Clarisonic Mia Battery Replacement Part 1: Replacing with the Eneloop
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
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This video shows how I crack open the Mia (same for Mia 2). Replacing the original battery with Eneloop battery, which is IMO - the best rechargeable battery at its price range (last up to 10 years with up to 2100 charge cycles). You can use any rechargeable AA but I just want this sucker to last longer time before I fix it or toss it.
The BEST and FASTEST way to open the case, is to use a Rotary Tool like a Dremel or Black & Decker RTX-B with Dremel #409 Cut-off Wheels. It's fast and safe, trust me! But if you don't have it ready and don't want to spend that $50. A knife and 30-45 minutes will do the work.
Notice I didn't use glue to seal the gap. Instead, I used Silicone Tape alone. So if anything goes wrong, I won't have to go thru the painful cracking process. For complete sealing (PLEASE DO!), I recommend first using Hot Glue gun with Precision Tip (clamp it while you are doing it). Then apply Silicone Tape like I did for the best sealing result.
$5 Silicone Tape: X-Treme Tape TPE-XZLCLR Silicone Rubber Self Fusing Tape 1" x 10'
Link: www.amazon.com/...
$11 Eneloop AA (4): www.amazon.com/...
*This battery reconditioning program exceeded my presumptions. It worked on any drill battery, several AA and AAA batteries, **batery.repair** and any camera battery. The steps are simple and the act itself is exciting to do. No matter what type of battery you`ve got, it is sure to function again!*
How many guys are here because their partners handed them this weird vibrating thing and asked them to fix it?
Thanks for the guide. Man is this thing a pain in the butt to open.
Just checked google analytics. 74% men vs 26% women within the 28k views as of today LOL
you deserve an award !!
....and how many are here so they can fix the problem themselves?😉👋🏼
Me. It's the price we pay for having lovely wives I suppose!
You could become a millionaire if you started replacing batteries on Clarisonic for people. The amount of people complaining that their Clarisonic died on them and NOT receiving help from Clarisonic is overwhelming!
The made it that way so you have to toss and buy new. The Philips shaver I bought 10 yrs ago still running/charging strong. Clarisonic is total BS. If I was to replace battery as a service, it would be hard to guarantee 100% waterproof after resealing, more of a headache...
Making use of the ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxcJ22tnHH9l1vjdIdEIG27iOG55P7LXI8 reconditioning plan, I just saved 2 auto batteries from being completely junked. The guides were very simple to follow. I wish I would have found this years ago! You may use the guide to recondition any battery type
Wonderful. Thank you for posting this classy video. Opening was the biggest challenge, and my Dremel with cutting wheel was much quicker (as you also point out in your responses to comments). Also, I probably would have thrown away the old batteries without checking polarity orientation first, so thank you for including that. I resealed the unit with a product from Liquid Nails, clamping for 24 hrs. Neatly sealed (smoothed with Dremel sander on low speed) and works like new. Wife very happy and impressed.
Thank you so much for this video! My Clarisonic Mia has been sitting in a box, "broken", for years. I can not wait for the Eneloop batteries to arrive! You saved my expensive little face brush, thank you!
+Brittany Trimble You are very welcome! I'm glad this helps you.
You cracked me up with the 5 minutes later ..... 10 minutes later ..... 10 ..... hysterical! And informative and helpful. Thanks!
Thanks a lot for sharing this tip which perfectly worked for me. Thanks again.
If I mail my Clarisonic Mia to you will you fix it if I pay you??
So what you're telling me is I should just throw mine away and buy a new one. Okay thanks!
two thumbs up! Very helpful! I am heading to home depot to get all the supplies
First 5 minutes, I already gave up not wanting to fix mine.
I used my Dremel with a cut of wheel, had it separated in no time:)
Thanks for your demonstration and patient work.
I will try to get my happy life back.
