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
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!
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.. ..
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 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.
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.
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 !!!
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.
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.
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
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 👍🏻
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
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 ;).
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. :-)
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. 😅
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!
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.
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.
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!
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!
I have an s10. There are two smd parts marked as R??? (Forget numbers.) And have a zig zag resistor symbol on it. Suggesting they are resistors. They are both open. Im thinking thermal fuse ? Is that right. Can i just short them
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.
replaced it with a copy of the original component instead and also worked fine, the resistance readings were all quite random so not really sure it is the proper way to measure them.
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 =).
Maybe very risky and destructive, but I wonder about cutting out an access port above where the fuse would be. At least it will be covered by the trim plate when done.
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?
Hello, I just received a roborock s5 from a friend without a dock. I have connected it to my Vacuum mop 1c dock and it charges to about 65-70% than it moves away and says error 13. I have disassemble it and checked the fuse. In continuity mode I have a connection and in ohm the value is 0.2 ohm. The fuse seems to be ok. Can it be another component on the mainboard? Can it be that the docking i have only feeds 19.5 V at 1 amp instead of 20V at 2A ? I don't want to buy another dock just to find out it is not the problem. Can you please help me with a suggestion. Thank you!
Hi Adrian, sorry for the late reply. Mh, did you already change the fuse? You might heat the mainboard using a fuse and measure the resistance when it is cold, and when it is warm (not HOT!). The resistance of the fuse will change, but in what range? For a short term you might just shorten the fuse (please do not use this as a permanent solution!!!) and check if it is loading further. The voltage and rating of your dock seems to be ok so far. Please try to change or shorten the fuse - then we might continue with the next step.
@@bastelbank5855 hi. In the meantime I have resolved the problem. It was the dock itself. It seams that if you use a different dock you receive error 13 after 70%. I have borrowed an original s5 dock and it works fine with it. Ended up buying one used and it work fine now. Thanks for your reply and for the detailed repair video. It helped me a lot to troubleshoot the problem. Take care and greetings from Romania!
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.
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?
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?
Battery is good, measured the resistor/fuse and also put a temporary wire to jump the fuse....still have the same error 14 (also got onece error 13). Any help?
Thank you so much. We replaced it but the error is still persist. I took her to a technician. He said the motherboard needs to be changed. As they request a lots of money, mor ed than it worth, is it doable to replace it by our self?
Hello! I tested my voltage with the roborock on its docking station. It hits around 2 volts, bounces around and hits zero. Then repeats. What is at fault here?
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 ?
Hello? The error disappeared after the fuse replacement, but the wifi doesn't work. Can you guess the cause?(Wi-Fi led doesn't turn on and doesn't appear in the search list at all.)
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?
Hello! Thank you for taking your time to show us how to fix this thing. My battery measure it's 11.46V this is bad? As you said if it's fully drained it should be around 13.5V... maybe my problem is the battery? instead of the fuse. Thank you
@@FCBtriplet Hi, sorry for the late response!! 11.46V is pretty low for the batteries voltage. It MAY be, that you robot is drained that far, that (at least) one cell within the battery is faulty and needs to be replaced. It would be great if you could provide feedback, if the battery was still recoverable after replacing the fuse. I hope that everything is working well after the fuse was replaced :-)!
@@bastelbank5855 Hi! Good news! Yesterday I received the new fuses you recommended and finally could replace it. I was afraid that the battery was too drained but the new measure that I took yesterday was about 13.50V so it seemed right to me and I gave it a try, so.. after replacing the fuse and mounting back the essential parts I put it on the dock station and it said charging and a red light appeared again but this time it was dimming instead of flashing (damn I felt bad for a moment lol) but this time it did not say anything about error 13 so there was still hope and I left it charging with a red dimming light for about 1 hour. I think it was because of the battery level it was really low, after an hour or so the red light disappeared and white dimming light started, and after couple of hours more the battery was fully charged, now it's 100% and it's working perfectly. Thank you!!
@@FCBtriplet You are right, the red led dimming indicates a low battery level while charging. During the charge it should change to a white dimming led. All you said sounds like you fixed the issue by replacing the fuse: Congratulations to your new old roborock!
@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?
Change the station ;-). Did you check the power chord already? Sometimes there are some power system adapters used - they are most of the time pretty crappy - you might want to get a power chord WITHOUT that adapter. If you tried the station with any other power chord (without adapter) and already slightly wobbled that cable - your dockingstation is most probably broken and needs a change =/.
