{"id":272,"date":"2012-02-06T00:04:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T05:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2012-02-06T00:04:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T05:04:12","slug":"scooba-battery-tear-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/scooba-battery-tear-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Scooba Battery Tear Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find myself in possession of two dead Irobot Scooba Battery Packs and no working robotic floor mops. I decided it was worth doing the tear down on one just to see how tough it could be to rebuild it myself. It took about 30 minutes only because I tried to be careful not to break the clips I knew I would find just inside one edge. I was not entirely successful in keeping those clips intact despite my best efforts. The extra glue inside the case is an evil &#8220;feature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can see the pics of the battery pack guts on G+ <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/photos\/112036112614831465397\/albums\/5705879085846929377\" title=\"Gallery of Scooba Battery Pack Internals\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"extlink\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/inanimatereason.com\/images\/scooba-battery-guts.jpg?w=474\" alt=\"Scooba Battery Guts\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next step, test the cells under load and find affordable replacements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find myself in possession of two dead Irobot Scooba Battery Packs and no working robotic floor mops. I decided it was worth doing the tear down on one just to see how tough it could be to rebuild it myself. It took about 30 minutes only because I tried to be careful not to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/scooba-battery-tear-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scooba Battery Tear Down<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-nonsense"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1yjzF-4o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inanimatereason.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}