Broken Ecoflow Delta // Want to follow along on my repair journey?

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Hello EEVblog forum members, new joiner here 👋

Recently I purchased a broken EcoFlow Delta (https://www.ecoflow.com/us/delta-portable-power-station) portable power station off a local auction site. The price was good, and my gamble is that I can get it repaired for a modest amount of extra cash, hopefully ending up with a product that would otherwise have costed me an order of magnitude more.

I want to know if there is an appetite in this community to follow along while I attempt this repair work?

More importantly: I am by no means an expert in this field. I know my way around a soldering iron, and I have a couple of small electronics projects and repairs under my belt, but I have never attempted something at this scale before. I would sincerely appreciate the advice and assistance from the masters in this community. I am keen to learn and improve my electronics knowledge and skills along the way.

I'm fully aware that what I want to attempt is risky. I'm dealing with a 1.3KWh lithium battery, and an inverter circuit capable of outputting more than 3KW peak. I don't want to destroy myself, my tools or my device under test (in that order of preference, if possible!). This is why I want to do this repair under the watchful eye of a master. To help and guide me along the way.

I am in contact with EcoFlow customer support, and I have obtained the contact details of their service center that's local to me. As a last resort, I can send the unit in to them for repairs. But for reasons that will become apparent in the future, I would like to avoid this. And also, sending a broken device in for repairs is infinitely less fun than attempting the repair myself.

So before I post any more, I would like to know what the rest of the community thinks? Am I welcome here, and will my contributions be useful/valuable to the forum in general? Or should I not bother and just attempt the repair alone, or send it in?

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I realize now that there is a "Repair" subforum that I missed when I created this post originally.

This thread will probably make more sense there.

Can an admin assist in moving this post to that subforum, or do I need to recreate it there?