This procedure worked on my battery as well! Thanks! One note for all the people trying to do this, there are two decoy plastic screws on the lid that appear like they're holding the lid down but they don't actually do anything. If you try to use a screw driver on them it strips the heads. They're the two on the top of the battery closest to the middle.
Another success story here. My battery was totally flat so bridging the two holes didn't work. I happened to have some alligator clip wire connectors among all my clutter. I fished those out and used them to connect the Godox charger to the battery terminals. The outside of the plug is negative. The inside I pushed a paper clip into. It's positive. Connected an alligator clamp to the paper clip. Touched the other end of the alligator connectors to the battery. Pos to pos. Neg to neg. Needed about a minute to charge a little/ enough. Reset the battery as shown in this video... connect the two holes by tweezers or paperclip. Pugged in the charger and voila.... $200 saved. Thanks so much.
Thanks! This video saved me from spending $180 on a new battery. My AD600 Pro's battery had been sitting unused for a couple years. So when I plugged it into the charger yesterday, it was completely dead and wouldn't charge. I tried bridging the two holes with a paperclip to reset the battery. No luck. It still wouldn't charge. I was close to giving up and ordering a new battery on Amazon. After reading some of the comments suggesting to jump start the battery, I went to Home Depot this morning and bought a 12V automatic battery charger for $15. It has small alligator clips on the positive/negative leads. I connected the positive and negative alligator clips of the 12V charger to the positive & negative terminals inside the WB26 battery and plugged the charger into the wall outlet for 5 minutes to give the battery some charge. Disconnected the charger's alligator clips and used the paperclip to bridge the two holes. When I connected the WB26 battery to the charger, it finally started charging!
Just want to let everybody that has the same problem know that you can use any battery to give the godox battery a bit of juice so the original charger recognises the battery again. You don't need to buy a power supply! Just cut some wire from any old cable and connect the plus to the plus and minus to the minus between the batteries just like you would when jump starting a car battery. Only needs to be done for a minute and than hit the reset like the guy in the video does with the tweezers and plug the charger back in. If it doesnt work try a battery with a higher voltage! Hope this helps anyone like me who didn't want to buy a power supply!
You sir ARE A LEGEND! I was considering buying a power supply on the side which I really didn't need and your comment saved me a chunk of money... battery happy charging by my side!
Thanks for the video. Here are some written explanations. First case: you bridge the 2 holes, if you can charge again, you are all set Second case: after bridging the 2 holes, charging still does not work. You need a DC Power Supply (less than 60€ on Amazon, and if you have several batteries and flashes as I have, it is a useful investment), you will need to tune the power supply at about 25 Volt and 1 Amp. Putting + on + and - on -, charge the battery with the power supply during about 10 seconds. Bridge the 2 holes. If charging does sill does not work, repeat charging 10 seconds another time. Bridge the 2 holes. The Godox charger may first show only 1 light, then charging will start. If all this does not work, you may need another battery.
question about bridging those holes. are those not ESD tweezers? wouldn't that prevent an actual bridge? or is it just a couple buttons underneath there that need to be depressed?
@@guylarsonphotography8221 I have written "bridge", and never mentioned any button, it means short circuit. An ESD tweezer protects the person who holds it, but is generally made of one piece of metal covered with protection except the ends, so bridging is done.
Do you know if the procedure should be repeated after each discharge - or once is sufficient (meaning, the batteries will work flawlessly for many years on end after first shorting)? Thank you.
@@LeoInterHyenaem I have used the procedure twice on 2 different batteries, and only because they could not be charged anymore. After that, they could be charged several time. There seem to be a kind of bug on these batteries when they are discharged too much when not recharged immediately after discharge.
@@ThierryNkaoua Thank you. So, if I understand it right, the likelihood of an occasional need to short the batteries after a full discharge is fairly high? It is mindboggling that despite the fundamental flaw with these batteries, TH-cam reviewers, without exception, wax lyrical about them. It's fairly obvious to me that Godox must be rewarding them for the overtly brazen promotion of their products. While Robert Hall, whose videos revolve around Godox lights for the most part, has been handily ignoring critical comments on Godox batteries, 3 other video reviewers, claiming lack of bias, would go so far as to deride disgruntled users and post videos laying the blame with users, apparently too daft to understand that batteries, including Godox ones "should never be discharged past a certain limit" and other like nonsense. Imagine Tesla batteries give up the ghost after the first discharge, then Tesla issuing a notice, dissing customers on the account of failure to keep the batteries charged at all times! I've endlessly attempted to get hold of Godox to resolve the issue, but to no avail. Idem, the chinese retailer I ordered my lights from: they'll just ignore you.
I am over the moon - watched this video a hundred times - bought a multi tool or whatever it is called, a bench power supply and YES it worked like a charm. This video is priceless. Thank you very much.
I own four of these batteries and 2 head units. Seeing this video got me excited to save my brand new batteries, and NOT spend another $800! I was able to get the first battery to charging simply by touching a paperclip to both of the gold pins. The other three didn't work, however, reading through ALL of the comments here, really helped! I was a bit bummed when the others didn't fire up... but modifying a comment I read in this thread really helped me! I used a motorcycle/jetski (1.5Amp "trickle") battery charger to aid in 'manually charging' the batteries enough for the 'flashing' of the motherboard, via touching a single piece of metal to the little round gold holes. I don't have a "Battery Tender Jr.," like one commenter did... but I used a similar device. I pulled all the screws out of the back, save the two inner top screws; that too was a great tip from someone here! I then put the negative from the 1.5 amp battery trickle charger to the larger square metal pad with the "-" above it. I put the positive lead from the trickle charger to the "+". I held both on the terminals simultaneously for about 10 seconds. I then used a paperclip. I put the same paper clip with one end in each of the gold tiny holes, squeezed together and lifted it out. Plugged the battery into the original charger, and VIOLA! It started charging! I too was baffled by what I was seeing in the video... but through the help of so many here, figured it out! I did decide to purchase a charger from Amazon... I have so many batteries for my still and cinema cameras that sit on the shelf for long periods of time, that I thought it might come in handy in the future! $70 for this device is probably a good investment! www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JQXQ8S5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Awesome, worked for me with just the tweezers. Initially there is just a solid green light, but after leaving it plugged in for 10 minutes, the charging sequence lights sprang into life! Thank you so much for sharing this.
Worked for me too. My battery had a read wire soldered to the point on the left. Still worked to bridge the two points with tweezers and reset the bms. Nice one. Legend. I didnt realise these were prone to so much spontaneous discharge.
