From 80a82205b502a56ba6a9a3b96c5065e6f1d9ff9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bdale Garbee Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 01:40:50 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] more text --- Documents/FixBattery/index.mdwn | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documents/FixBattery/index.mdwn b/Documents/FixBattery/index.mdwn index 48e9302..1566946 100644 --- a/Documents/FixBattery/index.mdwn +++ b/Documents/FixBattery/index.mdwn @@ -33,11 +33,34 @@ material is good, so try not to tear it off as you're peeling it up: + +## Removing the Protection Board ## + +At this point, the wire connections and circuit board are exposed. There are +two options at this point. One is to leave the circuit board installed, but +move the wires to the circuit board pads that connect to the battery, which +effectively takes the board out of circuit. In some cases, this may be easier +than removing the board entirely... but leaving the board behind doesn't +really help anything, so we'll take the other option which is to remove it +entirely. To do this, just warm up a soldering iron and use tweezers or small +needle-nose pliers to pull the wires and tabs away from the board while using +the soldering iron to melt the solder on each of the 4 joints. Once the +board is removed, the battery should look something like this: - - + +Now, use the soldering iron to tack the wires onto the battery +terminal tabs. Since the tabs and the wires are all pre-soldered, you don't +really need flux here, though if the tabs look dry adding a little solder +to them before trying to tack the wires on may be helpful. Note that on the +larger cell, we've soldered the wires on heading towards the center so that +we can bend them out together. This will make insulating the terminals +easier: + + + + -- 2.30.2