Nice and usefull video. I ordered a spart parts set for my Roborock S5 max , and there are in addition four small parts called "water cores", but I don't know where them are assembled. Could you please let me know about these "water cores"? Thank you .
The "water cores" are located under the fabric at the bottom of the water tank. So if you are not using the mop feature, you do not need those cores :-).
@@bastelbank5855 Thank you very much for your aswer! I have and I'm using the mop feature. In the mop support there are a couple of bottons that are pushed when assembled and allow at the water to pass throw and go to the mop. Are these the "water cores"? In addition it seems that is not possible to remove them... The user manual doesn't mention about it...
@@michelecremona8205 Yes, those buttons are the "water cores". They might calcify over time - you *MIGHT* need some (not too much!) force to remove them.
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.
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?
hi, I want to ask a question about battery performance and life in general. I am using s5max. When will the battery lifetime start to decrease if we use it at least once a day and everyday in a week ?
Hi, the battery lifetime will decrease as you start using the robot. I am using my S5 three times a week and the battery still works fine after 4 years now. I cannot provide you any more detailed numbers than this: the remaining battery after a full cleanup was around 55% - now it is around 45%. Same room, same conditions. I am still impressed how good the battery keeps up after 4 years of working.
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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!
@@nellscott9105 Then it is probably the charger or the battery at fault... Error 13 can be hard to solve...
@@nellscott9105 So still error 13 after motherboard change and everything? How did your story end?
@@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
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!
Your English is very good, don't worry about it. We all understand you 😊
I changed the fuse and it didn't solve it, but used this video twice, once for the fuse and the second time for the motherboard. You're a legend!
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
Hi Budi, sehr gerne :-)! I am so glad that this tutorial already helped out that many people! Good luck on your repair process!!
Awesome tutorial. I soldered the new fuse over the old to avoid the risk of damaging the motherboard. It worked and the vacuum charge properly now.
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.
@@scottsadler484 Yes, why wouldn't you? Just make sure the solder connect each side. Mine has been working properly since i posted four month ago.
@@staffanwetter942 Yep mine's working now too! Cheers.
Did u do any picture? How it works if the other fuse is connected also?
It works, trust me. I dont have a photo.
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.
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!
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.
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..
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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 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.
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.
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 !!!
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.
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.
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
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 👍🏻
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.
Same problem, did you end up fixing it?
Someone mentioned its a software issue, did you reset it to default which also downgrades firmware?
No I didn't downgraded, I am using latest version.
Qnoops did a reset of unit which downgrades firmware, its not charging as normal
Thank you for the walkthrough on how to remove the fuse!! It's working great now, after replacement!
Thank you for this instructional video. My roborock fuse failed out of warranty. I managed to get it working again with your guide.
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 :)
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.
Today, with you video I've fixed my Roborock. Thank you for great description!
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.
Thanks, struggled a bit removing the old capacitor but got there in the end. Great tutorial.
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 ;).
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. :-)
Thanks for great tutorial - I managed to fix my robot without any soldering skills. The total cost was just $20 for a soldering kit with multimeter.
Congratulation to your new old robot :-)! May the force (aka the S50) last for a long time with you!
Cześć. Gdzie zamawiałeś zestaw do lutowania plus miernik?
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. 😅
I would recommend a wide soldertip for desoldering like this or very small hot airgun.
Thank you for your kind. My robot can back to work because of you.
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!
Great video, and my robot isn't even broken (yet)!
Thanks alot for this video tutorial, I could fix my roborock even with a zero skill soldering :)
Hi Bastelbank, thank you for the detailed repair guide. My Roborock S50 was working fine after the fuse change.
Thank you so much for this video and your accurate instructions and suggestion. The fix worked great and it helped me save a wonderful machine.
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.
I manage to fix my s50 thanks to your video ! Thank you
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.
My friend thank you for the video it fixed my problem and the vacuum naw charge as normal also i used 30v 2.5A instead of 3A
Couldnt Find 3A one.
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!
Big thank you from Western Australia! New battery on its way anyway but very useful video!
Thanks, I thought opening it was more difficult.
PTC 30V 3A but which resistance value? In Conrad there are many.
Thank you. Very small contact points after removing the old fuse? Didn't think it would work, but assembled it back and it now charges 👍
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!
I have an s10. There are two smd parts marked as R??? (Forget numbers.) And have a zig zag resistor symbol on it. Suggesting they are resistors. They are both open. Im thinking thermal fuse ? Is that right. Can i just short them
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.
