VMU Li-ion battery mod

[Gocha]

Bought 4 batteries and 4 charge controllers, sadly everything should be arriving on january, so I'll have to wait a few months before I try this, which will give me some time to buy a few extra VMUs to experiment with.

[NeORomani]

I'll wait for the tutorial as I didn't understand anything from the first post except glue it with two-sided tape

[fafadou]

Simply follow the steps

@megavolt85 writes few but you can trust him with your eyes close.
D5 for example is the name of a component, it's writen on the board.

[Gocha]

I know a lot of people doesn't know how to read boards, I don't know much eather, but I guess if bother megavolt once and make an easy to follow tutorial then we can bring the mod to the masses.

[DisasterMo]

Whooo boy, soon to be one year old, this thread is.
I feel a little like a grave robber, but here we go:

@megavolt85, if I were to leave the micro USB connector on the charge controller (let's ignore the space concerns), would it be possible to charge the battery via USB? Or is there a risk of maybe damaging the VMU?
Also, but less importantly, is step 7 ("solder ground to the charge controller and to the battery") optional?
I don't see any ground wire on the charge controller in your pictures.

@Gocha, how's the tutorial coming along? Mind sharing it here, if it's finished?
Otherwise, I was thinking of writing one up myself, as well.

[megavolt85]

if I were to leave the micro USB connector on the charge controller (let's ignore the space concerns), would it be possible to charge the battery via USB? Or is there a risk of maybe damaging the VMU?

you can charge the battery via micro USB, the VMU is safe.

Also, but less importantly, is step 7 ("solder ground to the charge controller and to the battery") optional?
I don't see any ground wire on the charge controller in your pictures.

black wire from battery soldered to BAT- on TP4056. IN- soldered to groung jn VMU
this is a required step

[DisasterMo]

black wire from battery soldered to BAT- on TP4056. IN- soldered to groung jn VMU
this is a required step

Oh, whoops, my bad. Of course the "negative pole" would be the ground - it just didn't connect in my head that way. Thank you for clearing that up.

[OatBob]

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"Battery" "exchange" "sleeve", please

[DisasterMo]

@OatBob I'm sorry, what are you trying to say?

[OatBob]

It's the message from the original post.