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Yes, it sounds like the battery is going to need a replacement. Everything seems to point to the battery not having capacity, likely because one or more faulty cells are not charging and this signals the BMS to shut things down. Unfortunately a replacement battery is $200 for a scooter that cost $350. If I could buy a 3rd-party battery I would, but I'm not sure what quality it would have, whether it would be compatible, if it would have any warranty, and if it would really be any cheaper!
They don't make systems like this anymore. Sadly people are trashing them for basically no reason so I'm happy to put them to good use! Over 30 years old and functions better than some systems today!
Are you sure you cut the right cables? I would connect back the buzzer and see if it turns on. Maybe when you took your microwave apart you forgot to connect something back?
I would be grateful if those who know about these things would tell me how they work. Specifically I am wondering why I have to pay monthly for the tracking service, and whether it's possible to somehow hack this to switch to a mobile phone I have. This question may seem odd because I'm not even sure how to formulate it, I don't have the necessary understanding of the technology. I am just looking at this and thinking that it communicates with local cell towers, in the same way a mobile phone does. If that is the case, and the company charges a subscription service, then it seems like it's using the same tech as a phone. As one can switch cell providers, I'm wondering if this could be messed with to accept a sim I purchase. Again I apologise for the absolute ignorance of this question. I am only trying to understand how the tech works.
You are asking all the right questions! Yes it appears to be using a local cellular tower data connection, much like cars use for telematics services (On-Star, GPS tracking, etc). Ultimately somebody has to pay for the data carrier and so the company making the tracker needs to pass on that charge to the end-user. You will notice on the "uBlox" package there is an IMEI number which is a unique number identifying each mobile device. No matter what local carrier is used (and it may be hard-locked by Tractive based on region, I don't see a "SIM" or any way to change this), it requires a cell-tower to work. You can't just make it communicate with your phone (and even if you could use some BlueTooth feature, the range is way too short). This is something Tractive would have programmed into the devices and arranged contracts with carriers and costs for data services at the time they engineered this, or perhaps can change on their end, but the user has no way to modify anything.
@@devhackmod I believe you have been very kind and charitable with your reply when dealing with someone who is obviously quite ignorant of these things. To clarify...would someone be able to utilise the hardware and create their own little custom GPS tracker? Or is it somehow locked in a way that only Tractive can use it? Again I apologise for what I assume are grossly ignorant questions. You may have to dumb this down for a biologist (which is what I am).
And the battery pack does actually contain what's known as a management system, BMS which monitors the voltage of each cell within the battery pack and if any of the cells are out of spec the BMS will completely shut its charge input and main out put down.
I have a feeling one or more cells in the battery are toast and this is causing the failure. The power on the scooter is unreliable... charging appears to work but then it fails to output much capacity, voltage drops way too quickly. This is less than 1 year old scooter, it's a shame.
The controller will not necessarily reset each time the battery is shut off, the controller contains a charged capacitor that needs to discharge, and I'm almost certain that the E5 error code has something to do with a connection with one of the hall sensors momentarily disconnecting.
Why deface the top of the car when you can just remove the battery from the unit? Surely that would stop any telematics transmission to cellular towers? Or is it just that they need to do it fast and just don't care? The shark-fin is the antenna but the actual unit can be opened and battery removed fairly quickly too. Why remove the antenna and screw up the top of the car if they already removed the telematics unit?
I don't think so, the entire system storage memory is soldered on-board flash memory or some other kind of persistent-storage RAM chip. It is possible to access and read using special devices, but I can't easily swap it out and read it (or use it on another system) which is what I originally wanted to do.
The cuff usually punctures before the electronic unit ever fails... but they rarely (if at all) sell the cuffs at a price that justifies buying it alone.
if anybody reads this, do not bypass the fuse. If it wasn't needed, the manufacturer/engineers wouldn't have included it. if you're going to replace components, make sure you get the exact same rated parts to replace them with. these machines are designed to run at specific specs and you start going around changing capacitance or resistance ratings, you could further break the machine or hurt yourself
Yes I agree, this is a valid and useful comment. If you are going to work on electronics, read some electronic principles books, basic theory and repair, and know how to operate safely... both in diagnosing and testing, as well as replacing. Even in this video you can see the energy stored in that capacitor that can easily shock you if you don't know what you are doing! And if you don't repair things properly they are a fire and electric shock risk!
