Your remote control is smoking!!!

[asnider123]

My name is Alan and I'm a modoholic.

I can't help myself! I see anything with batteries and say "I wonder if that would make a good battery mod?" I was walking around the house this evening and spotted the TV remote. "Honey, I won't screw it up, I will make it even better!"

I popped open the remote and saw that there was plenty of room for a few extra goodies, so I got out my tools, drilled a couple of holes, soldered the extra stuff in and hot-glued everything in place. I replaced one of the AA batteries with a dummy batt and the other with a 14500.

Results: a remote that not only controls the TV but also gives a pretty good throat hit .. yes,you heard me correctly, the remote still works!!!

I wonder if my wife's electric toothbrush would vape pretty good?

Parts:
510 extension (used it for the connector so it would come out straight)
3mm green LED and 470 ohm resistor
100g tactile switch
A little wire, solder and hot glue and Bob's your uncle

I sure love having a full parts cabinet, never know what you will need at 930 in the evening ...

Before


All wired up and nowhere to go


Pic showing the atty connector, LED and tiny switch


Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh


Help me, I can't control myself!!!

 

[Kingbtheone]

1st in...JESUS your the Macgyver of vaping!

 

[kelleymcm]

sorry you MAY BE beyond HELP !!!
It's WAY COOL though.....

 

[db13berry]

OMG! I want my remote like that!

 

[Dalton63841]

Absolutely awesome. Question is, does the remote still work?

EDIT: NVM, apparently it does! Freakin cool man!

 

[asnider123]

Absolutely awesome. Question is, does the remote still work?

EDIT: NVM, apparently it does! Freakin cool man!

Yah it does Though it's getting 3.7v instead of the 3.0v it was designed for, so I may fry it. Hope not (to keep the peace)

 

[Dalton63841]

Yah it does Though it's getting 3.7v instead of the 3.0v it was designed for, so I may fry it. Hope not (to keep the peace)

I doubt it'll fry it. Remotes are actually quite simplistic, and the parts are usually made to have some give.

If anything the extra voltage would make it so you wouldn't have to replace the battery for a few years, since a remote will work till a battery is just absolutely dead. Then again, it will also be driving an atomizer, so you might have to replace the battery tomorrow.

 

[Critter Man]

If you're crazy, may I join your cult? I'll even vape the kool-aid flavored juice when the comet comes.

 

[asnider123]

I wonder how many batteries you can fit in a Pringles tube?

 

[asdaq]

Alan, you are afflicted indeed. Funny though, in a remote control you had to add another button, hmmm.

 

[asnider123]

Alan, you are afflicted indeed. Funny though, in a remote control you had to add another button, hmmm.

Yes it is ironic adding yet another button

 

[maureengill]

Wow....and I bet your wife couldn't get her hands on the remote before.....now she has no chance... nice mod

 

[TomCatt]

Too dang cool, Alan!!! You got the modumust fever bad, better check in at the 'Dear Gummy' thread

 

[Worldgod]

Funny though, in a remote control you had to add another button, hmmm.

I lol'd real good there...tyvm

 

[brewsterfrank]

love it alan. my second mod was an old dvd remote. i have since canabalized it along with my first mod though. the first was an old needle type voltage tester, i needed the analog size box, felt like i was missing something without a pack of cigs. i way over that now thankfully.

 

[Lorizgal]

Love it Alan, but if I had a remote like that; my family would never get the remote out of my hands..............AH ha that's the way to make them think and remember that I am the one who NEEDS the remote.

 

[mjkjr]

Ever since recently completing my first DIY mod from an old small Black & Decker I've been looking at/for various things I can use. You've inspired me, you're definitely thinking outside the 'box' (cheesy pun intended).