-liquid eventually. Yes? And I couldn't go online and order any. But, it just so happens that I grow tobacco in a corner of my garden. I'd probably stop using nicotine, and make a fortune by curing my tobacco and selling it to others in exchange for bullets, bombs or anything else I happened to need.

But my most important asset would be my husband. He has far greater physical strength, excellent ingenuity and is a slightly better shot with a high powered rifle. Sometime I anticipate recoil and my shots fly high and to the right, but I'm working on it.

 

[John Phoenix]

Going back a step -- a recent discovery is that a standard potato battery will deliver far greater power if the potatoes are boiled first (600mV vs. 250mV at 1K ohms).

The MOSFET in a standard e-cig (501,808) is protected from EMP by the tube. No one has yet, to my knowledge, developed a way to enhance an EMP to the point where it will fry electronics in metal cases without blast effects physically damaging it.

I understand there are two types of EMP's, one that throws out uwave radiation as in a blast by a nuke or EMP bomb can be shielded with a metal box but only if it's grounded and the contents are not touching the inside of the box. The other an EMP from an intense focused magnetic field will cut right through the metal box ( or in this case e-cig metal tube) and fry anything inside.

 

[Iffy]

Items stored in a metal cabinet would survive an EMP from a device distant enough not to destroy the cabinet.

Well, don't call me when it's all fried! Oh... wait... yeah... that's right...ya won't be able to...

Just funnin' wid ya!

 

[base234]

Sometime I anticipate recoil and my shots fly high and to the right, but I'm working on it.

Don't worry about it. You're just flinching and jerking the trigger. Next practice, try exhaling sloooowly through your mouth while squeeeeeezing the trigger. That technique has fixed a lot of flinches. You should always be a little surprised at the exact point the trigger breaks. You're still going to have to take the recoil unless you (sorry, I HATE to mention this) downsize to a smaller caliber rifle you are more comfortable with and therefore more accurate with. While you're feeling that recoil...listen...that's the sound of freedom.

 

[Allan.GH]

Well, don't call me when it's all fried! Oh... wait... yeah... that's right...ya won't be able to...

Get yourself a can and some waxed string....we'll talk.

 

[Bardolf Blaze]

This is too easy. To charge your e-cig in a post-apocalyptic world...build a hand crank generator.

Troubled Times: Hand Crank

 

[eyebedam]

In that world. I'm going to a herbal & possible powder solution. The heck with vaping. I would no longer have a job & it would be a urban survival enviroment.

 

[base234]

This is too easy. To charge your e-cig in a post-apocalyptic world...build a hand crank generator.

Troubled Times: Hand Crank

You would have a 50/50 chance with an unknown drill. Your multimeter would not work after an EMP.

 

[Allan.GH]

This is too easy. To charge your e-cig in a post-apocalyptic world...build a hand crank generator.

Troubled Times: Hand Crank

Hmmmm....we have two antique telephones (one of them the old candlestick & crank box, and the other the on-the-wall type) sitting around the house, and the crank-generators work perfectly. I'll have to reconsider my earlier plan of consigning them out. Into the zombie apocalypse survival gear locker they go.

 

[Bardolf Blaze]

You would have a 50/50 chance with an unknown drill. Your multimeter would not work after an EMP.

Actually, in more detail it is about a wire coil with a magnet being spun inside it and there are calculations to get specific voltages and amps. Good old mathmatics!

 

[Bardolf Blaze]

And you can just build your own batteries after your left-over batteries die...
Battery Builder's Guide by Phillip Hurley