KORG Battery Failures, How To easily repare !!
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2021 9:07 am
Hello All,
Due to my too busy work, i frequently let my arranger unused for a while. im facing lot of pbs with my Korg Pa3X Battery.
i found that these batteries are too fragile and too nervous.
we cannot let the arranger too long without using it, it's very easy to lose the battery. ive already lost two packs
Sorry but these kind of batteries are very bad quality. i am so astonished that great and unrivalled Korg accept to provide its loyal customers with such poor quality parts as those damn batteries !
Why instead they don't provide a simple common battery holder so we can just put in it good rechargeable batteries.
at the end disgusted i put the arranger in its original box and forget it for more than five years !!
one day tired waiting and very frustrating to not enjoying such crazy investment i wake up and decided to figure out the pb.
these are then the solutions ive found :
1- the sign that the battery is dead is that the power Switch on Led is blinking alternatively Red/Green. despite this we can resuscitate one by one the elements. just take off the first green plastic cover, just with a single line of refend using a blade. Try to not damage it in order to reuse it as i think it's very important to cover and isolate the battery from other metallic parts of the device.
one trick to succeed to recharge the elements battery of the pack using a simple charger is to disassemble the charger to facilitate access without disassembling the battery pack
2- otherwise we can use a multimeter to localize the dead element of the battery pack and just change it with an other good part. always try to resuscitate the elements before disassembling it. because the big issue is how to welding in series the six elements of the battery pack ?? welding it with Tin is not recommanded as there is a risk of overheating the element of the battery (Battery hate Heating). The factory solution have a name ive found it not without difficulty 'SPOT WELDER'
There is very tricky solutions over there in Youtube Look for 'DIY Battery Spot Welder'
3- another very good solution is to DIY assembling a new pack of six 1.2v rechargeable NiMH Batteries with spot welding or just tinkering a simple battery holder easily found at electronics scrap. otherwise try to rapidly welding with Tin avoid overheating
Due to my too busy work, i frequently let my arranger unused for a while. im facing lot of pbs with my Korg Pa3X Battery.
i found that these batteries are too fragile and too nervous.
we cannot let the arranger too long without using it, it's very easy to lose the battery. ive already lost two packs
Sorry but these kind of batteries are very bad quality. i am so astonished that great and unrivalled Korg accept to provide its loyal customers with such poor quality parts as those damn batteries !
Why instead they don't provide a simple common battery holder so we can just put in it good rechargeable batteries.
at the end disgusted i put the arranger in its original box and forget it for more than five years !!
one day tired waiting and very frustrating to not enjoying such crazy investment i wake up and decided to figure out the pb.
these are then the solutions ive found :
1- the sign that the battery is dead is that the power Switch on Led is blinking alternatively Red/Green. despite this we can resuscitate one by one the elements. just take off the first green plastic cover, just with a single line of refend using a blade. Try to not damage it in order to reuse it as i think it's very important to cover and isolate the battery from other metallic parts of the device.
one trick to succeed to recharge the elements battery of the pack using a simple charger is to disassemble the charger to facilitate access without disassembling the battery pack
2- otherwise we can use a multimeter to localize the dead element of the battery pack and just change it with an other good part. always try to resuscitate the elements before disassembling it. because the big issue is how to welding in series the six elements of the battery pack ?? welding it with Tin is not recommanded as there is a risk of overheating the element of the battery (Battery hate Heating). The factory solution have a name ive found it not without difficulty 'SPOT WELDER'
There is very tricky solutions over there in Youtube Look for 'DIY Battery Spot Welder'
3- another very good solution is to DIY assembling a new pack of six 1.2v rechargeable NiMH Batteries with spot welding or just tinkering a simple battery holder easily found at electronics scrap. otherwise try to rapidly welding with Tin avoid overheating