Lmao, I've an android, and I've probably changed a half dozen batteries on my own phones. It's not that hard, and the barriers reagent last more than a few years anyway...
Fair enough lol, my motto is if there is a Will, there is a way. For instance if 8 year old Chinese kids can assemble them, I don’t see why anyone who is mechanically gifted would be hesitant to disassemble, repair and reassemble. No matter what the product is, I actually fixed a $300 TDK Bluetooth speaker my boss gave me for free, worked fine plugged in but needed a new battery pack for wireless playing, after a $20 trip to the hobby store and some soldering the speaker isn’t only fixed but now has a much larger Capacity battery. It pays to tinker 😂
I actually fixed a $300 TDK Bluetooth speaker my boss gave me for free, worked fine plugged in but needed a new battery pack for wireless playing, after a $20 trip to the hobby store and some soldering the speaker isn’t only fixed but now has a much larger Capacity battery.
my only caveat there would be to make sure you know what you're doing when messing around with lipo batteries. They don't like to be overcharged and can catch fire if you do so, which is why most electronics with lithium batteries have an on-board charging circuit to prevent overcharging.
I'm not saying don't do it, just be extremely careful the charging circuit is intact and can handle the extra capacity. =)
Haha good advice, luckily it was just a nihm pack originally so I kept that same battery type. Been in the r/c world since 2002 and have definitely heard some horrible stories about people not having the proper respect for the power of Li-Po lol
indeed... hell, remember the samsung phone a few years back? battery had a faulty charging circuit and they kept starting on fire... one dude actually had the damned thing start on fire in his pocket in a plane, and when he took it out and tossed it on the floor, it actually burned a hole through the plane.
Thank goodness the plane was on the ground and the fuel is (usually) stored in the wings, or that could have been bad...
(sidenote, lithium gets very angry when introduced to water...sometimes even the water vapor in the air can set it off...)
What really scares me is they want to sling a massive bank of lipo cells underneath a car and have people drive around on top of this potential timebomb...
Lmao, I've an android, and I've probably changed a half dozen batteries on my own phones. It's not that hard, and the barriers reagent last more than a few years anyway...
Fair enough lol, my motto is if there is a Will, there is a way. For instance if 8 year old Chinese kids can assemble them, I don’t see why anyone who is mechanically gifted would be hesitant to disassemble, repair and reassemble. No matter what the product is, I actually fixed a $300 TDK Bluetooth speaker my boss gave me for free, worked fine plugged in but needed a new battery pack for wireless playing, after a $20 trip to the hobby store and some soldering the speaker isn’t only fixed but now has a much larger Capacity battery. It pays to tinker 😂
agreed.
my only caveat there would be to make sure you know what you're doing when messing around with lipo batteries. They don't like to be overcharged and can catch fire if you do so, which is why most electronics with lithium batteries have an on-board charging circuit to prevent overcharging.
I'm not saying don't do it, just be extremely careful the charging circuit is intact and can handle the extra capacity. =)
Haha good advice, luckily it was just a nihm pack originally so I kept that same battery type. Been in the r/c world since 2002 and have definitely heard some horrible stories about people not having the proper respect for the power of Li-Po lol
indeed... hell, remember the samsung phone a few years back? battery had a faulty charging circuit and they kept starting on fire... one dude actually had the damned thing start on fire in his pocket in a plane, and when he took it out and tossed it on the floor, it actually burned a hole through the plane.
Thank goodness the plane was on the ground and the fuel is (usually) stored in the wings, or that could have been bad...
(sidenote, lithium gets very angry when introduced to water...sometimes even the water vapor in the air can set it off...)
What really scares me is they want to sling a massive bank of lipo cells underneath a car and have people drive around on top of this potential timebomb...