Which two points? The main large terminals marked + and - or the two small holes where he inserts the tweezers. If the latter, why didn’t the guy in the video do that?
omg after watching so many tutorials this one actually worked!! Its important to connect the cables for like 5 seconds and then do the reset with the tweezers - IN THIS ORDRED. Thank you!!
@@jimmythegent9190 It definitely did. Basically you can't drain lithium batteries too low, so a safety feature is to just disconnect them once they're depleted enough. Shorting the contacts resets the safety feature so you can begin charging again.
Worked brilliantly on two flat Flashpoint XPLOR600/Godox AD600 studio light batteries. In both cases, I was able to jump-start them using a third battery, the 20V rechargeable battery from my power drill, as the DC power source. Clipped leads to the positive and negative terminals of the drill battery, held the other ends to the contacts on the studio light battery as shown in the video for about four or five minutes, touched the two contacts with a fine-point tweezer, plugged in the charger, and voilà! Both batteries charged to 100% after a couple of hours. Many, many thanks!
Worked perfectly. Both of my batteries had been sitting idle for over a year and were down to about 6v each when tested with a volt meter. Invested in a bench charger from Amazon for $70 and followed the steps in the video. Both batteries are now working fine. Definitely beat having to pay $180 x 2 for new batteries. Thank you.
WooHooo! Worked on my 600PRO TTL battery. All I did was about 3 seconds on the first step of connecting those two holes/contacts, using both ends of one of the lead wires from my volt/ohm meter. Plugged in the charger and instantly had a single green LED (previously nothing, even after 12 hrs connected to charger). It took another 10-15 minutes and the single solid LED started the usual charging sequence (as shown near the end of this video). Last time I used this battery was an August wedding. I had used a pair of 600s for family/group shots, the battery had been exhausted, set aside for charging, then forgotten about for four months. My sessions have been reduced due to the virus and I used the smaller ad200 units for those, never opening the case on the 600s until yesterday, Dec 17. I've learned my lesson! I want to express my gratitude to the poster, and to those that added helpful suggestions in the comments.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! It took me a minute to realize you are touching both points with the tweezer, but once I got that it worked beautifully! I bet there are many of these trashed that could have been saved.
This totally works! I revived my battery with a Jump Starter/portable power bank that I bought at Costco with the intent to use it when and if my car battery needed a jump. I had to get a little creative as the clamps of the power bank could not touch the metal on the battery so I used two bobby pins so that the current could go thru them and so that they could touch the metal. I did it couple of times and then I got a solid green light. I thought it had not worked but I left the charger on and the battery plugged and then checked again about 20 to 30 min later and to my surprise the battery was charging. It charged completely after a couple of hours and then I tested my light and it totally worked. Thank you for the tip. I was about to toss my battery and get a replacement. I may still get a second battery just to have extra power.
Thank you, I followed what you did but used a Stanley battery charger on 12v and manually charged for about 1 minute and I now have a solid green light for one bar. I'll check back in 30 minutes and hopefully it will be charging! Edit: 20 minutes later and it is charging. Thanks Again!
Vielen Dank aus Deutschland hat mir sofort geholfen, braucht nicht einmal direkt nachladen. Ging gleich nach dem Reset los. Erst stand der erste grüne Balken nach ca. 10 Min fing die Ladeanzeige an zu laufen. Super! Aber sowas darf doch nicht vorkommen. Alle alten Lithium Ionen Akkus lassen sich nachladen, auch wenn sie tiefenentladen sind, z.B. Sony Kameras, Handys etc. so eine Blockade gibt es dort nicht. Abgesehen das verschlissene Akkus sich schnell wieder selbstentladen. Aber der Godox Akku war unbenutzt und nagelneu! 166€ wären sonst verbrannt.
It worked I think!!! I literally used the spring of a pen to push the two holes in. Right after the charger started showing a green light again, also the battery status indicator on the battery itself shows one light again. Wow!!! Simply amazing!
MY GUY!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS! Literally saved my wife's shoot later this afternoon! Our model is the Flashpoint Xplor 600 R2 Pro TTL. For those who are looking for assistance, I removed the six main screws from the battery, the two other "different" screws stay attached. My resting voltage was 13.9v, so it wasn't completely flat. Fortunately just the first step worked for me, kind of like "clearing cmos" on a pc I guess. I used tweezers to jump the two connections shown in this video, then tried the charger and, AWESOME!, it worked!! I was prepared to give a voltage boost from one of my cordless power tool batteries, but luckily, I didn't have too. Thank you again to the individual in this video, you have helped save another battery/photo shoot! It is currently charging as I type this out, and my wife is grateful of this, good on you!
I haven't used my battery for 2 years, so I believe my voltage is close to 0 😅 I've tried the 1st step, but no luck. I have 0 experience with this kinda of thing; do you know which is the easiest/cheapest way to give a voltage boost to the battery? Thank you!
@@alessandrocarpentiero3610 Your first step should be to check the current battery voltage level using a volt meter, don't assume what it might be. It would be irresponsible of me to try to explain a voltage boost attempt not knowing how mechanically inclined you are. Batteries that are just below the voltage of what the charger will recognize as a safe level can be temporarily "charged" or "boosted" to increase the resting voltage so that the actual charger will proceed as normal. However, if your battery pack is severely discharged, it would be very dangerous to recover by manually forcing a charge to the dead battery (it would create a tremendous amount of heat in each the cells making up the battery pack). I would ask someone locally to have a look at the battery in question, possibly one of those electronics fix it places, a "Batteries Plus" store or similar. Best of luck, and please be safe!
This 100% works. My wife's 2 batteries would not charge. I opened them up and using a pin in each hole (I didnt have tweezers), which I touched together, I plugged one of the batteries in and it started charging again! I repeated the process on the other battery and same result, it works! Thank you so much!
It worked. Note that on taking off the back of the battery there are two dummy plastic screws that you don't need to try and unscrew. I bridged the two holes indicated for a few seconds without the charger connected and upon reconnecting the charger (no longer bridging) I had one green bar. I left it for 10 minutes of so and the charger started indicating charging (chasing green lights), I didn't need to try and charge a little first - apparently I had a tiny bit left. If you do, you just keep two contacts ( large metal foil contacts), + & - on the battery, for a few minutes. I note that some, in such case, have used a 1.5 amp trickle charger. I'm not knowledgeable about this but it seemed to work for them. Good Luck!
It worked for me!!! thank you so much. My battery died during a shoot last December 2019 and when I went home I forgot to charge it. Then we traveled abroad and when we arrived back home I totally forgot about it. Then came the lockdown, I wasn’t able to charge it for like 6 months. We should remember to charge it once in a while when not in use to prevent it from completely draining so we won’t need to reset it. I’m really glad I found this video! I was about to order a new battery.
did you just bring the voltage up and plug in the standard charger, whereafter it worked as normal? Or did you have to reset the BMS by shorting? if so, what did you short? which 2 holes?
