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Motorola XTS 5000 battery hack
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Drachen_Fire
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It's not too hard, especially to make an eliminator. All you have to do is empty the cells out of the battery, get a proper stepdown converter board and glue it in place, hook the output wires to the terminals, and solder a 12VDC lighter cord to the input side. Epoxy it shut, and you're in business.
Is there a proper way without tearing up the casing to split it in half ? Seeing how the cells are dead...maybe in a oven for 5min at 300°
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I wouldn't resort to baking the battery. I would say a very careful prying at the seams.
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Your 'stepdown converter board' should will actually be a 7.5V DC voltage regulator IC circuit. Look for them on Mouser, DigiKey, etc. Make sure it is rated to enough current (perhaps up to 3A if you're going to transmit with it) and has enough heat dissipation to handle that amount of current. Adding a heat sink isn't a bad idea for something like this.
As was suggested, prying would be the best bet to get it apart. Look for where the case is glued together and go after it there with a smaller screwdriver. It's not going to be a pretty process, so don't worry too much about keeping it looking perfect...but you should be able to get it apart without totally screwing the case up.
As was suggested, prying would be the best bet to get it apart. Look for where the case is glued together and go after it there with a smaller screwdriver. It's not going to be a pretty process, so don't worry too much about keeping it looking perfect...but you should be able to get it apart without totally screwing the case up.
Get the battery cold by first freezing it and while still cold hit lightly around the seams with a rubber hammer/mallet. This typically starts the seams to break apart after which you may need to pry it further apart with small flat blade screw driver.
OK. I stuck it in my deep freezer for a few hours..just took it out and dropped it and slammed it on the tile floor a few times the glue is making popping sounds. I'm going to put it in a metal can of liquid nitrogen tomorrow@ work for a few minutes that should work lol of course don't want to drop it or it will shatter like the bad guy in terminator II. I want to break down the glue before I pry it apart as I want to have a pretty housing
LN2 might be too extreme for this effort. I would suggest putting in a little labor, instead of cryogenics.
You are going to end up with battery dust.
Shoulda took a video or photo but couldn't, no phones allowed. Yup I left if it a tank for 5hours there is nothing but a mess now. Haha fun times
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