Robot Battery Replacement

[Danny Hosford]

Checkout this guy. He replaced his original battery pack with better batteries for his Gibson Robot. The originals have a terrible shelf life and loose power quicker than the metal based batteries mentioned in this article. They also cost around $60 bucks. He describes how he replaced the originals with batts. off the shelf for a better experience. Let me know if anyone else has had a similar experience: =1130. I'm thinking about going this route with my Ebony, 2009 Les Paul ROBOT.

I know this is an old thread but, I did the same thing and it works great! $5 pair of NiMH AA batteries on Amazon, some hot glue, solder and electrical tape. My 2008 Wine Red LP Robot Studio works like new again. Took about 15 min at a leisurely pace. I'd considered the "un-robot" procedure but given that there a no issues anymore, I might just leave it be until a tuner or something else fails.

I have a Gibson Les Paul 2006/07 original limited edition blue guitar with 1 gen Tronical tuning system. Its been dead for years, and I kept it with me. The battery died sometime in 2010 I believe. Many years later I now work with electronics, and I decided to figure out how I can revive the guitar tuning.

I made my own Nimh battery pack with 2x 2000mah 1.2v batteries. What I did was I made a nice connector pack and with that a thinner wire. Then I connected and I heard a slightly ticking from the tronical cpu, and MCK has all leds flashing blue. weird I thought. its getting 2.7v. That was yesterday,

I slept on it, and I know that the original battery pack doesnt have any electronics inside it. So I connected my bench power supply directly to cpu terminals, and cpu/mck started up fine with 2.6v from my bench power supply.

What I think is going on here is the resistance when starting cpu and MCK from the battery, and it needs to draw alot of energy to do the tuning of all motors. I guess theres a dc-AC converter within the electronics and that draws a certain amount of energy.

For those here who has blue flashing even battery pack delivers 2.6-2.8v, that means battery can not deliver enough amp to start cpu with its dc-ac converter to do the tuning. This means a battery change. And the thicknes wires to the battery is important.

My robot vacuum is beginning to have to recharge too often and needs a new battery i suspect. There is one available on line at 21 dollars and the alibaba wholesale price is 11 dollars. Perhaps you could stock these batteries and have them available for long time users.

It seems likely that most or all of the early units will be experiencing battery failure to the point of inoperability in the near future. It would behoove Wyze to get ahead of this and offer replacement batteries as an expendable part. A 2 year lifespan on a robovac is unacceptable.

This worked for me and arrived the fastest. I ordered it on Feb 20, it arrived on March 3. (11 days) to transit from China to Syracuse, NY with the standard shipping offer. Quite impressive. I placed a duplicate order in parallel from another seller on e-Bay for the same part, also shipping from China and it was a few dollars more, but it has not arrived yet. (22 days and counting). The promised delivery dates for both were mid-March to the end of April. But AliExpress seems to have their shipping process down and appears to be delivering product much quicker than promised.

If you flip the unit over and remove the main brush, you will see (4) small phillips head screws that hold the battery compartment on. Remove those, remove the cover, unplug the battery, and installation is the reverse of removal.

Robot wants me to replace brushes and filters, but I want a new battery since it now needs to recharge twice to complete the task that used to run on a single charge. So I reached out to Wyze support. No dice:

It should have at least the most basic li-ion charging circuit, that includes overcharge protection. If mine starts acting up I plan to install in-line volt/current monitoring to see what it actually does.

A quick search for INR18650 MH1-4S1P-SC shows AliExpress has a replacement battery. It fits the Xiaomi vac which is the company that makes the Wyze robot vac.

Unfortunately they seem to be the only place to buy one.

Replacing the battery is easy. Remove the roller brush cover and you will see 4 small Philips head screws holding a cover down. Remove these screws, lift the cover off, pull the battery out, and disconnect the plug from the vacuum. Installation is the reverse of removal.

I'm just starting my adventure with robot programming as a junior engineer. In the past I used to be in contact with ABB and OTC robots, and now my job is to program the Kawasaki FS20N polishing process for the new company. I have two problems and I kindly ask for help.

One of the employees accidentally just typed in the "exe" command (without program name after "exe") and approved it. The robot moved forward and the J5 axis bent and damaged the pneumatic spigot. We quickly stopped the robot in an emergency and replaced the spigot with a new one. After restarting the robot, a "W1013 encoder battery low voltage [Servo(0)]" error appears on the computer screen and a red error light on the control cabinet keeps lighting up. After deletion it, I tried to put the robot in the starting position manually, but the robot is behaving strangely. In a kind of "base point" control the axes do not work properly. The robot moves in different axes and directions than I control. What battery should I buy and where is it located to replace it? Is it enough to change the battery and it should be working again?

I wrote the program about a month ago and it worked without problems. The boss asked me to back up the program for fear of losing data. So I downloaded the programs from the robot's memory to a CF card (the first time I had one in my hands ) and took it out. Out of curiosity I turned on the program without the card and it turned out that it worked, so I left it like this, without the card inside. It turned out that after one of the sub-programmes was done, the polishing discs stop working, even though the robot is still making the right moves. What should I do? Is it enough to upload the programs back into the robot's memory? I can insert a screenshot of the program here.

If the collision applied enough force to the wrist assembly (dependent of variation of model), sometimes the gear pulley attached to the motor shaft rotates (tapered fitting) is also forced around - this causes the physical wrist to mechanical spin - resulting in JT5 being out of mechanical zero.

Therefore, JT5 should be inspected by removing the side cover for any further damage (take care in there, belts are located for JT5 and JT6 and are not finger friendly.....so no touchy touchy until you have isolated the power during inspection).

Oh my mistake, I'm still learning all the different models. I don't want to high jack this post and can contact my distributer. Id be looking for a Zx series, RD series, and a RS series Zeroing and motors instruction manuals

Today I got the betteries and I wanted to replace them. I tried to set up the robot so that each axis was in the 0,000 position and and noticed, that axis 3 and 6 don't move in "plus" direction. I am 99% sure that gears are not broken. My hit was really light. Do you think the reason is low encoder battery or it may be more serous problem? Should we call the service guys?

If there is any zeroing data loss, it is probable that the encoder values will be different than to what it was calibrated before, therefore these 'new' values will be used to calculate joint angles and probably exceed either the minimum or maximum software limits.

Hello,

I have the Neato D7 that orderd from December of 2018. Since then it was working perfectly.

Now it starts leaving rooms or part of the rooms unclean (as shown from the map it sends. This it started i thing after i replace the o ring from the side brush that it was not spinning. I think the problem might be with the battery that it was never replaced. It stays to charge for a long time before it goes back to continue and i think that it lost its place because of the long time. Some times after it charged it sends a message that it was finnished without continueing.

So from where i can find a battery to be shipped to Cyprus?

Hello @igor_X my D7 was purchased from robotshop eu and it was shipped. As i know it can be shipped but it should be indicated on the package that it is an Li-On battery? The D7 it has the inticated that it includs battery.

The battery pack for our Aldebaran / SoftBank Robotics Nao V6 robot broke and we are currently not able to find a reseller that ships to our country. Even contacting SoftBank Robotics directly did not result in any response. The official specifications are available here. Since the battery pack was clearly broken we decided to open it up to be able to find a replacement battery ourselves.

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