Flume Water Monitor Custom Replacement Battery

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8 ай бұрын

Replacing the proprietary Flume battery with generic lithium AA batteries. Simple custom battery replacement.
Here are the parts.
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@wakkywizard 5 ай бұрын

Just installed battery packs and ultimate lithium batteries as you showed in the video. Works great. Will be much easier to replace batteries in the future....no waiting on mail and get away from proprietary battery. Thanks so much for the video.

@TexasCanuck 2 ай бұрын

Great Video! I kept the old cases from the original flume, it lets you swap out the AA batteries.

@robertmooberry725 Ай бұрын

Thanks for the video!. Mine got waterlogged after about 7 months. The battery totally corroded. I'll do your battery replacement, clean it up, and give it another try. My seal is black and thinner than yours. It also doesn't have the pins on the upper right. I'll rub the seal with a little motor oil and maybe it will swell a bit to seal better. Hopefully it will work. When it worked it was great! I've had trouble with the bridge disconnecting from my wifi I'm using 2 Asus Zen Wifi routers in a mesh. I'm debating changed the node to act independently and just assigning some of the wireless load to it. Some of my stuff seems to not want to play or play nicely with the node.

@rbrother 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video, I just did the same thing. When I bought my second battery Flume sent me one of the older open carriers so I could replace the batteries in that one and only had to solder in one like you did.

@DRBones811 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for this. Couldn't agree more with you on the use of a proprietary battery.

@desertrat888 5 ай бұрын

I removed the 4 Torx screws and the plastic keeper, but the board won't lift out. Any hints? Thanks.

@wakkywizard 5 ай бұрын

It will come out. Put a small screwdriver between the board and the side of case. Gently wiggle screwdriver in several places. keep working it until it breaks free. Nothing else is holding it in place.

@mariosagas 2 ай бұрын

Anyone has the link to buy the battery holder?

@mechtrician1 2 ай бұрын

The links for parts are in the description

@melrobinson6919 8 ай бұрын

I'm equally annoyed at this costly proprietary battery arrangement. How has your mod worked out so far?

@mechtrician1 8 ай бұрын

So far it’s working great. Yes it really pissed me off.

@melrobinson6919 8 ай бұрын

@mechtrician1 Great.... I'm doing your mod as soon as the battery boxes I ordered arrive. Appreciate your vid!

@melrobinson6919 7 ай бұрын

@@mechtrician1 I finally got the AA battery holders I ordered from Amazon, after having been shipped the wrong size from other sources twice. I was only able to fit 3 of the holders inside without potentially compromising the water tight seal, so I have 3 sets of 3v battery packs. Seems to have recalibrated just fine and is reporting through the app as it should. Hope to get 18 months out of these new batteries. Thanks again.

@abc123fhdi 7 ай бұрын

got mine for $25 after rebate and included a second battery. There are silica packets that come in the battery compartment but it looks like you don't have them in there and it works fine, stayed dry. Since your battery setup takes up all the available space. they say to use their battery to get the best connection if your meter is far from our home. the proprietary pack costs $20 but that's only for 1 pack so you saved about $20 making the equivalent of two packs for $20.

@melrobinson6919 6 ай бұрын

@abc123fhdi So looking at the cells Flume has inside of their battery packs, they appear to be no name, possibly Chinese junk cells. I soldered the battery packs I bought to the battery terminals... No way would soldered connections be inferior to no-soldered connections as their batteries employ. Only time will tell.😮