This cracks me up! The struggle is real to open this thing! lol
.I heated up a exacto knife with a propane tourch,cuts the plastic case nicely .Back and working.
right on! good tips!
I'm amazed you didn't lose a finger. No way is this gadget worth it. I'm going to pitch mine.
I was amazed too LOL well I didn't expect the fact it took that long to cut it open.
You deserve a medal!
Good job. Your patience rivals Job...
Dude is the GOAT.... Thanks for the video
You will notice that the original battery, the connections are made using resistance spot welding. It is very dangerous to solder battery connections. The heat from the soldering can melt the internal separator of the battery and cause a fire.
+1. In this case they're NiMH so there's no great danger, but it can still degrade the batteries. Either use a spot welder, buy batteries with pre-welded tabs that you can safely solder onto, or get a 2x AA battery holder.
I did the hot glue thing at the end and it was a mess. It was too thick even wet to get the thing to snap together again. I just used the tape you suggested...I feel like I just conquered the world. The total I spent was about $30 on the supplies you link to on Amazon (silicon tape, soldering gun & the batteries). Bite me Clarisonic. Don't bother to tell me you can't leave the thing in a drawer for 6 months or it'll go dead. I win.
We are those 0.2% of the population... isn't that awesome? :D
i cant believe there is such a poor method of opening the handle...cmon..i wouldnt buy it if i knew the first replacement i probably would destroy the handle
look at the person below...heading out to get all the supplies...after paying so much
Wow I would not have the patience to do this
I am so impressed by you!!
+Catherine Ojakangas Thx. It drives us crazy when electronic breaks every year or two JUST because of the rechargeable battery dies (and this is a $150 plastic). The last thing we need is more plastic on our landfills :(
compliments, very good job, but how many times have you wanted to fly it away from the window?indow?
My clarisonic worked very well for the first 2-3 years, after it stopped functioning, I would repair it, but it is not possible because there is no customer care! what should I do, should I throw it away? I do not think it is right, last week I took to repair a 30 $ blender, because I can not fix a device that costs 5 times as much and it works only 1 minute a day? I went to sephora, checked the box and the sheets inside, there is no written anywhere that, after the two years of warranty, you have to throw it in the rubbish! is a very, very incorrect behavior, not all people can afford to spend 150 $ (and more) every 2 years! for this reason I am trying to alert people who, before buying clarisonic, also consider this issue! please, share this, it is very important that all people who want to buy clarisonic know this problem too!
We should all join and demand this company to fix or replace the Clarisonic. How in the world they didn't design this device and people can't open it. Bad designer ...
I wonder if you wrapped it in a towel and put it in a vise and gently squeezed it, then maybe the seal around the unit would crack open.?
What happen if doesn’t vibrating? In that case because of battery to?
Hi i did the same repair and it worked, but in closing it up now it just blinks fast if i push the power button... the green board seems all right, any advice?
congratulations for the tutorial, really useful and very clear, certainly I'll try it too!
Great video, I'm going through these steps now and yeah I went with the manual opening method and it did take me about 20 minutes and lots of elbow grease :-) When it comes to the battery pack you remove, I noticed you wrote positive and negative signs on both of them... since they only have a single positive sign on the one battery, how did you know that the battery next to it was actually opposite (negative at the top, positive at the bottom)?
were you wearing cut proof gloves? That looks important. I started cutting on mine with a utility knife and slipped a few times. got scared I was going to chop off a finger and set it aside.
No, the gloves I used wasn't cut-proof. I made sure I position the blade direction away from cutting myself. I did slipped many times and it landed on my cutting mat. That's why I made the part3 video showing how to cut open the Mia with a Dremel tool. It only took me 5-7 mins.
Ah, thanks. I will watch part 3. And I DO have a Dremel tool. I will just have to get the correct bit for cutting.
+kathleenin kansas I used #409 (the 0.025 inches thick cut-off wheel). The spinning/heat will melt the edge as you cut the Mia. Make sure you align the wheel straight (challenging) and clean up nicely before assembling. That way, you can achieve better result when closing the gap.
