Battery time:
My trusty three year old Panasonic ER 230 rechargeable beard trimmer started pretending to be blunt. I presumed that it must be due to the blade wearing off. On closer examination I found the blade to be more than satisfactory.I was almost tempted to buy a new one but somehow liked this one a lot and was feeling sad to put it to rest, so did a full charge and left it on for a while and the culprit turned out to be the battery. This was a wonderful discovery.
The next challenge however was to open the unit to check what kind of battery it had. On the outside it read 1.2 volt. So i guessed it might have a rechargeable single cell inside much like a AA battery. I took off the front blade as I did after each trimming for cleaning. This revealed two tiny screws which I unscrewed. A careful pry without damaging the two clips on either side revealed the contents.
There lay a 1.2 volt Ni-Cd battery inside. The battery had identical ends on both sides and had a slide in mechanism. I found the size similar to AA rechargeable batteries. So I popped in a 1000 mAh AA 1.2 Ni-Cd battery with some minor modifications to the battery carriage.Closed everything up connected it to the charger and did a full charge. The ER 230 sprung back to life and worked as new once again. I came out happy that I could breathe youth back to my trusty old friend.
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