Hi Bastelbank,
Many thanks for your detailed video. I followed your interesting guide and Roborock came to life. Thanks a lot!
replaced it with a copy of the original component instead and also worked fine, the resistance readings were all quite random so not really sure it is the proper way to measure them.
Hi dear. I am at the measurement of the dock voltage. The measurement is 18.8v with the robot on it. Is it enough?
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 =).
Just changed the capacitor in the dock to no effect, so I guess I'll do this now, good video.
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This fixed Error 13 on my Roborock E25, thanks!
thank you for you guide , I solved my issue following the step indicated in your video .
THANK YOU!!! 🙏 This fixed my machine.
Wow, your fix works like a charm! Thank you SO much, man!
Thanks for this video - allowed me to fix my robot with confidence- great video.
Thank you very much! She is now working perfectly. Your video helps for repairing it a lot.
Maybe very risky and destructive, but I wonder about cutting out an access port above where the fuse would be. At least it will be covered by the trim plate when done.
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?
Hi. Your tutorial was very helpful. You are good at this. Greetings from Poland :)
thank you very much ! I repaired same issue by fuse change . God bless you !
Where is self-healing fuse on the robot -vacuum cleaner mod. MJSTG1? Thank you!
Hi @Bastelbank, thanks for this video. Very useful, clear and complete.
Hello, I just received a roborock s5 from a friend without a dock. I have connected it to my Vacuum mop 1c dock and it charges to about 65-70% than it moves away and says error 13. I have disassemble it and checked the fuse. In continuity mode I have a connection and in ohm the value is 0.2 ohm. The fuse seems to be ok. Can it be another component on the mainboard? Can it be that the docking i have only feeds 19.5 V at 1 amp instead of 20V at 2A ? I don't want to buy another dock just to find out it is not the problem. Can you please help me with a suggestion. Thank you!
Hi Adrian, sorry for the late reply. Mh, did you already change the fuse? You might heat the mainboard using a fuse and measure the resistance when it is cold, and when it is warm (not HOT!). The resistance of the fuse will change, but in what range? For a short term you might just shorten the fuse (please do not use this as a permanent solution!!!) and check if it is loading further. The voltage and rating of your dock seems to be ok so far. Please try to change or shorten the fuse - then we might continue with the next step.
@@bastelbank5855 hi. In the meantime I have resolved the problem. It was the dock itself. It seams that if you use a different dock you receive error 13 after 70%. I have borrowed an original s5 dock and it works fine with it. Ended up buying one used and it work fine now. Thanks for your reply and for the detailed repair video. It helped me a lot to troubleshoot the problem. Take care and greetings from Romania!
Great Job I really enjoyed listen to your explanation. .
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.
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?
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?
What if the fuse has resistance of 00.0? Should still be replaced?
i have 0.1 also, im going to replace just cause i wana try and hope to fix it
Battery is good, measured the resistor/fuse and also put a temporary wire to jump the fuse....still have the same error 14 (also got onece error 13). Any help?
Measured the charging station and is ok. I get 0.15-0.3 values at the resistor.
Hello, why there is a black flter on the side? Isn`t there the exhaust? the air is already filtered by the HEPA filter isn`t it?
I have 2 words to say. Thank you! Great tutorial, all works well.
Muchas gracias, muy bien explicado. Ya he cambiado el fusible y ya está funcionando perfectamente.
¿Dónde has encontrado el fusible? Gracias.
Thank you so much. We replaced it but the error is still persist. I took her to a technician. He said the motherboard needs to be changed. As they request a lots of money, mor ed than it worth, is it doable to replace it by our self?
Thank you ! This really helped and I fixed my robot!
Hi
In my case I can't buy PTC 30V 3A. In the neighborhood I can buy PTC 30V 2A or PTC 30V 4A. Which could be good instead of 3A?
Hi, the fuse should be rated between 1.85A and 3A, thus 2A/30V is your best choice. Good luck in your repair process!
@@bastelbank5855 The first full charge is done. ;) The 2A/30V is work fine! Thanks again!
Greetings from Brazil ! I'll try to disassemble myself!
THANK YOU!!!! MY CHILD IS NOW WALKING AGAIN !!
I replaced the part but it's still giving me the error. Charging station still seems good. Any other suggestions?
Hello! I tested my voltage with the roborock on its docking station. It hits around 2 volts, bounces around and hits zero. Then repeats. What is at fault here?
Battery is also at zero but that’s probably due to it not being able to charge
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 ?