+kathleenin kansas I used #409 (the 0.025 inches thick cut-off wheel). The spinning/heat will melt the edge as you cut the Mia. Make sure you align the wheel straight (challenging) and clean up nicely before assembling. That way, you can achieve better result when closing the gap.
I noticed when you soldered the final connection the green LED started blinking. Mine also blinked green when I soldered the final connection, however when I press the power button it just blinks green 15 times consecutively. I used the same eneloop batteries as you did and they come charged. To sum it up, is there some sort of reset I need to do, or must I put it on the charger for 24 hours even with charged batteries? You would think it would just work off the bat. I also have not put the back on yet, but don’t see why that would matter. Any help would be much appreciated!
The connection to the PCB board has broken on mine. I can solder new ones on, but can't find any. Any idea what they would be called?
K O, did you replace the battery because it wouldn't charge and there was no sign of life? When we had to reset the breaker my device wigged out. When it's plugged in it just makes a consistent vibrating pulse that never stops and the same happens when i push the on button. Would you think it was a bad battery at this point and that replacing it would solve my problem?
mine did the same ! it turned on at 4.00 am and wouldn't stop, now it has stopped charging, so I think i will try to replace the battery...
KO. What size Oneloop batteries did you use for the Mia?
Before repairing mia, the light is still lit, the machine is light vibration low battery?
could I send you mine and pay you to fix it?
Sorry, unless if I'm doing 10 of these. Otherwise, it will be way too much effort for the setup, parts & materials etc.
How did you get the battery off the battery connectors with the wire cutters? Were you breaking them off, or cutting them below the connection?
+Sarah Kate Marsh When I repair the first unit, I cut it off with a wire cutter, a bit messy and slow. On the 2nd unit, I used the Dremel rotary tool with a thin cut off wheel. It took no time and did a clean cut. The key is to cut it as close as the battery, leaving yourself more metal on the Mia to work with when solding it to the new battery later on.
Thank you! That helps a lot!
I have a different problem with my Clarisonic Mia. One of the magnets on the vibrating (moving) part got loose and stuck in the gap between the static and moving part of the vibration system. It was easy to get the magnet out and glued back in its spot with super glue. The batteries are still OK and Mia is operational again. But I started to get intrigued if the magnet polarization was of any importance for the vibration amplitude. I tested and found that I glued the loose magnet in the opposite way of the magnet from the original assembly. Does anyone know what the original factory mounting of the magnets is? Or does some one know the science/math behind the magnet system and can give advice? Or could some one test an open Mia with a small magnet to check what the original position of the 2 magnets is: same or opposite polarization?
Thanks
Hi, what's the tool that you use to clamp the item? And also..can you explain a little bit about the battery part? You made some markings and somehow got the wire there. And the wire...did you just cut a piece from the headphone cord?
hi, I used a C-clamp that I got from Harbor Freight. The markings on the batteries were to make the soldering wire easier to stick on the surface. I did use a small wire from a broken pair of headphone, I saved different sizes of wire/cords for repair purposes, you shouldn't have to buy them.
Thank you for your reply. I have a few more questions after rewatching your video. Did you solder the wire on both top and bottom of the pair of batteries? At first it was just on the bottom (I think). Then after you placed the batteries into the machine, you did something to the top? And also, before you put the two halves of the machine back together, what was that bottle of white stuff? You put some white stuff here and there around the parts.
+Jenn Hi Jenn, you only need to solder the wire at bottom of the batteries (make sure you connect + to -). At the top, you'll be soldering the batteries directly to the 2 metal tabs extended from the motherboard. The white stuff is acrylic caulking but please use 100% silicone caulking instead. You can also use glue gun but silicone is way easier to remove if you ever need to access it again. The best practice is to caulk the batteries, test your brush, drain the batteries, recharge making sure everything's working. Then seal the covers for good. Goodluck!
