Ah ok so they come with receivers included. I thought you might end up having to buy a new receiver as well.
Cheers
This is what the back of my VX3 pro screen looks like. Is this the potting scenario you are talking about? If so looks like they may now be doing it. If not please explain?
My vx3 pro had water in the screen. The cable to the screen were really close or had contact to the sidewall. I believe the water came in thru the gap between sidewall and cable, where no compound filled the space between cable and sidewall.
In our opinion the water in ours came through insufficient bond between the potting compound and acrylic screen cover. It took a while to damage the TFT screens, as soon as we noticed it we dried the remote out in a food dryer after drilling two little holes in the acrylic screen cover sides close where the wires go in. After drying it out we injected clear epoxy into it. This procedure was described in a post here, it works quote well and we could salvage about half of the ones with water in it.
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I did the same to my screen. I flushed it with isopropanol quite a few times and then dried it in the oven.
I flushed the screen with epoxy. The visibility got worse. I can barely see the battery now.
It still works though and is usable
I had the problem that the charger shows 100% but the controller will not turn on. No time to wait for a new one since winter is approaching in Norway, so I opened it and replaced the battery. Works well now.
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Love it. High tech solution. I think you almost need to epoxy pot them and then silicone pot over that to stop water running down where the wires enter the epoxy potting.
I just had a remote failure, and I have a spare remote but can’t get the receiver and remote to bind, any advice?
Bigger topic is there an alternative to these garbage flipskys?
BRemote2?
It is a bit work to build.
But it is working much better, you get support here and you could replace any single part, should there ever be an issue.
The better range makes it so much easier to use, compared to the VX3 that lost connection, once the board was 1mm under water.
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Good idea I have one with the exact same problem. I probably have some batteries from other devices I no longer use that would fit, It’s worth a shot since it’s dead anyways!
I had my vx3 out yesterday was fine. Put it on charge overnight and it wont turn on today even though it reads 100% when on charger. I guess I will pull it apart.
Is it mostly pro version that is failing or original version?
Does anyone have an anonymous survey tool we could use on the forum for this?
I would appreciate it if anyone in this topic that hasn’t already posted please make one in this new topic to help the community.
Thank you😀
So as suggested by Bigbug my first Flipsky VX3 failed 2 years ago after 2 or 3 times using it. Since replacing the battery worked for him and the remote was dead anyway I thought I would try to fix mine the same way. I pulled the old battery out it was a pouch cell 1500 ma/h. There was a small BMS on it. Water got to the battery and BMS and the contact rusted out the battery was dead, I had an almost identical battery from an old drone that I no longer have it’s 1800 ma/h same size. I soldered it in place. I didn’t have silicone left so I potted it in with Goop I use this for everything and it never fails. I could not salvage the BMS so I went direct. It worked the remote is back. I had it in water turned on for 30 minutes and it still works, I tested the charging and it works. You can probably find this type of battery on Aliexpres for a dollar or two.
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I would love some advice on how to remove the battery. (In case my new vx3 fails) I tried to take the battery out of the old one and nearly set the house on fire. So any advice on how to remove the battery safely would be greatly appreciated.
The battery is potted in with white silicone. I just ran a small screwdriver all around it to detach the silicone from the plastic body and pulled it out. I didn’t puncture the battery. Puncturing a charged battery could be dangerous but mine was dead 0V so probably safer that way. The silicone peeled off pretty easily with my fingers.
Pretty sure mine is black epoxy.