🤣No clue! I didn't want a BBQ, wife buys it and expects me to start cooking on it! Since this video was made I've learned and become better but by no means a BBQ expert... I know just enough to feed the family without poisoning them and without blowing myself up. 🤣
Great to see how it works! Mine is malfunctioning. I charge it and the lights come on but the motor starts and stops. I’ll try a different cable but maybe it needs a new battery. The shaver is over $100 here so maybe I can simply put in a new rechargeable battery. Now I know how. Thanks!
@@butterfly95000ify I had no use for this and just recycled it. The battery is soldered in place and you will have to swap it out with another battery that has "pins" on it that you can solder to the main board. Since it is red it looks like this one if you Google search for "HFC1650 16X50MM 1650" which is 3.2V.
Could you possibly post instructions on how you removed the microwave from the cabinet and trim kit? We have a MS24 that failed with food in it, and simply want to buy a new one and reuse trim kit.
The sides of the trim (two large plastic vertical pieces on each side of the microwave) pull out, you just grab and pull, they are stuck in there on some clips. Once you have it out you can see screws underneath that attach the "frame" of the trim to the wooden enclosure. You unscrew those and the entire front trim comes out. Them inside you will see the microwave usually mounted with some large sheet-metal duct thing on top, that redirects the air flow to the front for proper venting. Let me know if this helps.
If it has a IEMI number, it is cellular capable. EDIT: I am looking up the FCC ID number, there is a lot of useful information on their site unbelievably.
And the plot thickens! I took it out for a test run after the fix, ran it around the neighbourhood for 5 minutes and then got up to 25 km/h just before an intersection at which I had to stop. So I slammed on the brakes! Scooter took a bit longer than usual to stop (which I figured was due to my speed and weight). After the stop I looked down at the display and it was off! Dead! Could not power it up again. I took off the display panel (since it is now looser than usual) and nothing I did there worked. So I don't think it had anything to do with that board. Walked home and opened up the bottom, ONLY disconnected the main battery (yellow plug) for a few seconds and connected it again, and the scooter turned on! So seems like a hard reset (complete power disconnect) resets the logic boards in the controller and allows power button to work again. I guessed that maybe it has to do with hard stops using the brake... because it has a brake light on the tail fender, maybe something faulty going on there? Or maybe if detects acceleration and braking at the same time it went into a safety shutdown? Or maybe when the scooter senses that the brake is applied but not slowing down quickly enough, it will also trigger some safety mode where it goes completely dead? Not sure if these scooters have regenerative braking, but if so them perhaps once polarity reverses to the motor to charge up the battery, it is overloading the charging circuit, detects a fault and shuts off? These are all hypotheticals. So in any case, I scootered back and forth along my street, going up to 25 km/h, slamming on the brakes, accelerating, slamming on the brakes, repeatedly for about 5 minutes and could not reproduce the problem! Now the scooter is not shutting off when I put it through these hard cycles. I'm still at a loss to understand what exactly is triggering the failure, but so far a hard reset seems to get it up and running. Therefore, if I cannot solve the problem I may have to put a switch on the side of the scooter that lets me hard-reset the battery (like just serial-connect the battery through the switch) or create an access panel so I can easily get to the battery yellow plug. If this happens while I'm on the road, I can quickly and easily reset the scooter. Otherwise I'm looking at removing and putting back 15 screws each time!
Mine has an odd issue, at times It'll have a long beep and not power on at all. I'll plug the charger in for a few mins and try again and it powers on again. I haven't taken it apart yet, but i'll give it another few days and see if the issue keeps coming up.
