Difficulty

Easy

Steps

6

Time Required

                          15 - 30 minutes

Sections

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  • Floor Unit
  • 6 steps

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What you need

Step 1

              Floor Unit
  • Unscrew these #1 Philips screws, and leave them in the plastic foot holders.

Unscrew these #1 Philips screws, and leave them in the plastic foot holders.

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Step 2

  • Remove the foot holders and place them on the side

Remove the foot holders and place them on the side

Step 3

  • Remove the four feet and place them on the side

Remove the four feet and place them on the side

Step 4

  • Remove these #1 Philips screws, and leave them in their counterbores

Remove these #1 Philips screws, and leave them in their counterbores

Step 5

  • Lift grey shell off and place to the side to reveal:
  • ADC and Logic board
  • Bluetooth module
  • Strain gauges
  • Battery holder

Lift grey shell off and place to the side to reveal:

ADC and Logic board

Bluetooth module

Strain gauges

Battery holder

Step 6

  • The ADC and Logic board contains:
  • Bluetooth module
  • Power button connector
  • Battery and sync button connector
  • Strain gauge wheatstone bridge connections
  • The topmost connection for each of the four bridge connections is the ground; relative to this, the two middle connections should be at 1.2 VDC, and the bottom should be at 2.7 VDC

The ADC and Logic board contains:

Power button connector

Battery and sync button connector

Strain gauge wheatstone bridge connections

The topmost connection for each of the four bridge connections is the ground; relative to this, the two middle connections should be at 1.2 VDC, and the bottom should be at 2.7 VDC

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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Author

                    Pete Marchetto

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HENRY - Dec 4, 2016

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Great stuff Pete, being able to fix the wifi board got me mucho street cred with " her indoors " and lots of other goodies that go along with that

Richard Merchant - Aug 5, 2018

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Can I take out the battery box without removing the bottom?

paulo lima - Dec 30, 2018

No, you can’t. You will have to follow this procedure completely.

lisadubya - Jul 31, 2019

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Thank you! I was able to fix our 10 year old balance board.

the kids think I’m a roakstar, for now anyway.

Josué Hernandez - Mar 15, 2021

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is there schematics for the power pcb

?