I went through all this trouble, ordered and waited for new batteries, soldered all new batteries back together and now it won’t charge. I really though it would work too. Crazy part is I checked the charge before removing old batteries and was getting a charge. Not with the new ones though.
Soldering may have killed the batteries. Either use a spot welder, buy batteries with pre-welded tabs that you can safely solder onto, or get a 2x AA battery holder.
Sorry to bother :) you know the rounded thing with holes you can see after you take off your brush? It came off :'( what product should I use to reattach it?
+Eleonora vuilleumier Sorry, that I don't know. I have to see it in person unless if I detach it on my wife's unit to see what's going on there.
Very very helpful, will definitely try it.
Can u turn of the timer on it?
What kind of batteries is it
omg thank you for this!!! I literally just posted a comment on another video about this bc I watched it and thought so simple I can do that. took 2 hours to get apart and then didn't know what to do with the batteries to get it and actually replace. now I see I need whatever that tool was to connect the batteries again. ....what is that? I'm girl. not very handy but willing to learn! ! :)
+Stacey Bailey No problem, I will walk you thru. The easiest thing to do is find a friend who can do soldering to replace the battery for you, because if you haven't done soldering before, it may be a challenging. Now if you really want to get the tools, you may get a Precision Tip Soldering Iron, Solder Wire, cut off a piece of Lead Wire from un-use electronics, a small waterproof silicone, For sealing the outside crack, I recommend using hot glue gun with Precision Tip, then tape it with the silicone tape I used at the end of the video. All the tools and materials could run you $40-50 if you don't have them. Anyway, let me know if you have any question.
+K O awesome! thank you. still cheaper than a new clarisonic. I Finally bit the bullet and bought a new brush head for it cuz I haven't used it in a while and then it stopped working after 2 days.
Too many people, including me, are having these pricey units die on them. Just not worth all the money. I found other ways to clean my face just as effectively and deeply, with silicone scrubbers, muslin, etc., and without skin damage or broken capillaries, or the high cost.
Absolutely not! Just read an eBay auction talkin’ ‘bout, just replace the battery - as if it was a simple thing to do. Hey! This ain’t lookin’ easy. No way, Jose. Not buying a dead unit off eBay to go fix.
First off, TOTALLY agree about the Eneloop batteries!! They.ROCK and hold a charge for an eternity. :) But I want to make sure I understand - they will charge through the plastic handle of the clarisonic? I have some Eneloops that charge in a charger where they make direct contact with the metal charger thingys (not sure what they're called!) But they will charge up through the plastic? If so, I may have to do this, as my old Clairsonic (not the Mia, the slightly bigger and older one) seems to not hold a charge for more than a week now...
Thank you for this video - I'mma save it so I can go right to it when I need to refresh myself on how to do this!
Hi there. Eneloop doesn't charge thru plastic but the Clarisonic has a wireless charger inside. The batteries used in the original unit is far worse than Eneloop and still worked. So no worries, unless if your built-in wireless charger broke. If the unit is failing, not charging... worth a shot. Nothing to lose, most people toss them away anyway.
Can I use standard copper electrical wire? Mine died and want to see if I can repair it.
Yes, you can. The key is to do it fast with a hot soldering iron. You not suppose to heat up the battery that much.
Thin sanding disc on a rotary tool makes short work of opening the case.
I think I’m throwing mine away!😮
Yea!
Best laugh I've had in a while. I already bought a new one 10 minutes into the video!
Considering the video is 6 minutes long that is quite a feat!
What type of gauge wire did you use?
This is crazy all that effort for this. Noway. I throw it away
Makes the company happy!
De verdad que es un pendejada la forma para abrir , no se vale que abusen de la gente .
Yea I’m just gonna buy a new one 😂
lol i appreciate your humour! no more clarisonic for me though. used mine maybe 40X total? bah. good work though.