I was seriously planning to buy a couple of AD600 lights. But after seeing all of the videos and articles demonstrating how you have to baby the batteries, I've decided to stick with my current lights. As a commercial photographer, I have enough to worry about without worrying about the batteries all the time. I have lots of equipment from other brands using lithium batteries that work fine without the need for tweezers.
You only have to do this if you don't use the battery for a prolonged period of time. The BMS (battery management system) has a parasitic drain which over discharges the batteries and then the BMS doesn't recognise and stops charging. This won't be a problem if you are always charging it. And since you're a pro. Shouldn't be an issue.
HEROIC!!!!!!! GENIUS!!!!! Thank you for taking the time to put this up!!!! Incase anyone is confused, what you want to do is short the two contacts together. THANK YOU!!!!!
@@carlvidnic9454 Thanks a lot Carl. Mine was brand new. It had never received charge before and am sure had been lying on the shelf for a very longtime. I did the resetting process as you explained and had to use my 12v Booster unit to jump start it. After that I got one constant green light and after about ten minutes it sprang into charging... Out of the box it was just a red light showing. Thanks a lot Mate. You really saved me. I salute You😇
Can you explain to me your process. Pllleeaasssee!!!!! I have 2! Dead in the water... I dont have the contraptions that his person has. You could even email it to me. mrtoofly84 AT GMAIL DOT COM .... thats if this message finds you well [
I just want to say as someone having 2 replacement batteries from Adorama.. this WORKED!! take the tweezers and just like 8 sec mark push down on that contact with a bit of force.
Quick explanation of the video: The two holes are to reset the battery. If it's not charging try that first. If that doesn't work the voltage on the battery is too low to reset so you'll need to manually charge the cells a bit first. You can see in the video this being done with a bench power supply. You can also do it with the godox charger if you stick some wire into the charging pin. Once you've got the cells above about 12V you should be able to use the reset pin and charge normally.
Thank you. I followed this, including instructional comments from others and it worked perfectly. I had to buy the power supply but well worth it - I have had 3 of these batteries do the same thing so it's great! Very much appreciated.
Another note, I successfully revived 2 x WB29 batteries for Godox AD200 using the same power supply just by charging up via the external battery terminals. Saved a lot of money for me. I have noticed these Godox batteries all last well when kept connected to the flash but all seem to go dead when left off the flash.
@@RajanKannan11 I have no idea sorry... I just followed the procedure above - the power supply cost less than a new battery so it was worth it and so far it saved 6 Godox batteries for me - AD600Pro, AD400Pro and AD200
@@richarddodson1562 I heard they are suppose to be stored off the light. Mine died while being on the light. Speculation is the light draws a small amount of power while resting.
Thank You for this very useful video. Due to the angle of the camera, I first did not realize you used the tweezer to connect the two points. I thought one hole contained a reset switch of some sort. I have to connect the two points several times before it started to recharge again. Before each connection, I disconnected the power. The first 3 times, I got only one solid green light. After repeating the process a few more times, the 4 green lights started to scroll indicating charging in progress. Thank You very much!! A replacement battery in the UK is £170.
In case it happens again, there is no need to do multiple resets, once you get the one green LED lighting up. It just takes the charger a while to charge the battery to a voltage threshold with which it then can charge it normally.
Thank you very much, I would have bought another battery thinking the one i own had gone bad. Its working again with the help of this video. thanks once again.
Thank you for this video! My AD600 pro battery was totally dead, so it did not respond to the bridge reset which I tried a few times. The AD600 Pro has slightly different circuitry, so I was not sure if that was the issue. Since the cover was off, I tried connecting my 12V “battery tender junior” trickle charger using the flat circular connectors. I bent the connectors slightly and held them against the corresponding (+ -) AD600 leads for two quick sessions of about 10 seconds each (the battery tender junior comes with two charging adaptors that plug into the wall unit). I did notice the AD600 battery making a distinct charging sound during the connection. After the second session, the AD600 pro battery came back to life and was able to reach a full charge. Thanks again for the video! Also thanks to the guy who alerted to the two fake screws - it’s crazy GodOx used fake screws to void the warranty! Just tap the screws and you can find the plastic ones in the center.
Thank you! It definitely worked on mine. Didn't need the bench power supply. I had to let the charger to charge for a while for it start to show that it's charging. Now my battery works like a charm!
So did you just use the tweezers and there was no light, but you kept it plugged in, and it eventually charged? Or was there a green light after you plugged back in?
This just actually worked for me and a XPLOR 600 PRO Battery. It wasn't charging after a year in storage. A) Avoid the top middle decoy screws. B) Unscrew the 6 others. C) Place tweezer ends exactly where this dude in the video is placing them (6 sec mark in video) That's all I needed to do.
Thanks for the post... I have four batteries! (two had one charge cycle, the other 2 are BRAND NEW, never out of the box!) I was so excited when the first one worked! It came back to life! However, the other 3 didn't seem to work. Any idea as to why? I took the shell completely off... What is the goal to have the same piece of metal touch both gold contacts/circles? Or do you need to puncture the red wrapping on the actual cell?
Muchísimas gracias por tu aportación. Estaba resignado a comprar una batería nueva porque la di por muerta, pero gracias a usted, he conseguido reanimarla y que comience a cargar!! Muchas muchas gracias !! Un saludo desde España.
For those with AD200 batteries that can't be opened: I managed to revive a dead AD200. Same issue: red light, no green lights. I kept it on the charger (plugged in) for 1 and a half days and eventually the green lights came on and now it's at 100%. I think there's a small current going throught the charger that will slowly bring the battery back from deep sleep. I read about it in a TH-cam comment on a video with dead Godox batteries. The guy had to leave it charging for almost a week :)
can u describe what u exactly done ? connect only the 2 contacts? or is it necessary to put a specific voltage on the other 2 contacts? thanks for showing!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for this great video! Step 1 did it for me; I just bridged the two holes with tweezers and I’m charging away. I guess I still had enough voltage; just needed to wake it up. Crisis averted!
I had a dead battery for AD400Pro and just received a newly purchased one. Thanks for your video, the dead battery can now be charged again and I’ll get the AC adapter instead.
Muchas gracias desde España!!! ... Thank you too much from Spain!! My battery is newer than this, I don't have the 2 holes and need a tweezer to press, is a SMALL WHITE BOTTON!!! And I have luck because I don't have to charge, I think I don't use the flash for about 4 months... wow, I was really scare because there is no Technical support in Spain. THANKS AGAIN!!!
