Digital Bathroom Scales Repair - How to Fix Floor Scales with No Power Issues. Saved from Ewaste!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- So I was all ready to weigh up some stuff for the scrapyard when the bathroom scales I had simply refused to work! Not a glimmer of life at all, even with a new battery! Oh well - it looks like I have a job to do before starting the job I was intending to do!
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Love your How-To's Chris. Full marks for perseverance on that one!
Thanks Ross! I'm doing lots of How-To's at the moment as I have plenty to fix - but also TH-cam seems to share them the most!
You certainly took the confusion out of that circuit board! Great job.
Well, there's probably lots of confusion still hiding there - I was just glad it stayed hidden! 😉
I told you in the last video, Chris, Common things occur commonly! The switches are the most vulnerable, because they get wet and rusty when the bathroom floor is cleaned with a mop sloshing soapy water around 🙂 Happened to mine about 3 months ago. I sat here wanting to shout to you to ignore the board and look to the switches 🙂🙂 Well done. Logic triumphs!
Yep Dave! And I did feel early in the diagnosis that it would be the switches - but I was thrown when the test lead short on the board didn't activate the circuit. I think some corrosion on that part of the board caused some problems there and resoldering it did the trick! Thanks mate 😊👍
@@TheUltimateRecycler I'm sure you're right that resoldering helped, but the switches didn't make contact when you tried continuity, so the cleanup there also needed doing. Thanks for the video. Good lessons for us all!
It seems the disassembly was more difficult than the repair. Although the solution was a bit of a head scratcher at first.
Glad you got it going.
Thanks mate! Yeah, it's often the case - especially on modern stuff that manufacturers don't expect to be ever repaired!
Love listening to you think it through and troubleshoot Chris.
Thanks Glen, I like to leave that in - even if I go down the wrong rabbit hole as it helps people understand the process. I enjoy listening to others diagnose problems and the reasons they take certain actions also! 👍
A good analysis if you have the same type of bathroom scale. I was trying to fix my kitchen scale with some of the same tests. I discovered when I put it under load that instead of pulling 3.2V it was reading 2.7V. I put in a fresh battery and it works fine now.
Good job! Yes, it's best to start with the most obvious first! 😀
Another problem solved and a new lease of life for some previously doomed scales. 👍
Yep most people would have just chucked them and bought new ones!
Nice job once again Chris. Those switches must be the same ones used in cheap bedside alarm clocks 😄
Haha - maybe you are supposed to stand on the clocks then?! 🤣🤣 Thanks Dave! 👍
Nicely diagnosed... If you had some large known weights or dumb bells, it might be worth checking the accuracy just in case it's way off, either at low or high weighs.
Thanks Martin. I was the test weight and it's reasonably accurate! 🙄🤣
Nice fix! Roast pork scale error! 😆 Looking forward to the scrap run!🚚
There should be a compensation switch for anyone who has had roast pork recently! 🤣
Thanks Geoff - so am I! 👍
good fix, i was waiting particularly to see how those springs went back in. I picked up some analogue ones not long ago for scrap weighing, will never have these issues. (picked up some digital body fat ones also that give a different weight each time you stand on them also.. probably why they were discarded)
The springs were easier than anticipated thankfully! Yeah, I have some mechanical ones somewhere - I think right at the back of the emergency storage shed! 🙄😲
I would have struggled to get all those pieces back in place! Another impressive effort 😄
I was confused when you said diode check, because that beeping mode is called continuity on my multimeter, and diode check is a separate mode that shows the voltage drop (or OL for open circuit). I assume they're both combined on yours, which makes sense.
Thanks, I'm glad you are enjoying these fixes! Yep - my meter calls the beep mode a diode check! 👍😊
Nice fix Chris.
Thanks Longship! 😊👍
Your patience in patching this digital patient should be patented!
Thanks mate, always appreciate your nicely worked comments! 😁👍
Thank you
Thanks Cynthia 😊
did you lick the 9V battery terminals to test it? used to be very effective, (shocking how accurate it is)
Sure did! Tried and proven method! 👌
Let me try to translate a famous quote from a French black & white movie from the 50’s : « when 80kg men speak 60kg men listen to them.. » cheers 😂
Hahaha! I was probably only 70kg before the roast pork the other day!! 🤣🤣
Wire spring for battery contact is rusty has broke how can I replace it
It happens a lot when batteries corrode. Sometimes you can get a suitable replacement from an old TV remote control or similar.
search youtube for video "
Hal fixing a light bulb (from Malcolm in the Middle S03E06 - Health Scare)"
Hahaha! That did make me laugh! Most of us can really relate to that!! Thanks Dean 🤣🤣
@@TheUltimateRecycler ADHD people call these "side missions" ooh look a squirrel
@@deankdx lol - I think my entire life is a side-mission! 🙄🤣
@@TheUltimateRecycler definitely seems the most fun out of any life goals i've heard of before. what's your life goal? go on lots of adventures and side missions! well, that sounds ridiculous stay in school son LOL
@@deankdx 🤣 Yeah, then get a proper job that you dislike and be bored for most of your life! Bah - who wants to be "normal"!