Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June

jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• MrPoletki@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  not smoke/vape related… but I remember buying a couple of these one shot power banks. Disposable thing, it was in like a pouch rather than a case. I did some googling… it looked a lot like this:

  www.amazon.com/…/B0BGMK7NWV?th=1

  link disclaimer, DO NOT buy this crap

  but it was about 10 years ago, they were like a quid each and I think I saw a basket of them at a market stall or something and I got 2. Anyway, lived in my work rucksack for a very long time, never being needed. I lost one, and the otherone the pouch got a bit damaged, so I thought sod it, lets open it.

  Couldn’t believe it, I was expecting a bunch of alkaline button batteries connected together through a little zener circuit, but no, it was a straight up lithium ion battery.

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  • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It should surprise me, but not as anymore. It must be economies of scale making lithium batteries the cheapest thing to do now.

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