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Offline MartinHocking

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Re: EEVblog #822 - World's Worst Tablet Computer Teardown
« Reply #150 on: February 22, 2016, 03:28:22 am »
Yes I have seen jobs like that before, and even done stuff like that when I was younger lol. anyway what do you do with it after tear down ?? I may have a use for it after a REBUILD ?. anyway keep up the good work love the videos.
 

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Re: EEVblog #822 - World's Worst Tablet Computer Teardown
« Reply #151 on: February 22, 2016, 10:04:24 pm »
There's really nothing wrong with soldering to batteries as long as you do it correctly :)
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Of course it's WRONG !! it's very dangerous !!
Under the plus pole nipple or each and every rechargeable cell sits an overpressure valve (this is why there are holes in it)
when you solder on the nipple, the pressure valve seal material gets overheated, and melts.
Often, the valve then sticks, which is very dangerous, the battery can explode if treated wrong, instead of making a controlled electrolyte release !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  :palm: :palm: :palm: :palm: :palm: :palm: :palm: :palm: :palm: :palm: :palm: :palm: :palm: :palm: :palm: :palm: :palm: :palm: :palm: :palm: :palm: :palm: :palm:


The right way to do it is to use a spot welder for batteries, and zinc strips. You can get very cheap chinese ones from the usual sources.
Alternatively, get batteries with tabs, and solder the tabs ! That's safe, as long as the tab edges don't rub against the isolating sleeves of the batteries.

Tell it to the R/C modelers ;-). Experienced guys would never use spot welded battery packs. Especially those attending competitions or having their toys a bit "professional". I've soldered a lot of battery packs without any failure. Of course I killed few cells on the beginning. ::)

I admit that R/C modelers are bit crazy... I've seen really crazy stuff over years, e.g. "human delta peak" charging for famous Sanyo 1700 SCR....

In general, you are right and people with no experience should not try to solder any cells, but with your thousand face palms you are overreacting.

« Last Edit: February 22, 2016, 10:08:02 pm by Warhawk »
 

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Re: EEVblog #822 - World's Worst Tablet Computer Teardown
« Reply #152 on: February 23, 2016, 05:35:00 am »
I've soldered a lot of battery packs without any failure. Of course I killed few cells on the beginning. ::)

So.... you haven't soldered a lot of battery packs without failure.

And the ones that "survived", how do you know they aren't damaged?
 

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Re: EEVblog #822 - World's Worst Tablet Computer Teardown
« Reply #153 on: February 23, 2016, 07:48:59 am »
I've soldered a lot of battery packs without any failure. Of course I killed few cells on the beginning. ::)

So.... you haven't soldered a lot of battery packs without failure.

And the ones that "survived", how do you know they aren't damaged?

Come On ... my battery packs have been working for years...

Here is an example of the soldering process example:
http://www.lomcovak.cz/dilna/old/baterky.htm

(translate from Czech to English or just go through the pictures).
There are of course other alternate ways (soldering side by side).
« Last Edit: February 23, 2016, 07:50:41 am by Warhawk »
 

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Re: EEVblog #822 - World's Worst Tablet Computer Teardown
« Reply #154 on: February 23, 2016, 08:07:42 am »
If you solder it well, there won't be any measurable damage on the inside. Lithium ion will fail under heat stress through:
  • Ion reduction (long-term heat, arrhenius effect, +10C = 2x faster ageing)
  • Thermal runaway (140-170C)
  • Thermal dissociation of e.g. the electrolyte

When soldering the cathode, which is connected both electrically and thermally to the entire outside of the battery, it's extremely hard to introduce enough heat into the battery to cause any of the failure modes. You'd have to be heating it for minutes to get anywhere near dissociation or runaway, and even then you don't have any current through the battery to kickstart the runaway reaction. Mind you, lithium ion doesn't use water-based electrolytes. There is no pressure build-up at any time, unless if you're producing hydrogen during thermal runaway.

On the anode, you're generally not directly thermally connected to anything but the carbon/polymer rod, so 1) you'll be done in seconds, way too little time to introduce any significant amount of heat into the pack and 2) you have very bad thermal contact to the sensitive bits, so I doubt if you can even get the electrolyte past 100C

Spot welding is not necessarily better than soldering. The reason cells are spot welded is simply because it's economical, however you don't get a particularly low resistance weld. The actual welded area is only a few mm2, good enough for laptop battery packs that never go above 1A discharge, but not nearly enough for high-current applications like RC stuff. Soldering is best practice in this case, and if you half know what you're doing it's not going to impact longevity at all for any practical purposes.

Hell, up to a few years ago most high-end electric tool manufacturers used special high-copper solder to build their packs (instead of spot welding). Now that surface welding has matured they've moved over to that, but that should say a lot.
 

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Re: EEVblog #822 - World's Worst Tablet Computer Teardown
« Reply #155 on: February 23, 2016, 08:12:32 am »
You are right that I used misleading statement. It should have been :"I've soldered a lot of battery packs without any failure after I learnt how to do that".

Btw there is a small business in Olomouc (http://www.satria.cz/ ) where a guy makes new battery packs or refurbishes them for various handtools e.g. drills, screwdrivers etc. As far as I know he has been been in the business for years and became famous in the community for his quality. He uses soldering as well.
Another guy (working now at ON Semi in Roznov) made for him several "ProForms" http://tichytomas.info/clanek.php?id=23 which he uses for battery checks....

R/C aficionado is not always a kid with his foam toy in a park ;-)

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Re: EEVblog #822 - World's Worst Tablet Computer Teardown
« Reply #156 on: March 01, 2016, 07:13:55 am »
That strange pattern on the display looks just like the displays we used at a company I used to work for. IIRC, they were a ruggedized, hardened glass projected-capacitance touch panel, designed for industrial applications where the operator needed to use the touchscreen while wearing gloves. I think they were made by a company called Zytronic. That display might be a similar type.

I've seen it on ATMs as well.
it is because of the capacitive touch display. They are so bad.
 

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Re: EEVblog #822 - World's Worst Tablet Computer Teardown
« Reply #157 on: March 01, 2016, 09:33:47 am »
That strange pattern on the display looks just like the displays we used at a company I used to work for. IIRC, they were a ruggedized, hardened glass projected-capacitance touch panel, designed for industrial applications where the operator needed to use the touchscreen while wearing gloves. I think they were made by a company called Zytronic. That display might be a similar type.

I've seen it on ATMs as well.
it is because of the capacitive touch display. They are so bad.

They do the job they're designed for.

Obviously they'd be unacceptable on an iPad, but for something industrial or something that people use for a couple of minutes? Not a problem.

 


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