Hello? The error disappeared after the fuse replacement, but the wifi doesn't work. Can you guess the cause?(Wi-Fi led doesn't turn on and doesn't appear in the search list at all.)
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?
Why would this happen even after changing the motherboard i still have error 13 on the new motherboard?
Thank you for the video. My roborock works again.👍
Hello! Thank you for taking your time to show us how to fix this thing. My battery measure it's 11.46V this is bad? As you said if it's fully drained it should be around 13.5V... maybe my problem is the battery? instead of the fuse. Thank you
Well. I have taken a measure from the fuse and it's the same as you.. 0.8 so I will replace it. Thank you
@@FCBtriplet Hi, sorry for the late response!! 11.46V is pretty low for the batteries voltage. It MAY be, that you robot is drained that far, that (at least) one cell within the battery is faulty and needs to be replaced. It would be great if you could provide feedback, if the battery was still recoverable after replacing the fuse. I hope that everything is working well after the fuse was replaced :-)!
@@bastelbank5855 Hi! Good news! Yesterday I received the new fuses you recommended and finally could replace it. I was afraid that the battery was too drained but the new measure that I took yesterday was about 13.50V so it seemed right to me and I gave it a try, so.. after replacing the fuse and mounting back the essential parts I put it on the dock station and it said charging and a red light appeared again but this time it was dimming instead of flashing (damn I felt bad for a moment lol) but this time it did not say anything about error 13 so there was still hope and I left it charging with a red dimming light for about 1 hour. I think it was because of the battery level it was really low, after an hour or so the red light disappeared and white dimming light started, and after couple of hours more the battery was fully charged, now it's 100% and it's working perfectly. Thank you!!
@@FCBtriplet You are right, the red led dimming indicates a low battery level while charging. During the charge it should change to a white dimming led. All you said sounds like you fixed the issue by replacing the fuse: Congratulations to your new old roborock!
@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?
My charging dock is mot getting g lighted up..no light on the station..what do u suggest
Change the station ;-). Did you check the power chord already? Sometimes there are some power system adapters used - they are most of the time pretty crappy - you might want to get a power chord WITHOUT that adapter. If you tried the station with any other power chord (without adapter) and already slightly wobbled that cable - your dockingstation is most probably broken and needs a change =/.
Very helpful video thank you.. can you please specify what kind of fuse i can use ?
Nice and usefull video.
I ordered a spart parts set for my Roborock S5 max , and there are in addition four small parts called "water cores", but I don't know where them are assembled.
Could you please let me know about these "water cores"?
Thank you .
The "water cores" are located under the fabric at the bottom of the water tank. So if you are not using the mop feature, you do not need those cores :-).
@@bastelbank5855 Thank you very much for your aswer!
I have and I'm using the mop feature. In the mop support there are a couple of bottons that are pushed when assembled and allow at the water to pass throw and go to the mop. Are these the "water cores"?
In addition it seems that is not possible to remove them...
The user manual doesn't mention about it...
@@michelecremona8205 Yes, those buttons are the "water cores". They might calcify over time - you *MIGHT* need some (not too much!) force to remove them.
@@bastelbank5855 Thank you again!
I think that a short tutorial video will be appreciated. ;-)
hi, I have the same e13 error but my fuse is ok , resistance is 0,01 , charger has 4,20V and working 19,5 V , where else can by wrong ?
Same as you..did you fix it?
@@adrianalouche1739 I've changed battery and new main-board but still the same, I think is is charger because everything else is new.
@@RolandVful thank you for the reply i orded a new battery and dock hope it helps..hope it works for you as well!
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.
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?
Anyone know where to buy this fuse in EU? Can't seem to find it
The best tutorial . Im Fix my s50. Thanks.
hi, I want to ask a question about battery performance and life in general. I am using s5max. When will the battery lifetime start to decrease if we use it at least once a day and everyday in a week ?
Hi, the battery lifetime will decrease as you start using the robot. I am using my S5 three times a week and the battery still works fine after 4 years now. I cannot provide you any more detailed numbers than this: the remaining battery after a full cleanup was around 55% - now it is around 45%. Same room, same conditions. I am still impressed how good the battery keeps up after 4 years of working.
@@bastelbank5855 thank you for your response. Glad to hear that, sounds like quite good performance experience
@@baranbaris1172 I am quite pleased with that robot, that's right 😏.
I clean my room twice a day every day for the past two years and there is a slight decrease in battery but barely noticeable :)