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NanoVNA H Battery Failure
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Күн бұрынIn this video, we replace an damaged Lithium Battery in a NanoVNA H, it's the original NanoVNA and it's about three years old.
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@mcgrath16511 Жыл бұрын
in our household i have a saying.. "it's already 'effed up, i cant make it worse!" if its broke you have nothing to lose, nice video.. its tuff to buy factory smoke anymore!
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
Lol, agreed. Thanks for watching 👍
@zingodingo2816 Жыл бұрын
One big, nice thing about How-To vids is that 'we' see that 'it' is a problem for others, too; and, that it is fixable. Dang, sigh of relief. I thought I'd do a little switch of technique and just cut and re-solder the connecting wires and not solder on the board itself. Thanks for the vid.
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
Thanks Zingo, glad you got it sorted 👍
@migsvensurfing6310 4 ай бұрын
To be safer, solder a resistor to the battery when disconnected from the unit and wait until the battery is fully discharged, then remove it You are going to discard it anyway and it is then safe for the recycling plant to handle. I am not even going to mention the placement of the wires on the soldering pads neither the dabbing several times with the soldering iron to risk cold soldier joints. 😄 Just get a course on how to solder. Else a good video. Thank you.
@AD6DMDennis Жыл бұрын
Good transplant. Janky tape has fixed so many things in my life.
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
Janky tape is the best tape...
@deankq4adj125 Жыл бұрын
Well done Ape! Glad you didn't have to battle the "smoke".
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
Haha, thanks for watching Dean 👍
@HOAHamRadio Жыл бұрын
Of course it worked! I didn't have a single doubt!
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
LOL, I was expecting some goofy curve ball out of left field!
@drocles Жыл бұрын
I replaced both the sma connections, they were getting worn out. If you try it, i recomend chopping them up with a dremal first, much easier and less heat input to remove the 5 pins individually then the whole connector. I almost ripped off the traces
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
That’s a good tip 👍
@RadioJimProductions 6 ай бұрын
Even better, get pair of male-to-female SMA adapters to use as connector savers. Leave them permanently attached and replace them when they get worn out.
@FEPLabsRadio Жыл бұрын
That looks like a LiPo battery. Good work!
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
Thanks FEP 👍
@Tump2010 Жыл бұрын
Disappointed that there was no smoke... 😀 You should have discharged the battery first to make it safer. Good video
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
Everyone likes the smoke show!
@theadvacedelectronicsstudi8069 10 ай бұрын
No
@KK6USYHamRadioAdventures Жыл бұрын
Glad you decided to fix it, great job!
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
Thanks 👍
@ronwolenski-n8wcr Жыл бұрын
Nice easy job!
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
Yes it was!
@ShooterReadyStandBy Жыл бұрын
That's a solder bridge you don't want to make. Nice fix.
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
LOL, right!
@phillyedhrj Жыл бұрын
Great job!
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
Thanks Ed 👍
@PerHedetun Жыл бұрын
Almost played into the Hollwood action movie trope, with the careful wire cutting there. 😃 Directed by Michael Bay?
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
Haha, thanks for checking it out 👍
@bassangler73 Жыл бұрын
Glad you got it fixed!
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
Me too. Thanks for watching BA 👍
@45auto Жыл бұрын
Seeing the magic smoke come out is always entertaining...when it's someone else's equipment.😊
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
Right, lol 👍
@k9bob Жыл бұрын
Solder flux is you friend...you need to use it next time. 🙃
@KS0JD Жыл бұрын
Those batteries look similar to one of the first drones I bought years back. I probably need to go back and check the batteries to make sure they are not bloated. I know I hand a couple of batteries for one of my Nikon cameras bloat. it made it a pain to get it out of the camera. Now I keep them out unless I am using the camera. 73
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
Bloating batteries sucks...
@KS0JD Жыл бұрын
@@TheSmokinApe Better to bloat than blow up or catch fire ;-) 73
@Ressy66 Жыл бұрын
trick: isopropyl alcohol, and a small syringe, dispense tiny squirts at a time - dissolves the glue, battery just falls away :)
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
That's a good tip!
@kevinkc3onohelijeepworld953 Жыл бұрын
Reason it puffed is from leaving it stored at full charge. I think the nano vna guy could write sum code to auto balance to storage voltage 3.7v. Leaving it full makes the dendrites form and crystallize on the anode and short across to cathode internally 😉
@kevinkc3onohelijeepworld953 Жыл бұрын
Ps lots of info on lipo batts are battery university online
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
That could have been it...
@kevinkc3onohelijeepworld953 Жыл бұрын
@@TheSmokinApe most common failure of lipo so much stored energy it does t like not being used. Maybe we can convince the software guy to write a few more lines of code to help preserve batt life ?
@joeshmoe7899 8 ай бұрын
But, doesn't voltage decrease over time while in storage?
@RadioJimProductions 6 ай бұрын
If the unit is going to be stored for some time the battery should be discharged to 50% and disconnected. There is a small but finite current drain even when the VNA is switched off. Lithium based batteries do not like to be completely drained and this will damage them. Ask anyone who has tossed their iPod in a drawer for a few months and later found the battery to have failed. if you only use it infrequently and you don't want to go to the trouble to disconnect the battery then the unit should be periodically maintenance charged to keep the battery from draining completely.
@subramanianr7206 Жыл бұрын
My original one had the same issue and I replaced it with a larger but thin enough battery; it is working well. You could have done the soldering of the wire tips to pads on the PCB bit more elegantly. De VU2RZA
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
Thanks for checking it out Subramanian 👍
@propagating-radio Жыл бұрын
My battery started swelling up recently also. Enough so that it was putting pressure on the circuit board and causing issues.
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
Did you replace it?
@propagating-radio Жыл бұрын
@@TheSmokinApe not yet. I removed it and am using the USB port for power for now.
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
@@propagating-radio gotcha
@phillyedhrj Жыл бұрын
The removal of the battery was sped up to hide the cussing. 😉
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
Indeed
@ChrisdeHaan Жыл бұрын
My H4 now has a bad touch panel
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
That sucks, I assume you are part the return window? Maybe you can swap it out?
@ChrisdeHaan Жыл бұрын
@@TheSmokinApe nope unfortunately not but NanoVNA saver works fine for now. I’ll pickup another one some time
@503Nick Жыл бұрын
🔋 💥
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
👍
@andrewgilbertson4226 Жыл бұрын
Watching you solder the negative wire without putting a little electrical tape over the positive pad:😬😬😬😬😬
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
I've got the hands of a surgeon 👍
@kittony71 11 ай бұрын
poor soldering
@LeeMcc_KI5YPR Жыл бұрын
Ummmm.....I would have been wearing safety glasses. Just sayin'
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
Fair point 👍
@pen25 Жыл бұрын
a little ipa(isopropyl ) always works
@TheSmokinApe Жыл бұрын
Good call Phillip 👍