To those guys who keep having error 13 even after the charger, battery and motherboard were changed try checking the charging pads on the robot itself. One wire desoldered on one of the charging pads on my roborock and I had error 13 even after motherboard change. Upon closer inspection i noticed it desoldered and then when i soldered it back the robot was new again... And this solution is nowhere on the internet i have discovered it by myself :P
How much of the robot did you have to disassemble to access the charging pads? I replaced the motherboard but still am having error 13 issues, so I'm thinking of taking it apart again to check the charging pad connections
I just went for it and took it all apart again. I had to do the entire disassembly and take the motherboard out to be able to see the wires that are soldered to the charging pads. Unfortunately they were in fine shape, so that wasn't my problem. At least it was faster to take apart and put back together the second time!
@@vegarschwartz7863 After disassembling and reassembling twice to no avail, I ended up trying another much simpler recommendation from somewhere in this thread. I took apart the charging dock and bent the metal strips that push up the two charging contacts so that the charging contacts were a little higher. Then when I put the vacuum back on the charger, they were able to get better contact with the charging pads. Took about 5 minutes after hours of other troubleshooting, but it worked like a charm. Let me know if that's not a clear enough description
Thanks for this, I was wondering if I could do that too, once I got the ends of the old fuse to be bare. I was just wondering before I put the whole thing back together.
Thank you so very much!!!! I had been dealing with the error for three months. I'd clean the contacts and it might go a cycle or two before the error would happen again until cleaning contacts did nothing. Not knowing if I could repair it and having never used a soldering iron I purchased a Wyze Lidar robot cleaner while also ordering the chip and a soldering iron a week ago. I followed your fantastic detailed directions and managed to ( barely but securely) solder the replacement on. While your video is blurry it's nothing that cant be overcome especially if I could do it with old eyes and no motherboard soldering repair experience. My soldering work looks horrible but it's effective. I took my time. I had no multi meter to check my work or analyze before beginning. For anyone reading after reassembling MiHome app at first could not see the vacuum and would not load a map. I ended up deleting the app ( and cache and memory) and resetting the S5 as well. After reloading the app and linking into wifi, the S5 found and loaded the old good map. I waited until the battery recharged to 100% and just ran it at Turbo in 5 rooms. After completing It went back to the dock with 78% charge and it's now at 92% and charging. I plan to run it twice a day over the next 7-10 days to be certain the charging issue is gone. Thanks again and your English is fine!
Honestly these roborocks when they function are amazing. I have them for aprox 4 years now and they work autonomosly. Almost no issues getting stuck... They just work and are extremely precise
Thank you so much for the guide! I accidentally damaged the component next to the fuse when I tried to clean up the contact point, totally avoidable mistake. Fortunately I bought a second hand motherboard with a damaged fuse for $3 and redid the process. This time it worked like a charm!
Thank you! Your video was exactly what I needed. You showed every step, and fully explained what you were doing and why. This was a HUGE help. My robot is once again happily vacuuming the house.
Very helpful! Unlike almost everyone else, I got an "error 14, battery malfunction" and the user manual was useless. Replacing the battery didn't help. Your video enabled me to eliminate the charging station as a possible cause, and to disassemble the robot. I decided to swap out the entire motherboard with a replacement from China. This rectified the problem, and saved me hundreds of dollars. Thank you very much.
Bonjour. Merci beaucoup ! Je n'y connais rien en électronique mais votre tutoriel a été salvateur. Grâce à vous, j'ai pu réparer mon appareil. Sans quoi, il aurait fallu le remplacer, et là, pour 0,25 €, il redémarre. Merci à vous pour mon budget et surtout pour la planète. Merci, merci, merci !!!
I got this "error 13" after using my roborock for 11 months. Everytime i got the error i needed to turn it off, wait for 20-30 minutes, then i could charge it for another additional 2-3%, and the robot voiced the error 13 after 3 minutes, and the cycle repeats until i could charge it to 100%. Now that you pointed the problem with the thermistor fuse, i can understand and confirm that the symptom in sync with the behaviour of the fuse. When the temperature rises, the resistance will also rises and the current to the battery might be reduced, and so the error 13 happens. Even if the charging contacts are clean, there is a broken part in the robot that blocks the current to the battery. Super! Herzlichen Dank fuer dein Tutorial. Schoene Gruesse aus Indonesien
This worked for me. It was my first time soldering anything and it failed first time (bad contact) but worked perfectly 2nd time. Taking the old fuse off was by far the hardest part its really hard to budge. Thanks so much for the detailed instructions.
Thank you for the video! It makes me mad, that modern appliances are so hard to disassemble in order just to clean the cooler, but with your video I was able to do it myself.
Englishman in Rosenheim here and your 101's sub. My knowledge of electronics is pretty good but you saved me a lot of time! Your English is fine and thanks for this! Exactly the same problem. Part ordered Vielen Dank & Schöne Grüße Danke
Thanks for the guide. I will be attempting this soon. It’s funny, first my roborock got error 1, apparently a fault with the LiDAR. So I ordered a replacement motor (cheap) but also the LiDAR module (dearer). Motors got here first, and that got it going right away, but as soon as it ran out of charge and went back to the dock, now it gets error 13, so here I am watching your guide. Thanks for sharing!
