I thought about reviving my Dyson V6 Slim battery pack but decided to get the higher capacity larger battery pack from the bay for around 30 aussie dollars. It's been in there for about 4 years and still works fine.
Replacing the batteries usually doesn't work when the voltage gets too low... these batteries have a suicide mechanism that detects the low voltage and sets a flag in the microcontroller eeprom causing the led to flash red and after that it won't work even with new replaced batteries. The eeprom bit can be re-set using an eprom programmer but at that point it's easier to just buy a chinese copy for a few dollars. The copies work well and don't have the suicide 'feature'. If I have to buy a new one every 4-5 years it's still cheaper than buying the original battery.
You are right. Dyson batteries are locked if you disconnect the batteries' terminal. This is to prevent people doing what I do to protect their revenue. I had re-progammed the circuit board before shooting the video. Since the process is complicated and is not the focus of this video, it is being skipped to make it simple. Thanks for your professional comments.
This is not how to do it people. Believe me I do electronics and you need a battery spot welder and them batteries he is using are not right for this. This is how you can cause a fire so don’t do it ok.
I thought about reviving my Dyson V6 Slim battery pack but decided to get the higher capacity larger battery pack from the bay for around 30 aussie dollars. It's been in there for about 4 years and still works fine.
Simple and wise decision
Replacing the batteries usually doesn't work when the voltage gets too low... these batteries have a suicide mechanism that detects the low voltage and sets a flag in the microcontroller eeprom causing the led to flash red and after that it won't work even with new replaced batteries. The eeprom bit can be re-set using an eprom programmer but at that point it's easier to just buy a chinese copy for a few dollars. The copies work well and don't have the suicide 'feature'. If I have to buy a new one every 4-5 years it's still cheaper than buying the original battery.
You are right. Dyson batteries are locked if you disconnect the batteries' terminal. This is to prevent people doing what I do to protect their revenue.
I had re-progammed the circuit board before shooting the video. Since the process is complicated and is not the focus of this video, it is being skipped to make it simple.
Thanks for your professional comments.
This is not how to do it people. Believe me I do electronics and you need a battery spot welder and them batteries he is using are not right for this. This is how you can cause a fire so don’t do it ok.
You are right. Spot welder is the better way on batteries. People need to know the risk and precautions if you do it on soldering iron.
those cells are not high current! Will not hold long
Yup, you need genuine Sony VTC5 batteries at least