You haven't missed much, but currently we just stripped the wires that connect to the battery holder.
A bit more story after the jump...
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Story: my brother, a professional photographer, worked at a website that reviewed lighting equipment.
The site is long gone, my brother moved on to other stuff. One day, he found this battery light that uses an uncommon battery and charger in his storage and asked me what could be done to save it.
I asked a friend and he suggested a course of action: remove the battery (long gone, maybe unsafe) and test with a DC power supply...
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... to see if it can be tricked into thinking that there is a battery.
If it works, he will help us find a suitable substitute (different type though).
He builds his own drones (from scratch) so he knows what he's talking about.
Now, did you see the size of those capacitors? I am not going to futz around them! So right now, I am just going to make those cables longer, so they can go out through the hole for the battery, and do the rest of the tests with it closed!
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A kindly reminder, children: you DO NOT want to fuck around huge capacitors.
If you make the slightest mistake then you WILL get electrocuted and you WILL be in mortal peril.
I working on this because the equipment was discharged and has beem disconnected for a decade. And even then, I'm being cautious AF.
You DON'T want to find out.
Electricity is NOT your friend and it WILL kill you.
I think this is enough of a warning.
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Ah, and since we are at it, another disclaimer: I am not an expert, this is not a tutorial.
I am a retro enthusiast that barely has knowledge and/or skills to do (wrongly) basic things like soldering and or the like.
Any and all unrequested suggestions, opinions, or reclaims should be sent in written to: Casa Santa Marta. 00120 Vatican City.
(Just don't expect the pope to answer back, he's very busy doing whatever he does).
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Now, I know better than to show my soldering skills on the internet, so be content with just a photo of the thing inside of its enclosure, where you can kinda see the cables and the heatshrink tubing applied to keep things safer. I did a knot on the extended cables to provide a bit of stress relief (nobody wants a pulled cable here).
Red is Batt+, Blue is Batt-
But i didn't have red cable so I went with brown.
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Connected everything and....
Same issue than with the battery. Controls show intermittent behavior while the internal "bell" sounds repeatedly.
No way for me to do more with it just yet.
Could it be a capacitor gone wrong?
Hmmm
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@rebeccafinn Yeah, someone just recently told @ann3nova that, even if disconnected for years, and if they had been discharged then, CRTs can get charged again without intervention from I-forgot-which-phenomenon. Brrrrr.
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