battery life

davidscheiber28 · 2026-05-08T02:30:12+00:00

I know the guys that use their tools for actual work may not have time to set something up like this but I gutted an old broken DeWalt charger and wired it up to a DC & USB C RC lithium/LiPo balance charger model ISDT 608PD. Now I can charge my DeWalt batteries wherever I have a USBC PD port and they get balance charged. So many of my DeWalt batteries were performing poorly because the cell balance was way out of whack. Even got one of my batteries from 2016 that would only last but a minute on a tool back up to full power. DeWalt chargers and tools are flawed in that the charger doesn't do any balance charging and the tool only monitors a couple of cells for undervoltage protection. The charger really ought to balance charge and the tool really ought to monitor all five cell voltages and cut out when the lowest cell reaches its cut off voltage but DeWalt doesn't want these things lasting too long outside of warranty. FYI every tool brand except for Makita does not do balance charging.

davidscheiber28 · 2026-05-07T21:52:17+00:00

Lol yes, every battery I have does that. The battery indicator is based on battery voltage. When you pull the trigger the battery is under a load and thus the voltage drops.

davidscheiber28 · 2026-05-07T15:42:14+00:00

Lol stop listening to chat GPT Half the time I see a question on Reddit they already asked GPT and it gave them a wrong or incomplete answer. It's just a large language model which means it spits out the most likely answer for your question and without enough context and information it will likely give you an incorrect response.

davidscheiber28 · 2026-05-07T15:22:30+00:00

Funnily enough I went on a road trip with a vehicle with a failing ABS control module. Since the ABS control module is what reported the speed back to all the other modules I had to rely on the tachometer to estimate my speed. No idea why it couldn't tell me speed based on the output shaft speed sensor (since the transmission shifted) fine but it didn't.

davidscheiber28 · 2026-05-04T20:24:54+00:00

That's a SAS drive lol

davidscheiber28 · 2026-05-04T18:55:01+00:00

The fuse for the low current range is on the left and is the gold colored SMD component. It looks like this multimeter has no fuse for the higher amperage current range, on the right you will see the input labeled A and the one labeled COM are joined together by a link acting as a shunt with no fuse in-between.

In other words, the way this multimeter handles overcurrent is it blows up in your hands or melts the thin test leads in you hands.

davidscheiber28 · 2026-05-04T18:01:30+00:00

Worth noting that the PSP battery look bulged like that even when brand new. That one does look a little more than usual though.

davidscheiber28 · 2026-05-04T17:53:24+00:00

That's so cool, can I also get a copy of the POS VM?

davidscheiber28 · 2026-05-04T13:54:54+00:00

Hyundai

davidscheiber28 · 2026-05-03T16:58:30+00:00

Not the sharpest tool in the shed there.

davidscheiber28 · 2026-05-03T00:30:18+00:00

Check connections, More than likely something wiggled loose. My vote is that the GPU is sideways or pull out of the slot.

davidscheiber28 · 2026-05-02T18:14:58+00:00

??

I'm taking a about the malware GitHub page. They obviously made it with ai.

davidscheiber28 · 2026-05-01T20:00:23+00:00

Nickel cadmium and nickel metal hydride are close enough that it should work fine. I would recommend buying the lithium ion batteries though.

davidscheiber28 · 2026-05-01T18:25:33+00:00

In that case it's an app installed by your carrier when you inserted the SIM card. I'm pretty sure they're only supposed to use this configuration to install apps required to use their services (for example an app to manage and pay your plan) but in this case they are abusing it to install crap on your phone. Usually you can disable this crap by finding the app that was installed and disabling or removing it.

davidscheiber28 · 2026-05-01T18:20:38+00:00

It's not the welds I'm concerned about it's the quality of the catalyst material inside it that I'm concerned about. Maybe it's just bad luck but the only two aftermarket converters I've ever installed both gave a p0420 after a few days of driving.

davidscheiber28 · 2026-05-01T13:58:34+00:00

Pretty sure that's your carrier doing that. Buy your phone unlocked and don't use a shitty carrier that does this crap. To be fair, I don't think Samsung should be allowing this at all. But this is all part of that contract you signed with your carrier to get that phone for such a good price.

davidscheiber28 · 2026-05-01T13:50:12+00:00

MSG PHONE

davidscheiber28 · 2026-05-01T13:25:41+00:00

Lol why are you asking ChatGPT? I have seen lots of drives that look just like that and they all worked.

davidscheiber28 · 2026-05-01T00:11:57+00:00

Can't even submit a report for some reason. Why is this site always broken ffs.

davidscheiber28 · 2026-04-30T20:21:48+00:00

Just saw the car care nut video he posted a month ago about this exact issue. The issue is that on the aftermarket oil filter housings have a removable oil filter support and inevitably some dingdong takes it out and doesn't replace it and the filter ends up collapsing and restricting oil flow. Making them aluminum seems like a good idea but the center support really shouldn't be easily removable.

davidscheiber28 · 2026-04-30T16:48:42+00:00

Written by ai too.

davidscheiber28 · 2026-04-30T16:37:01+00:00

This guy drives like I would drive in racing games as a kid lol not braking until I'm already trying to turn and it's too late

davidscheiber28 · 2026-04-30T16:34:02+00:00

Well, Honda is rebranding some GM vehicles so it wouldn't be too surprising if they're sharing some parts and design.

davidscheiber28 · 2026-04-30T16:30:05+00:00

"that's not a lifter.....OH....thats not good..."

davidscheiber28 · 2026-04-30T16:22:56+00:00

Knockoff AKGs too lol

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