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Condor

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PerfectAsshole

6063

6y

It's always been a thing. Hell look at rechargeable drills, every-fucking-year they change the profile of the batteries and either discontinue or charge 4 times than a battery was the year before. Cunts think they can make a killing, jokes on them i just cut them open and replace the damn battery cells
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Condor

32327

6y

@PerfectAsshole That should always be the appropriate reaction really.. fuck the form factor, new cells and fuck it, just like new! But unfortunately companies don't always agree :/

(I tested this shaver another time with that cell and got it working btw.. so the "fuck you Remington and your shitty planned obsolescence!! I beat ya cunts!!!" still holds! :3)
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EmberQuill

3643

6y

My razor runs on AAs, which is pretty nice. I miss being able to easily replace batteries in some devices.
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endor

5662

6y

Maybe the original battery is so shitty that the voltage drops massively as soon as you apply a load, thus triggering the overdischarge protection? (Not that it's an excuse, but it might explain what's happening when you try to measure its voltage)
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nvzard

160

6y

I bought this Phillips trimmer qt4011 and after 2 months of use it started discharging within a minute of full charge.
I went to the service centre and the guy opened it up and said that the circuit is shot due to contact with water, hence the quick discharging of battery.

Since water was involved the guy fucking refused to fix it under warranty and wanted to me pay 75% of the original market price as he'd have to change the whole board.

Fucking shit, I felt like I'm being conned since I don't know much about circuits and electronics and refused his offer. Now my trimmer doesn't charge and I have to use it while it's plugged in the power socket.
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Condor

32327

6y

@nvzard that guy is a fucking Genius! Not in the positive way, the guy's a fucking Crapple Genius Bar level idiot. Water damage can short the battery, sure. But the contacts are miles away from each other! Unless it was completely submerged and consequently blew up, fuck it! What's the worst that could happen.. battery shorts and blows up, that's a problem. Controller could short, overheat and let out the magic smoke out, sure and that'd also be a problem. Solution: replace the fucking component, not the entire board you Genius twat! At least that's what I would say to them, or rather, actually do myself. And not only that, how does a BATTERY that doesn't hold a charge require replacement of the MOTHERBOARD?!! Cheeky little service center twat.

Considering that the thing still works but doesn't hold a charge, I suspect that the battery is the problem. Those things are easily replaceable, so fuck it. I mean sure if it's a li-ion cell of 18650 or 16500 type it usually involves spot welding some nickel tabs on and soldering those into the board, but still.. it isn't very costly and it costs like 15 minutes of labor at most?

Please don't service the thing yourself if you don't know what you're doing (lithium cells can blow up when handled improperly), but what I can say is that if the repair costs more than like €20, for me at least that shit ain't gonna fly, not for a simple razor.

That said, water damage is usually not covered under warranty so of course a repair of that isn't free. And it's a human labour so it is expensive compared to the work of the machines that make the units.

Finally, please don't use water near electronics _/\_ it's a reasonably good conductor so it risks shorting stuff, but it also corrodes contacts. If the board and the components aren't conformally coated, water ingress can easily damage the electronics inside.
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Linux

43477

6y

Solution: dont shave

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