@@BETODETHRANDOM Los agujeros que se ven en el vídeo yo no los tengo, están como soldados a un botoncito blanco presionable, que hace una especie de reset... si ves este vídeo de TH-cam cuando presiona esos 2 agujeros en el mío es un botoncito blanco, ya lo he tenido que hacer 2 veces por pasar demasiado tiempo sin usar
@@vyztor me podrías ayudar amigo a dónde está ubicado el botón? Yo no lo tengo y no lo encuentro ya no se que hacer porque no senresetea mi batería es la WB87
same here..amazing i was just lookng at prices of batteries was 180 a piece... so damn glad this worked... my batteries are now charge fully and working.. after now been used doing this no photoshoot covid19 times
my ad600 pro battery looks different? WB26, but it does not have the reset wholes? instead there is like a button in that place? I tried pressing that in more ways and it does not power up the main unit?
Ho comprato un flash Godox Ad600pro, appena arrivato ho fatto uno scatto di prova e funzionava. Ho ripreso il flash dopo 4 mesi ed ho trovato la batteria morta. Mi sono rovinato il fegato con chi me l'aveva venduta (E_Global) per chiederne la sostituzione, ma senza risultato, perchè mi hanno dichiarato che le batterie non sono coperte da garanzia... Ho comprato allora una nuova batteria da un'altra parte, ma anche questa non funzionava. Fortunatamente però, il rivenditore (Minfo PT) mi ha ridato i soldi. Non volendo ripetere una terza esperienza negativa sono andato allora su internet per cercare spiegazioni al problema della mia batteria WB 26 ed ho trovato il link per arrivare qui. Ho seguito le istruzioni e la batteria originaria adesso funziona perfettamente ed una carica dura tantissimo. Per prudenza comunque ogni tanto controllo i led luminosi. Grazie Fomito ! ti sono debitore ;-)
Muchas gracias me funciono de esta forma.. 1-: mantener presionado por 10 segundo el primer agujero, va aprender la primera luz verde sin parpadear 2: vuelve a presionar los dos agujero al mismo tiempo por 10 segundo y eso hará que la luz parpadee... thank you so much ;)
Thank you so much friend, I also fixed sleep mode problem of my Godoxpro 600 aftter watching your video, otherwise i was about to purchase a new battery...:)
Do you charge battery cell at 0.45 - 0.50 sec of the video? How do you charge the battery? Can we use regular car battery charger to jump start the AD600 battery? Thanks,
The voltage of my batteries was too low (4,5 V) so only triggering the safety mechanism was not enough. I don't have DC Power supply, so I made my own. DIY DC Power Supply: Two 9 V batteries connected in series worked for me. 15 - 16 V was enough to get a green light after triggering the safety mechanism. Took a few minutes before the green lights started flashing.
How does this work for some battery’s and not all. All this did for mine was turn on two green led lights which stayed on till the morning. Battery will not charge. Godox need to be made accountable only used the dam light 2 times before lockdown no idea it would mess up by discharging as that is something these type of batteries are not supposed to do.
Hello. Great review! Unfortunately I had some problems with my ad600pro. After updating the firmware to 1.5, the Flash always activates the cooling fans at maximum power despite having the pilot lamp off. I am looking for the old firmware 1.3 or earlier to try the down grade. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks
This procedure worked on my battery as well! Thanks! One note for all the people trying to do this, there are two decoy plastic screws on the lid that appear like they're holding the lid down but they don't actually do anything. If you try to use a screw driver on them it strips the heads. They're the two on the top of the battery closest to the middle.
Thanks for the heads up on the decoy screws!!!
Yeah, apparently sb forgot to remove them from the CAD, or nobody cared^^
@@michi386 I would guess, this is an intrusion detection to void warranty. ;)
Another success story here. My battery was totally flat so bridging the two holes didn't work. I happened to have some alligator clip wire connectors among all my clutter. I fished those out and used them to connect the Godox charger to the battery terminals. The outside of the plug is negative. The inside I pushed a paper clip into. It's positive. Connected an alligator clamp to the paper clip. Touched the other end of the alligator connectors to the battery. Pos to pos. Neg to neg. Needed about a minute to charge a little/ enough. Reset the battery as shown in this video... connect the two holes by tweezers or paperclip. Pugged in the charger and voila.... $200 saved. Thanks so much.
Good to know that the charger can be used as a power source, in case the battery is too depleted for the reset to work on its own.
Just used this method and worked like a champ!
Thanks! This video saved me from spending $180 on a new battery. My AD600 Pro's battery had been sitting unused for a couple years. So when I plugged it into the charger yesterday, it was completely dead and wouldn't charge. I tried bridging the two holes with a paperclip to reset the battery. No luck. It still wouldn't charge. I was close to giving up and ordering a new battery on Amazon. After reading some of the comments suggesting to jump start the battery, I went to Home Depot this morning and bought a 12V automatic battery charger for $15. It has small alligator clips on the positive/negative leads. I connected the positive and negative alligator clips of the 12V charger to the positive & negative terminals inside the WB26 battery and plugged the charger into the wall outlet for 5 minutes to give the battery some charge. Disconnected the charger's alligator clips and used the paperclip to bridge the two holes. When I connected the WB26 battery to the charger, it finally started charging!
Just want to let everybody that has the same problem know that you can use any battery to give the godox battery a bit of juice so the original charger recognises the battery again. You don't need to buy a power supply! Just cut some wire from any old cable and connect the plus to the plus and minus to the minus between the batteries just like you would when jump starting a car battery. Only needs to be done for a minute and than hit the reset like the guy in the video does with the tweezers and plug the charger back in. If it doesnt work try a battery with a higher voltage! Hope this helps anyone like me who didn't want to buy a power supply!
very good tip. I used the WB29A battery from the godox ad200pro bridging with paper clip. It worked very well.
You sir ARE A LEGEND! I was considering buying a power supply on the side which I really didn't need and your comment saved me a chunk of money... battery happy charging by my side!
thanks actually worked!!
Thanks for the video. Here are some written explanations.
First case: you bridge the 2 holes, if you can charge again, you are all set
Second case: after bridging the 2 holes, charging still does not work. You need a DC Power Supply (less than 60€ on Amazon, and if you have several batteries and flashes as I have, it is a useful investment), you will need to tune the power supply at about 25 Volt and 1 Amp.
Putting + on + and - on -, charge the battery with the power supply during about 10 seconds. Bridge the 2 holes. If charging does sill does not work, repeat charging 10 seconds another time. Bridge the 2 holes. The Godox charger may first show only 1 light, then charging will start.
