Recycling the dna board from an old lostvape

[bombastinator]

So I’vethe carcass of this old dual battery squonker by lostvape that had a dnaC board in it. I,ve also got a capo squonker with no temp control at all. Im thinking about pulling the board for the lostvape and stuffing it in the capo. It may not be wise to even initiate though. Opinions?

 

[SupplyDaddy]

If you can get it to fit, try it.

I'm at the point where I will "repurpose" any board I have, and I have many.

 

[bombastinator]

Whee*. You have a point. Theres little to lose. The patient only cost five bucks and the donor is dead. I might even make room if there isn’t enough just to see how it goes. This could get ugly, as the saying goes..

It’s hammer time!
I’ve even got a pair of those ridiculous pants.

 

[SupplyDaddy]

"Repurposed" Kanger Tech board, parallel 1200 Lipo's (30C).

It's slopped together, could trim up the wires, but it works.
I've got a dna 75 I need to put back together, having just gotten a replacement screen, a dna 250 that I can't find a small enough Lipo for so I need to make a new housing for it, And dozens of Drag models that the housings have cracked, or battery compartments have fallen off of.

Years of play in them all.

 

[SupplyDaddy]

You keep your juice in a water bottle

Actually, Yes. Although the "juice" you see, is orange juice, not eliquid.
There are five each 100ml squeeze bottles on my desk, three each 500ml laboratory bottles and two each one liter lab bottles on my nightstand, all in various stages of full of eliquid.

 

[bombastinator]

So im SOL. The drone board is radically larger. Its not big, but the capo pcb is tiny. I am thinking of putting magsafe on the side of the capo though

 

[yoshi.poshi]

So im SOL. The drone board is radically larger. Its not big, but the capo pcb is tiny. I am thinking of putting magsafe on the side of the capo though

I’m actually in an inverse situation. You’re taking a DNA board out of a LostVape and recycling it. My LostVape Centaurus Quest died and I’m working on working on getting around to putting a DNA board into it. And also a squonker.

I’ve gotten as far as stripping out the old board, dremeling out the board sled, getting the buttons to all line up right and feel like they’re going to click reliably. But the board - similar situation - is too large. In my case it’s not drastic - some capacitor on the back is a touch too thick on the DNA.

What I’ve done is order some water tight speaker gasket about 2mm thick and that seems like it’s going to do the trick for now. Ultimately I’d like to 3d print a new enclosure but that’s a whole separate skill I need to learn - no experience with CAD at all, but one day…

Right now only thing holding me back from finishing up my project is I need to order larger screws to accommodate the new gap being created by the speaker gasket. But I’ll get around to it. Believe they are just generic M4 screws.

 

[bombastinator]

The hard bit with 3d printing is getting the pronter to work. The CAD is comparatively easy. The preferred program thes days is browser basex and free, which helps alot. Autocad was expensive.