Just did this to mine, pretty straight forward. Thank you. Also, I've noticed that the motor is running at full speed in Turbo now. Running like new with a new battery changed at 4 years.
Great tutorial! I was about to buy a new motherboard until I saw this video. Went to my local electronics store and bought a fuse and installed it today. My vacuum is now charging and no more error 13 message. Thank you so much.. ..
Thank you. Excellent 😊. Most helpful part was the removal of every screw. I replaced with smd 1.85A 2920 fuse. Remove with two soldering irons, one on each side at 400 degrees C, if you don't have hot tweezers, which I did not have.
Great video. I had the same issue and I was able to change the part by self. The removal of the poly switch was the tricky part. Thank you again for the video.
My robot is 4 months old, it's started to not charge properly sometimes. But not always, 2-3 times a week. I think in the future I will have this problem so thank you from now, I will use your video to repair it.
Wanted to say a BIG THANKS for this video. My S5 had this exact problem and with your video I was able to easily fix my otherwise-useless vacuum. Thank you SO MUCH!
Just wanted to say thank you, as your tips to remove the fuse were priceless. Toughest removal I've made so far of a component, but it's working nicely :)
Great video. Very relaxing. I wanted to find out what I would need to do to take apart my Roborock and this helped a lot. It's nice that they used easily plugged in modules for the side brush, wheels and battery instead of ribbons everywhere. 😅
You can check if it is the fuse by allowing the robot to cool down before putting it back on the charger. These fuses trip due to heat and will trip sooner the hotter they get even without previously tripping. The robot will probably show first signs directly after it cleaned for a bit. The unit will be warm from vacuuming and then stop charging due to an old PTC tripping. Let it cool down for 15 minutes then put it back on. It may now charge or charge longer then before. If charging works then the fuse it not bad enough yet but will probably fail soon. If it stop right away it may be something else.
Danke shoen! This was a very detailed and educational video. Not sure if my husband can do it though. But it certainly makes me appreciate how much work is involved in replacing a little fuse. Now I just need to find a Roborock repairer in Singapore, who is as good as you. And your English is excellent 👍🏻
I want to thank you for your excellent video, that has helped so many. I had the most difficult time trying to remove the damaged resistor and was worried that I would destroy the motherboard but it worked and now my S5 is is charging as we speak.
Thanks a lot for the walk-through! I avoided the pain of removing the original fuse by installing the new one in parallel, which also worked fine :) In other words, after 'cleaning' the original fuse to avoid bad smells, I soldered the new fuse directly on top of the original one.
Hi, even if this works, I suggest to remove the old fuse to stay save. As you now have a kind of unknown current that may get through those fuses. But hey: As it is fixed now, you can be sure, that the fuse was the root cause ;).
Thanks for the video! I ordered F2871CT-ND from Digi-Key and now the machine works great. The original fuse was definitely tricky to de-solder, but I was able to carefully remove one layer at a time. Also, I used alcohol wipes to eventually remove the conformal coating. Thanks again!
Excellent tutorial. Many thanks for this. My little robot is autonomous once more. It's been about 30 years since I soldered anything but this made it easy. :-)
Hi from Colombia, i did exactly u show us and works perfectly. Thank you for post this video. I love my Roborock (we call 🤖 Rosie - The Jetsons), now its working for us.
Awesome video! I switched out my main board as is ordered it and received it before I found this video. (your disassembly instructions are great!) But will be repairing the old one once I get some fuses. Greatly appreciate the effort it took to make this!
Excellent description. It gave me the idea to measure the voltage on the docking station and in my case that was the way for the solution. For me the springs under the charger contact on the docking station were weak. I bended both to make them harder to push down, since I did not see this error. How I found this? :D I wanted to measure the voltage of the docking station output, so I pushed the measuring pins under the springs and the problem did not occur for a week. So I concluded that it must have something to do with the springs, I bended them, since it's OK (while the error came up every day before). Btw I could not completely disassembly my Roborock to remove some dirt from the motor, your video helped to do it.
I've returned after about 2-3 weeks to report that this worked for me. I took off the bottom plate of the charging base, removed the pads and put a bend in the arms to have them apply more force upwards. No errors since doing this.
Instant like when you mentioned MacGyver :D Mine's got the same error, hope it's just the cap in the docking station as I just had the robot disassembled the other day to root it and install Valetudo.
I am about to change fuse on my Roborock S5 but I have conserns about 30V 3A. isn't it too much? I mean charging station can break too and tha vacuum itself can be damaged in that case. But I am not an expert so I want to ask what do you think about it? Why did you choose this exact model of fuse?