If all this does not work, you may need another battery.
question about bridging those holes. are those not ESD tweezers? wouldn't that prevent an actual bridge? or is it just a couple buttons underneath there that need to be depressed?
@@guylarsonphotography8221 I have written "bridge", and never mentioned any button, it means short circuit. An ESD tweezer protects the person who holds it, but is generally made of one piece of metal covered with protection except the ends, so bridging is done.
Do you know if the procedure should be repeated after each discharge - or once is sufficient (meaning, the batteries will work flawlessly for many years on end after first shorting)? Thank you.
@@LeoInterHyenaem I have used the procedure twice on 2 different batteries, and only because they could not be charged anymore. After that, they could be charged several time. There seem to be a kind of bug on these batteries when they are discharged too much when not recharged immediately after discharge.
@@ThierryNkaoua Thank you. So, if I understand it right, the likelihood of an occasional need to short the batteries after a full discharge is fairly high? It is mindboggling that despite the fundamental flaw with these batteries, TH-cam reviewers, without exception, wax lyrical about them. It's fairly obvious to me that Godox must be rewarding them for the overtly brazen promotion of their products.
While Robert Hall, whose videos revolve around Godox lights for the most part, has been handily ignoring critical comments on Godox batteries, 3 other video reviewers, claiming lack of bias, would go so far as to deride disgruntled users and post videos laying the blame with users, apparently too daft to understand that batteries, including Godox ones "should never be discharged past a certain limit" and other like nonsense. Imagine Tesla batteries give up the ghost after the first discharge, then Tesla issuing a notice, dissing customers on the account of failure to keep the batteries charged at all times!
I've endlessly attempted to get hold of Godox to resolve the issue, but to no avail. Idem, the chinese retailer I ordered my lights from: they'll just ignore you.
I am over the moon - watched this video a hundred times - bought a multi tool or whatever it is called, a bench power supply and YES it worked like a charm. This video is priceless.
Thank you very much.
I own four of these batteries and 2 head units. Seeing this video got me excited to save my brand new batteries, and NOT spend another $800! I was able to get the first battery to charging simply by touching a paperclip to both of the gold pins. The other three didn't work, however, reading through ALL of the comments here, really helped! I was a bit bummed when the others didn't fire up... but modifying a comment I read in this thread really helped me! I used a motorcycle/jetski (1.5Amp "trickle") battery charger to aid in 'manually charging' the batteries enough for the 'flashing' of the motherboard, via touching a single piece of metal to the little round gold holes. I don't have a "Battery Tender Jr.," like one commenter did... but I used a similar device. I pulled all the screws out of the back, save the two inner top screws; that too was a great tip from someone here! I then put the negative from the 1.5 amp battery trickle charger to the larger square metal pad with the "-" above it. I put the positive lead from the trickle charger to the "+". I held both on the terminals simultaneously for about 10 seconds. I then used a paperclip. I put the same paper clip with one end in each of the gold tiny holes, squeezed together and lifted it out. Plugged the battery into the original charger, and VIOLA! It started charging!
I too was baffled by what I was seeing in the video... but through the help of so many here, figured it out! I did decide to purchase a charger from Amazon... I have so many batteries for my still and cinema cameras that sit on the shelf for long periods of time, that I thought it might come in handy in the future! $70 for this device is probably a good investment!
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JQXQ8S5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
That link doesn’t work what is the charger?
Awesome, worked for me with just the tweezers. Initially there is just a solid green light, but after leaving it plugged in for 10 minutes, the charging sequence lights sprang into life!
Thank you so much for sharing this.
Awesome quick fix!!! I feel like we all owe you something. Saved time and a LOT of money for all of us.
Worked for me too. My battery had a read wire soldered to the point on the left. Still worked to bridge the two points with tweezers and reset the bms. Nice one. Legend. I didnt realise these were prone to so much spontaneous discharge.
Which two points? The main large terminals marked + and - or the two small holes where he inserts the tweezers. If the latter, why didn’t the guy in the video do that?
what kind/brand/model battery charger did you use?
omg after watching so many tutorials this one actually worked!! Its important to connect the cables for like 5 seconds and then do the reset with the tweezers - IN THIS ORDRED. Thank you!!
This video saved me $560. I had 3 batteries that had been in storage for almost a year, and thought they were dead. I owe you a beer for sure.
Did it work for you?
@@jimmythegent9190 It definitely did. Basically you can't drain lithium batteries too low, so a safety feature is to just disconnect them once they're depleted enough. Shorting the contacts resets the safety feature so you can begin charging again.
Worked brilliantly on two flat Flashpoint XPLOR600/Godox AD600 studio light batteries. In both cases, I was able to jump-start them using a third battery, the 20V rechargeable battery from my power drill, as the DC power source. Clipped leads to the positive and negative terminals of the drill battery, held the other ends to the contacts on the studio light battery as shown in the video for about four or five minutes, touched the two contacts with a fine-point tweezer, plugged in the charger, and voilà! Both batteries charged to 100% after a couple of hours. Many, many thanks!
Worked perfectly. Both of my batteries had been sitting idle for over a year and were down to about 6v each when tested with a volt meter. Invested in a bench charger from Amazon for $70 and followed the steps in the video. Both batteries are now working fine. Definitely beat having to pay $180 x 2 for new batteries. Thank you.
WooHooo! Worked on my 600PRO TTL battery. All I did was about 3 seconds on the first step of connecting those two holes/contacts, using both ends of one of the lead wires from my volt/ohm meter. Plugged in the charger and instantly had a single green LED (previously nothing, even after 12 hrs connected to charger). It took another 10-15 minutes and the single solid LED started the usual charging sequence (as shown near the end of this video). Last time I used this battery was an August wedding. I had used a pair of 600s for family/group shots, the battery had been exhausted, set aside for charging, then forgotten about for four months. My sessions have been reduced due to the virus and I used the smaller ad200 units for those, never opening the case on the 600s until yesterday, Dec 17. I've learned my lesson! I want to express my gratitude to the poster, and to those that added helpful suggestions in the comments.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! It took me a minute to realize you are touching both points with the tweezer, but once I got that it worked beautifully! I bet there are many of these trashed that could have been saved.
WELL DONE! I bought a bunch of batteries from Adorama that I thought were dead, I did this and they all work, my students will be so happy!
This totally works! I revived my battery with a Jump Starter/portable power bank that I bought at Costco with the intent to use it when and if my car battery needed a jump. I had to get a little creative as the clamps of the power bank could not touch the metal on the battery so I used two bobby pins so that the current could go thru them and so that they could touch the metal. I did it couple of times and then I got a solid green light. I thought it had not worked but I left the charger on and the battery plugged and then checked again about 20 to 30 min later and to my surprise the battery was charging. It charged completely after a couple of hours and then I tested my light and it totally worked. Thank you for the tip. I was about to toss my battery and get a replacement. I may still get a second battery just to have extra power.
