Self Charging Mod Idea

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TheHappyWanderer

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I daydream far too much. I came up with this idea for a self charging mod. Instead of a normal battery system there would be some sort of capacitor that gets power from you drawing on it. Let's say there's some sort of turbine that moves when you suck air through it. I'm not sure how the tank would work though because the turbine would need a separate airflow.

Probably impossible in reality, but we can dream can't we? :thumb:
 
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I daydream far too much. I came up with this idea for a self charging mod. Instead of a normal battery system there would be some sort of capacitor that gets power from you drawing on it. Let's say there's some sort of turbine that moves when you suck air through it. I'm not sure how the tank would work though because the turbine would need a separate airflow.

Probably impossible in reality, but we can dream can't we? :thumb:
with current technology it wouldn't be small. Harness the energy of lungs efficiently enough to generate enough voltage and current would be the first hurdle if possible you could conceivably do without a battery
 
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Good to know I'm not the only one who thinks about vaping entirely too much. I'm a massage therapist, so I spend a lot of time in a tiny dark room just letting my hands do their thing while my mind wanders. I think about building, mixing and buying A LOT :laugh:
 

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You would be a multi billionaire if you invented this.
You could apply this to a perpetual motion automobile.
The oil companies would most likely offer you billions, to buyout your patent.
It's not perpetual motion, you have to apply an external force by using the muscles of your diaphragm to move air across the turbine blades to spin them up. There's still a net loss of energy. It'd be no different than those handheld emergency radios that you power up by spinning a crank, and those are in the realm, not just of possibility, but "things that actually exist."
 

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...makes me wonder, though, how many watts can those little emergency radios/flashlights pump out with their little hand cranks? Might be enough for tootle-puffing, and those things aren't that much bigger than some box mods I've seen. Would you put up with the extra bulk, and effort, if it meant you could be free from batteries?
 

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...makes me wonder, though, how many watts can those little emergency radios/flashlights pump out with their little hand cranks? Might be enough for tootle-puffing, and those things aren't that much bigger than some box mods I've seen. Would you put up with the extra bulk, and effort, if it meant you could be free from batteries?
Yea but those hand cranks cannot possibly be the most efficient generators/motors. Another thing is whether or not enough CFM could be generated with suction to provide any turbine with enough energy to move the generator/motor shaft. What would be more plausible is throwing a hand crank on the side (like the flashlights) and building a charge that way, not sure how viable it would be to be 100% battery free and what advantage it might have to solely use capacitors.
 
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