@@sykotic77 Let me know what happens. If only I knew 100% for sure it was the battery and that the rest of the scooter was good, I wouldn't feel so bad dropping another $200 on a new battery (the scooter cost $350 total and it's only a year old). However, to spend $200 after 1 year for a new battery that costs more than half the original cost of the scooter seems a bit of a rip-off especially since they are supposed to last a few years at least.
Amazon has these switches, just measure them and make sure they fit. Most are pretty standard size but some are "normal close" and some "normal open" and some have both options because they have 3 leads. You have to match it up! Good luck!
That was a good trade! Use whatever wired headphones you like, the Walkman sounds great! By the way, if yours is as old as mine it's going to need a new belt. I haven't changed mine yet but it has problems going into auto-reverse on it's own and playing. I'm planning to get a new belt soon and make a video on changing it.
Good luck fixing it, a 10-pack of fuses is very cheap, and it'll last you for years (may need to change it out every couple years because it fails again and again).
Exactly what happened to my series 6 about a month ago. And I had it since October 2020. I called Apple support and they asked me for my serial number. But like what’s the point of giving it to them if my watch was bought like four years ago, so definitely warranty was expired. I was nearly going to glue it back on but thought that it was a bad idea in the end. Now I have the series 9 and it works perfectly great.
If you can source an authentic battery for it, you can swap it out and stick the screen back on. The problem is the battery gets swollen and pops the screen off. However, having tried a battery swap already on an Apple Watch I can tell you it is VERY DIFFICULT to disconnect and connect all the cables and screws. They are tiny and the flatflex cables are easy to rip. It can be done but not so easily!
Their advertising specifically mentions the side burner is meant for cooking steaks. they said the heat given off the infrared burner incinerates the juices and therefore leads to little to no drippings.
Sounds yummy! Haven't yet had a chance to try it... seems like I'm mostly cooking hot-dogs, sausages, hamburgers and chicken! NO steaks yet, can you believe it!
I have picked up SW stations from India, Pakistan, South Africa, and Madagascar just using the whip antenna. I live in Erie, PA. In the states. I was talking to a individual who is very knowledgeable of radios and radio signals. He told me in the right conditions it is possible to pick up stations that far away on just your whip antenna. It was between 11.000-13.000 MHZ frequency range I received this on. So you probably was picking up India in good conditions
Yes it's amazing how far these signals travel. Lately with the solar storms it also creates some interesting conditions allowing radio waves to bounce even further, depending on the time of day. I'm using a long-wire antenna as well which really amplifies the signal!
Yes I gather, but why remove it instead of just disconnecting the battery from the module if you already know where it is? They chucked the module and it has a battery so just unplug it and that's it, rather than leave a hole in your roof!
Thanks for the vid! I just received a device that has the same appearance for $15nzd from Temu & am not ready to crack it open/break it to see what the battery size is. That Flawless battery looks to say 750mAh, 3.2v on the wrapper, a shaver battery. Good to know. I wonder if the Temu device uses the same mAh/voltage. It cost me considerably less than what a retail Flawless device would of, and appears to be very similar to the one you've found on your yard/sidewalk.
Good luck, I don't think it matters what the mAh is, as long as the voltage is ok it will operate ok. The issue is charging it, and whether the charge circuitry will have any issues with the battery and where the protection circuit is (sometimes they wrap it up on the end of the battery and sometimes it's part of the circuit board).
Very good video. My father passed down his Paolo Soprani that he got when he was very young (he was born 1952)The reeds need rewaxing but at the same time I got myself another accordion to play as its getting repaired.
Our is stuck on flashing upper and lower draws F1 display and won't turn off and doors wont open at all we have turned it off at the power point and turned the water off.… how do we fix this please
is there a way to get the shows off the old hard drive? Rogers has decommissioned these old boxes to Ignite. I didn't have time to record any videos to a DVR
Just a guess but, the fin is probably the cell phone/wifi antenna, the square, flat, horizontal antenna is for the GPS and the odd, curly antenna is for the am/fm radio.
this was a great video. I've strated using it with my students. The only thing I would add is some sense of triad building to give it some foundations with the tones you are producing. But very straight forward and uplifting for someone just getting started and having quick success.
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