Thank you, I followed what you did but used a Stanley battery charger on 12v and manually charged for about 1 minute and I now have a solid green light for one bar. I'll check back in 30 minutes and hopefully it will be charging!
Edit: 20 minutes later and it is charging. Thanks Again!
Vielen Dank aus Deutschland hat mir sofort geholfen, braucht nicht einmal direkt nachladen. Ging gleich nach dem Reset los. Erst stand der erste grüne Balken nach ca. 10 Min fing die Ladeanzeige an zu laufen. Super! Aber sowas darf doch nicht vorkommen. Alle alten Lithium Ionen Akkus lassen sich nachladen, auch wenn sie tiefenentladen sind, z.B. Sony Kameras, Handys etc. so eine Blockade gibt es dort nicht. Abgesehen das verschlissene Akkus sich schnell wieder selbstentladen. Aber der Godox Akku war unbenutzt und nagelneu! 166€ wären sonst verbrannt.
Oh my brother. U saved my shoot n blow away my last minute stress. I love you .God bless
It worked I think!!! I literally used the spring of a pen to push the two holes in. Right after the charger started showing a green light again, also the battery status indicator on the battery itself shows one light again. Wow!!! Simply amazing!
MY GUY!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS! Literally saved my wife's shoot later this afternoon! Our model is the Flashpoint Xplor 600 R2 Pro TTL. For those who are looking for assistance, I removed the six main screws from the battery, the two other "different" screws stay attached. My resting voltage was 13.9v, so it wasn't completely flat. Fortunately just the first step worked for me, kind of like "clearing cmos" on a pc I guess. I used tweezers to jump the two connections shown in this video, then tried the charger and, AWESOME!, it worked!! I was prepared to give a voltage boost from one of my cordless power tool batteries, but luckily, I didn't have too. Thank you again to the individual in this video, you have helped save another battery/photo shoot! It is currently charging as I type this out, and my wife is grateful of this, good on you!
I haven't used my battery for 2 years, so I believe my voltage is close to 0 😅
I've tried the 1st step, but no luck.
I have 0 experience with this kinda of thing; do you know which is the easiest/cheapest way to give a voltage boost to the battery?
Thank you!
@@alessandrocarpentiero3610 Your first step should be to check the current battery voltage level using a volt meter, don't assume what it might be. It would be irresponsible of me to try to explain a voltage boost attempt not knowing how mechanically inclined you are. Batteries that are just below the voltage of what the charger will recognize as a safe level can be temporarily "charged" or "boosted" to increase the resting voltage so that the actual charger will proceed as normal. However, if your battery pack is severely discharged, it would be very dangerous to recover by manually forcing a charge to the dead battery (it would create a tremendous amount of heat in each the cells making up the battery pack). I would ask someone locally to have a look at the battery in question, possibly one of those electronics fix it places, a "Batteries Plus" store or similar. Best of luck, and please be safe!
This 100% works. My wife's 2 batteries would not charge. I opened them up and using a pin in each hole (I didnt have tweezers), which I touched together, I plugged one of the batteries in and it started charging again! I repeated the process on the other battery and same result, it works! Thank you so much!
Your wife’ is running on batteries? Sorry man , couldn’t miss the oportunity :))
It worked. Note that on taking off the back of the battery there are two dummy plastic screws that you don't need to try and unscrew. I bridged the two holes indicated for a few seconds without the charger connected and upon reconnecting the charger (no longer bridging) I had one green bar. I left it for 10 minutes of so and the charger started indicating charging (chasing green lights), I didn't need to try and charge a little first - apparently I had a tiny bit left. If you do, you just keep two contacts ( large metal foil contacts), + & - on the battery, for a few minutes. I note that some, in such case, have used a 1.5 amp trickle charger. I'm not knowledgeable about this but it seemed to work for them. Good Luck!
It worked for me!!! thank you so much. My battery died during a shoot last December 2019 and when I went home I forgot to charge it. Then we traveled abroad and when we arrived back home I totally forgot about it. Then came the lockdown, I wasn’t able to charge it for like 6 months. We should remember to charge it once in a while when not in use to prevent it from completely draining so we won’t need to reset it. I’m really glad I found this video! I was about to order a new battery.
did you just bring the voltage up and plug in the standard charger, whereafter it worked as normal? Or did you have to reset the BMS by shorting? if so, what did you short? which 2 holes?
Thank you, this worked for me, saved £70, bought PSU for £80, instead of having to get a new battery at £150
It was really clear!! I'm very grateful with you for sharing this. My 3 batteries are alive again! Thank so much
I was seriously planning to buy a couple of AD600 lights. But after seeing all of the videos and articles demonstrating how you have to baby the batteries, I've decided to stick with my current lights. As a commercial photographer, I have enough to worry about without worrying about the batteries all the time. I have lots of equipment from other brands using lithium batteries that work fine without the need for tweezers.
You only have to do this if you don't use the battery for a prolonged period of time.
The BMS (battery management system) has a parasitic drain which over discharges the batteries and then the BMS doesn't recognise and stops charging.
This won't be a problem if you are always charging it. And since you're a pro. Shouldn't be an issue.
HEROIC!!!!!!! GENIUS!!!!! Thank you for taking the time to put this up!!!! Incase anyone is confused, what you want to do is short the two contacts together. THANK YOU!!!!!
Carl Vidnic i dont get it
Which contacts are being short circuited? The two holes or when swapping terminals at charging🙆🏼♂️
@@beemarentertainmentltd281 Short the two small holes together for a few seconds with tweezers or a paper clip.
@@carlvidnic9454 Thanks a lot Carl. Mine was brand new. It had never received charge before and am sure had been lying on the shelf for a very longtime.
I did the resetting process as you explained and had to use my 12v Booster unit to jump start it. After that I got one constant green light and after about ten minutes it sprang into charging...
Out of the box it was just a red light showing.
Thanks a lot Mate. You really saved me. I salute You😇
Thank you so much! One screwdriver and a paper clip were all I needed to jumpstart the battery. It's charging now.
Can you explain to me your process. Pllleeaasssee!!!!! I have 2! Dead in the water... I dont have the contraptions that his person has.
You could even email it to me. mrtoofly84 AT GMAIL DOT COM .... thats if this message finds you well
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I just want to say as someone having 2 replacement batteries from Adorama.. this WORKED!! take the tweezers and just like 8 sec mark push down on that contact with a bit of force.