Thanks for the great tutorial man. This tutorial helps a lot with my roborock repair, although i soldered the fuse on top of the old fuse tho. Now it's working again. Thanks mate👍
Hey Kevin, just a short reminder, if you bridge the old fuse, you have an unknown level of safety. It is much saver to remove the old one - but I understand bridging is more convenient ;). Anyway - repairing the robot is not only cheaper - it helps to prevent unnecessary trash :). Well done and have a lot of fun with your new old cleaner :-)!
Thanks so much for the detailed walk through. We follow your instructions and successfully repair our own robot! THANK YOU VERY MUCH. You're so cool! The world need people like you. Your English is very well understandable :) cheer up!
Hi. Thank you for the detailed explanation. I am wondering, why are we replacing the 1.85A fuse with the 3A? Is it still safe to use a fuse with a higher amperage rating?
So i am flabbergasted. I replaced my fuse which apparently was fine, checked the battery, checked the base and they all seem damn fine BUT it's still having the error 13... not sure what to do about it.
@Bastelbank Hi, i have Strange error on one S50 - device didnt charge with 20V, and on charging pads, under Roborock, looks like there is short circuit. I've change fuse and remove battery control module but still have nearly 0 ohms on charging pads... Do you have any idea how to fix it?
Hi @bastelbank5855 after i change the PTC fuse, i have another problem that may or may not be related to this and I would like to ask your expertise. My roborock is not charging and the dock always have white light. The dock is 4.1V when not attached to the robot (so it's fine). However when connected to the robot, it starts to drop slowly approaching 0V so I'm sure it's not a contact problem. So it didn't jump to 19V. The battery seems fine as it's in 12.5V. Do you have any idea what went wrong and what could i possibly do?
Thank you so much for this video! I fixed my robot this way and it's been working great (I cheated a bit as just soldered the new fuse over the old one). After working well, today the robot was completely dead. It had parked by itself in the charger yesterday. But today no life. Cannot even do a factory reset. Could it have something to do with the fuse (my bad soldering?) again? Or where should I start looking for faults? Charger shows 4.2 volts.
Hi, sounds like the docking station still good ;-). The voltage on the dock should be somewhere in the area of 18-22V. At least I have seen that voltage leading to a solid charge of the battery =).
Thanks, I thought opening it was more difficult. PTC 30V 3A but which resistance value? In Conrad there are many.
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Awesome video. Just fixed my Roborock following your instructions. I removed the motherboard prior to the soldering part... Just to have more room to work. By te way... Shouldn't we keep a 1.85A fuse rather than 3A? That's what I've used. Thanks a lot for the video!!
Hi, I used the 3A fuse as all charging electronic components should be capable of handling 3Amps and I *guess* that the fuse dies that fast as it too close to the maximum current of the fuse if charging the battery when it is pretty drained. So general speaking: 3A is the maximum the fuse should grant, 1.85A the minimum. Please let me/us know if your 1.85 fuse stays healthy for ~1-2 years. Till now I have not heard of any negativ side effects by upgrading the fuse to 3A - but I have also not heard of any negative effects by resoldering a 1.85A fuse. Thanks!
Thanks for the video. I disassembled my robot and tested the fuse, it reads between 0.0-0.1 ohms, so seems to be ok? Does the dock seem to be the next most likely culprit?
I went into this with no soldering experience. When I took the bad fuse off, there were two reddish rectangles underneath. Are those solder pads? I removed those too and there was a metallic material underneath the red rectangles. Was the new fuse supposed to be soldered to those red pads? Excellent tutorial btw.
Hello, tks for your great work. I replaced the fuse but after I done the robot start to charge for some minutes then it can't do anymore. I had to wait some minutes and then it can again. So I was suspecting that it was due to broken fuse. I then removed the fuse and shortened using wires. But this time the robot can't charge at all. The strange thing that I note is that the positive and negative poles of the red and black wire coming from near the fuse seems shortened but I think it is quite strange. Could you help me?
Hello, Just disassembled my S50, charging station is fine 19.5v, battery is 13.9v so its in lower range I believe, but fuse is 0.3-0.2 ohm, and I am a bit confused now what to do, because as far as I know 0.3-0.2 is normal?
Do you hav a solution if your fix is not working? (It's not working for me) I believe I saw some other video about other components to change, but I have not been able to find it again and the robot keeps having the same error 13. (Not every time but most of the charge sycles fail with error 13.)
Hi, sag mal bitte was ist ds kaputt gegangen wenn das Gerät kein WLAN und Bluetooth hat? Muss ich da die ganze platine austauschen oder reicht es ein bestimmtes Teil zu wechseln? Danke im voraus! LG
Hello sir, I've made everything like in your video, still the same, robot is just driving avay from the chargin bay saynt to clean the contacts, 1st time at 65% than at 85% and last time at 90% of battery charge, Could you help with additional tips please ?
Hi. I followed your guide and the robot still "functions", but also still gets the error 13. I measured the resistante on the fuse to me 0.8 like you. But the new fuse was like 0.6-0.8 Does this mean that the new fuses are not correct? They are 30V 3A fuses looking just like the one you use. Is there another way to check if it is really the fuse that is the problem?
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