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I noticed even without a battery in it for over 24hrs the LED light still comes on for a few seconds. Is it a capacitor still charged up or possession by some sort of electrical demon from abusing the poor little blue guy? You be the judge…
Time for an exorcism. You’ll need an old and a young priest……
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That scares me because considering how far the little guy can throw snow I hate to think what’s gonna happen if it starts vomiting the nasty green stuff… 😛
Must be some juice still floating around in there, maybe something get wet under your giant load of snow and short something or other?Might be worth some snooping around inside of it.
I seem to remember this happening even when new last season but never thought about it until recently again. It seems to run fine and still looks like new. The auger is pretty well made in these things too, heavy steel brackets with a hard rubber blade that seems to not damage anything yet hard enough to do the job without breaking.
The capacitor should discharge and since you don’t have the battery in it nothing should charge it back up. Do the LEDs run on the battery?
There would most certainly be a cap in there to keep the light brightness constant for those times the motor is under heavy load.
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It did it on the TIA review video they have something going on that stores energy with the battery off to power the led’s enough.
JerryNY, you need a priest. That thing is possessed.JerryNY wrote:
I noticed even without a battery in it for over 24hrs the LED light still comes on for a few seconds. Is it a capacitor still charged up or possession by some sort of electrical demon from abusing the poor little blue guy? You be the judge…
At least it doesn’t just start up randomly
Jasonc wrote:
It did it on the TIA review video they have something going on that stores energy with the battery off to power the led’s enough.
Ah maybe that’s where I remember it from…
They probably have a cheap lion cell so you can keep the light on as you go back to your garage after the battery dies.
Damn a 24 hour holding charge, i wanna know what capacitors they used in that thing!
I agree it needs to be torn apart, and while its torn apart sprinkle with holy water.
jeffmcmillan wrote:
They probably have a cheap lion cell so you can keep the light on as you go back to your garage after the battery dies.
I don’t think so, seems kinda more a bug than a feature. It only stays on max 5-6 seconds. You can wait a little and it can work a little more but not for very long.
Hatter512 wrote:
Damn a 24 hour holding charge, i wanna know what capacitors they used in that thing!
it will actually hold it for much longer than that and it uses 3x1W Led’s I think so if it is the capacitors they do seem to hold some decent charge. I do wonder if the windings in a brushless motor can actually store some electricity, they are isolated and no brushes to leak the current out when off.
chadlanthier wrote:
I agree it needs to be torn apart, and while its torn apart sprinkle with holy water.
LOL, yeah there is something inherently spooky about an electrical device still running without a battery installed.
JerryNY wrote:
it will actually hold it for much longer than that and it uses 3x1W Led’s I think so if it is the capacitors they do seem to hold some decent charge. I do wonder if the windings in a brushless motor can actually store some electricity, they are isolated and no brushes to leak the current out when off.
Makes sense being brushless are more efficient in their energy usage.
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JerryNY wrote:
it will actually hold it for much longer than that and it uses 3x1W Led’s I think so if it is the capacitors they do seem to hold some decent charge. I do wonder if the windings in a brushless motor can actually store some electricity, they are isolated and no brushes to leak the current out when off.
Definitely a battery and not a capacitor then. Capacitor would just drain and not light again unless something (a battery, wind, lightening, god) charged it.
It would be cool to see an AvE style tear down on the led light to see what exactly is going on.
You had to go there…..
I was just in the garage and the snow Joe hasn’t had a battery in it for a week and it still lights up the LED’s for a few seconds and then fades. Give it a little time and it does it again…
I loved that movie, you need to,start calling your SnowJoe Christine.
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Bagahahaha!! Rego went there!! Haven’t seen that movie in forever!