Quick explanation of the video:
The two holes are to reset the battery. If it's not charging try that first. If that doesn't work the voltage on the battery is too low to reset so you'll need to manually charge the cells a bit first. You can see in the video this being done with a bench power supply. You can also do it with the godox charger if you stick some wire into the charging pin. Once you've got the cells above about 12V you should be able to use the reset pin and charge normally.
You mentioned stick some wire into charging pin to charge the cell. Could you explain a little more how to charge the cell with Godox charger please?
yes....please provide an illustration or pic of how to "stick some wire into the charging pin".
Want to make sure we do this right.
Yess!! Let us know how to do this properly please!! Im having the same issue and dont want to buy a extra thing i wont need in the future
please explain
My battery has 2 red wires, did this guy remove the red wires???
Thank you. I followed this, including instructional comments from others and it worked perfectly. I had to buy the power supply but well worth it - I have had 3 of these batteries do the same thing so it's great! Very much appreciated.
Another note, I successfully revived 2 x WB29 batteries for Godox AD200 using the same power supply just by charging up via the external battery terminals. Saved a lot of money for me. I have noticed these Godox batteries all last well when kept connected to the flash but all seem to go dead when left off the flash.
@@richarddodson1562 will a 12v Trickle charger be used to revive the dead battery ?
@@RajanKannan11 I have no idea sorry... I just followed the procedure above - the power supply cost less than a new battery so it was worth it and so far it saved 6 Godox batteries for me - AD600Pro, AD400Pro and AD200
@@richarddodson1562 I heard they are suppose to be stored off the light. Mine died while being on the light. Speculation is the light draws a small amount of power while resting.
It really works! Your the man. I jus got my ad600pro today and was leaving for Puerto Rico to shoot a wedding this weekend..you saved me!
Thank You for this very useful video. Due to the angle of the camera, I first did not realize you used the tweezer to connect the two points. I thought one hole contained a reset switch of some sort. I have to connect the two points several times before it started to recharge again. Before each connection, I disconnected the power. The first 3 times, I got only one solid green light. After repeating the process a few more times, the 4 green lights started to scroll indicating charging in progress. Thank You very much!! A replacement battery in the UK is £170.
In case it happens again, there is no need to do multiple resets, once you get the one green LED lighting up. It just takes the charger a while to charge the battery to a voltage threshold with which it then can charge it normally.
很棒的影片，拯救了我的WB26電池。感謝
Thank you very much, I would have bought another battery thinking the one i own had gone bad. Its working again with the help of this video. thanks once again.
Thank you for this video! My AD600 pro battery was totally dead, so it did not respond to the bridge reset which I tried a few times. The AD600 Pro has slightly different circuitry, so I was not sure if that was the issue. Since the cover was off, I tried connecting my 12V “battery tender junior” trickle charger using the flat circular connectors. I bent the connectors slightly and held them against the corresponding (+ -) AD600 leads for two quick sessions of about 10 seconds each (the battery tender junior comes with two charging adaptors that plug into the wall unit). I did notice the AD600 battery making a distinct charging sound during the connection. After the second session, the AD600 pro battery came back to life and was able to reach a full charge. Thanks again for the video! Also thanks to the guy who alerted to the two fake screws - it’s crazy GodOx used fake screws to void the warranty! Just tap the screws and you can find the plastic ones in the center.
Thank you! It definitely worked on mine. Didn't need the bench power supply. I had to let the charger to charge for a while for it start to show that it's charging. Now my battery works like a charm!
So did you just use the tweezers and there was no light, but you kept it plugged in, and it eventually charged? Or was there a green light after you plugged back in?
Great video!!! Saved me $192.60 for another battery! Thank you so very much!
Thanks so much! I never would have guessed this reset procedure. You saved my battery.
This just actually worked for me and a XPLOR 600 PRO Battery. It wasn't charging after a year in storage. A) Avoid the top middle decoy screws. B) Unscrew the 6 others. C) Place tweezer ends exactly where this dude in the video is placing them (6 sec mark in video) That's all I needed to do.
IT WORKS!!!!!! --- You just have to join the two holes with an electrically conductive cable, and it will work again.
Thanks for the post... I have four batteries! (two had one charge cycle, the other 2 are BRAND NEW, never out of the box!) I was so excited when the first one worked! It came back to life! However, the other 3 didn't seem to work. Any idea as to why?
I took the shell completely off... What is the goal to have the same piece of metal touch both gold contacts/circles? Or do you need to puncture the red wrapping on the actual cell?
I had the same question
Muchísimas gracias por tu aportación. Estaba resignado a comprar una batería nueva porque la di por muerta, pero gracias a usted, he conseguido reanimarla y que comience a cargar!! Muchas muchas gracias !! Un saludo desde España.
Worked for me as well. I didn't have tweezers, so used a paper clip to bridge the 2 small holes...Thanks very much
what is actually being shorted? which 2 holes are shorted?
@@mgha-bk9bh ....do you still need to know which 2 holes to be bridged?
For those with AD200 batteries that can't be opened:
I managed to revive a dead AD200. Same issue: red light, no green lights. I kept it on the charger (plugged in) for 1 and a half days and eventually the green lights came on and now it's at 100%.
I think there's a small current going throught the charger that will slowly bring the battery back from deep sleep. I read about it in a TH-cam comment on a video with dead Godox batteries. The guy had to leave it charging for almost a week :)
I’m about to do the same. 😊
can u describe what u exactly done ? connect only the 2 contacts? or is it necessary to put a specific voltage on the other 2 contacts? thanks for showing!!!!!!!!!!!!
ok solved it too :) :) :) :) i only connect the 2 contacts with a tweezers like u and now my battery charges...thanks soooo much Fomito!!!!! :*
If please, explain more specifically all the steps necessary to revive the battery
@@AlSo-Fotografie Al So Can you explain to me how to do it specifically, Thank you !!!!
@@mateogonzalez9270 u only have to connect the 2 contacts at 0:10 for a second...thats it! :)
@@AlSo-Fotografie Sorry but I could not understand you, if you can explain better to connect the connectors.
Thank you very much really
Thanks for this great video! Step 1 did it for me; I just bridged the two holes with tweezers and I’m charging away. I guess I still had enough voltage; just needed to wake it up. Crisis averted!
Thank you it really works! It is great!
I have a pocket size battery boost for my kia car, can I used that to jump start it like you did in the video?
I had a dead battery for AD400Pro and just received a newly purchased one. Thanks for your video, the dead battery can now be charged again and I’ll get the AC adapter instead.
were you able to revive the AD400Pro battery
Thanks! If I don't have a jump stater, the reset won't work ? I tried with the tweezers, but the 3 batteries are still down
Thanks for this. Will it work for AD400Pro?
