[a fix for the no longer available battery gen 1]

Hi Doug! 

Hoping you can help me! I need to find a solid solution to my DF battery issues. I seem to have misplaced my original battery when it stopped working and after I bought the tronical kit. But placing the tronical back plate as they suggest seems physically impossible, so I just have the battery placed inside the back, with the wires taped to it. It's not an elegant solution and means I have to keep opening the back plate and I'm sure my back plate screw holes are already getting worn out. The tronical batteries also don't last long.

Some have suggested using batteries like this one, but I'm also wondering if you had luck with the focus batteries and whether the wiring would be tricky. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

[a fix for the no longer available battery gen 1]

Ok, I did it. I decided today was the day to transfer the old battery to new. I bought 2 pair of the batteries, and after cutting the shrink wrap that was around the old batteries being careful not to cut your wire, I de-solder the two wires and the connecting plate on the bottom of the batteries from the assumeingly bad batteries. I re-wrap the new batteries with a short piece of electrical tape and re-soldered. I decided to do a test charge and for about 30-45 seconds I had nothing, no lights (Got extreme nervous at that point). Then it started charging, it took about 30 minutes to get a full charge. It also fix and issue I was having before the batteries completely died. of my guitar cutting out while playing make lowered sound then no sound at all.

 

So the issues I was having before making me suspect the batteries.

 

1. I went to charge my guitar and when I pulled the MCK the blue lights came on and and went into a semi circle rotation, around the control MCK knob and would not stop.

2. Fading in and out guitar. Guitar would stop playing or making sound until I moved switches or pulled the MCK in out several time.

 

cost of material 4 batteries $8.95, shrink tubing $0.75 only because I had to buy a 5 foot second, Home depot, Lowes and most hardware stores carry it. My time to complete the job only because it was the first one, and I took my time, I did 0.45 minutes I am going to do it again to make a YOUTUBE video so be prepared.

 

As a final statement $60 dollars from Tronical (when there in stock) for batteries is crazy.

soldier and solder iron shrink tubing new batteries roughly $6.00 to $10.00 and your back in buisness

 

I will try to do the video this weekend so no one else has to bother paying absorbent prices for a battery. I will be glad to answer any questions you have, But chances are I will be selling my robot to buy a real Gibson, (Gibson this put a sour taste in my mouth) that want depreciate in value.

 

good luck, and hope this works for you also.

 

Hi :) Did you ever get around to posting that video? If so, could you please link me up? My Dark Fire is dead :(