The end of lightning is nigh, possibly.
19 minutes ago, Phill104 said:Not calling you a liar in any way old bean. The lies comment was referring to those sellers on many an online outlet that tell you their cell, power bank or whatever has massively more power than is even possible. Some people even believe it.
So what you are saying there is that no cell should be reused. Seriously bad for the environment that. There really are many companies around the world making perfectly good devices from used cells. Stuff in the consumer arena that passes all EU safety tests and as such is sold into the market. There is also more industrial stuff such as home power walls, rapid car chargers, even those easy start units for starting a car with a flat battery can use old cells. There are many products out there that are excellent.
Bad, conman electronics are just that whether they contain a battery or not. Don’t pick on just one of them, they all need stopping whatever the tech. Fake gear is often bad in so many ways including how those that actually make it are treated. That is what the EU should be stomping on.
I’m not saying that. I’m saying they should be correctly marked. A high end cell, lest say an LG h2 brown (a real one, many are counterfeits) can be used down to the point where it doesn’t provide service the way a user wants, so it gets recycled. That LG H2 brown may be part of some battery pack for let’s say randomly a cordless drill. One could go through each of the maybe up to fifteen batteries in that battery pack and find some in pretty good shape. They’ll make fine batteries for an electric bike or something, but telling someone it’s a fresh LG2 brown that still has a thousand cycles at 2000mah capacity with a drain of 20ma is simply not true. It’s got a testable mah capacity that is going to go down. It’s got safe ma drain rate of who-the-hell-knows. That can be worked with. Call the safe drain rate maybe 10, which is fine for an electric bike, and check the mah capacity occasionally.
Not so much with an e-cigarette, but with other things.
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