Will try it for my battery asap. Got 2 of the battery cannot be charge.
were you able to reset and get the AD400 Pro batteries to work again?
@@mgha-bk9bh
Yes i can.... Very quick process.....
Dont leave your battery until empty.
Then you will need to do this again.
Thank you, it works fine!
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You are the real MVP!!! Much appreciated!!!
anyone help me to reset my godox 600BM battery, I don't have 2 holds like 600Pro, how do you reset ? thanks
Same here
Muchas gracias desde España!!! ... Thank you too much from Spain!! My battery is newer than this, I don't have the 2 holes and need a tweezer to press, is a SMALL WHITE BOTTON!!! And I have luck because I don't have to charge, I think I don't use the flash for about 4 months... wow, I was really scare because there is no Technical support in Spain. THANKS AGAIN!!!
Bro no encuentro los agujeros, cuáles es ese botón blanco al que te refieres???
@@BETODETHRANDOM Los agujeros que se ven en el vídeo yo no los tengo, están como soldados a un botoncito blanco presionable, que hace una especie de reset... si ves este vídeo de TH-cam cuando presiona esos 2 agujeros en el mío es un botoncito blanco, ya lo he tenido que hacer 2 veces por pasar demasiado tiempo sin usar
@@vyztor me podrías ayudar amigo a dónde está ubicado el botón? Yo no lo tengo y no lo encuentro ya no se que hacer porque no senresetea mi batería es la WB87
I need to send this man a Christmas card. Thank you!
worked for both of the used batteries that i bought. loveeee
Thank you brother! Shorting the two contact points worked for me!
Worked for me!!! If you need help let me know. I used a paper clip.
I got the spark ie the battery got shorted and still nothing
same here..amazing i was just lookng at prices of batteries was 180 a piece... so damn glad this worked... my batteries are now charge fully and working.. after now been used doing this no photoshoot covid19 times
my ad600 pro battery looks different? WB26, but it does not have the reset wholes? instead there is like a button in that place? I tried pressing that in more ways and it does not power up the main unit?
OMG it works!!! Thank you so much my friend :)
Ho comprato un flash Godox Ad600pro, appena arrivato ho fatto uno scatto di prova e funzionava. Ho ripreso il flash dopo 4 mesi ed ho trovato la batteria morta. Mi sono rovinato il fegato con chi me l'aveva venduta (E_Global) per chiederne la sostituzione, ma senza risultato, perchè mi hanno dichiarato che le batterie non sono coperte da garanzia... Ho comprato allora una nuova batteria da un'altra parte, ma anche questa non funzionava. Fortunatamente però, il rivenditore (Minfo PT) mi ha ridato i soldi. Non volendo ripetere una terza esperienza negativa sono andato allora su internet per cercare spiegazioni al problema della mia batteria WB 26 ed ho trovato il link per arrivare qui. Ho seguito le istruzioni e la batteria originaria adesso funziona perfettamente ed una carica dura tantissimo. Per prudenza comunque ogni tanto controllo i led luminosi. Grazie Fomito ! ti sono debitore ;-)
Muchas gracias me funciono de esta forma..
1-: mantener presionado por 10 segundo el primer agujero, va aprender la primera luz verde sin parpadear
2: vuelve a presionar los dos agujero al mismo tiempo por 10 segundo y eso hará que la luz parpadee... thank you so much ;)
Thank you so much friend, I also fixed sleep mode problem of my Godoxpro 600 aftter watching your video, otherwise i was about to purchase a new battery...:)
Thank you, this worked great
Thank you very much for posting this video!!! It worked for me!
after shorting the 2 holes i'm only getting .92V, should I still go ahead and supply 24v power at 1 am CC?
Also works for me! Thank you for such helpful video
Looks like it's working. Lifesaver video
you're a real one! Mine are charging but it shows dead battery on the unit. Still turns on and can use the moonlight
Do you charge battery cell at 0.45 - 0.50 sec of the video? How do you charge the battery? Can we use regular car battery charger to jump start the AD600 battery? Thanks,
It worked! thanks 🙏
Could someone tell me the solution for the ad600bm battery? specifically the wb87a thank you so much
Holy s%#} this worked. I also used a trickle charger. Saved me the day before a shoot.
Can someone please tell me how can I do this for AD600 wb87 battery. It has a bit different circuit
The voltage of my batteries was too low (4,5 V) so only triggering the safety mechanism was not enough. I don't have DC Power supply, so I made my own.
DIY DC Power Supply:
Two 9 V batteries connected in series worked for me. 15 - 16 V was enough to get a green light after triggering the safety mechanism. Took a few minutes before the green lights started flashing.
would you give us some instructions how to connect your two 9V batteries to your good battery? my battery is only less than 1v left :(
You just saved my day bro. Thanks aton!
Thanks alot. It works 👍
I have the same issue but with my ad 600 BM any fix for that yet?
Hello, i’m not an electrician in mind but can you tell me the list of thee stuff i need to buy to do this? Thanks!
Oh my goodness it works! Thanks. What does contacting those two holes do?
You saved me from throwing that battery I thought dead ! THANKS
Thank you very much!!!!!! you are the man!!
Excellent!! This also worked for me too.
How does this work for some battery’s and not all. All this did for mine was turn on two green led lights which stayed on till the morning. Battery will not charge. Godox need to be made accountable only used the dam light 2 times before lockdown no idea it would mess up by discharging as that is something these type of batteries are not supposed to do.
I have a Flashpoint XPLOR 400 with the same problem. Different circuit board. any idea on how to find the same points?
Major props. Just did it and got my 1 green cell.
the same/ after this procedure one green light lights and that all - do not charging
My Godox LP800x Battery Pack is not charging at all as well, is there anyway you think we can reset or fix
i have new Godox ad 6000 Pro , i didnt use 6 month and i didnt open again, i will try this , thank you
It worked for me 🙏 thank you !
Its very helpful.
Thank you 🙏
Thank you! This works first try!
I had to order a DC Power Supply but it worked. Thanks!
Two 9V batteries connected in series worked for me :)
@@fotograflenecs why it doesn't work for me :( should I give it 3 batteries?
Hello. Great review! Unfortunately I had some problems with my ad600pro.
After updating the firmware to 1.5, the Flash always activates the cooling fans at maximum power despite having the pilot lamp off.
I am looking for the old firmware 1.3 or earlier to try the down grade. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks
What exactly is the process please? the is it simply the tweezers?
Thank You! Worked for me too!