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I need to change the battery… it’s not keeping a charge. No instructions exist anywhere, https://www.rei.com/product/860737/smith…
UPDATE: it WORKED!!! I have bought a replacement battery from amazon. Just connected it (without molding, just duct tape) with the two existing electrodes on the board… let it charge for a while and PUFF, it turned on again!!!
Hi David, it is a bit of a late responce, but i don’t think it is possible to change the battery on a Recon Hud or Snow2. I think i read an artikel that you have to recycle the whole unit. As Intel has bought the company and stripped it down in june 2018 there is no support from Recon anymore. You could of course try to open up the battery case and replace the contence with a different pack. The manual states it needs a 3.7v lithium polymer battery. https://www.intel.com/content/dam/suppor… Replacing this should be possible. Good luck! Olaf
Yes it is possible to replace the battery in the Snow2 / Recon MOD. Most batteries should still be good, but the issue is the battery goes below 2volts and the small circuit board does not allow the battery to charge once it reaches that point. You will have to crack open the battery case as its glued, find a small 3.7v li-ion battery and solder it to the battery contacts, then plug in the charger, leave it for around 20 mins, remove the small li-ion battery and you should then be able to plug in the charger again and it should start to take a charge.
If you get the same mAh battery, then I would use the original circuit board and discard the one that come with the new battery, I have done many of them, as the recon HUD is used in the Oakley Airwaves
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MKH… I found a battery that fits in the original casing. Problem is, once you manage to get off the old casing, you basically have to tape it shut again, there’s no quick snap back on. Also, I tried just a straight swap with the battery I linked above… Problem is the same, if the battery charge is below a certain level, it will never recharge the battery through that circuit board. Lesson Learned, charge the NEW battery before putting it in!
You can pop the battery casing and bypass the circuit board to put a enough of a charge on the battery to get it to charge. Simply cut a spare usb charger and expose the positive and negative wires, tape these onto the solder points where the battery connects to the circuit board and let charge for a few minutes. Once the voltage reaches above 2 volts u can remove the taped on charger and continue charging normally through the HUD.
Hey these goggles are long dead support wise but I love mine so I’ll share what I can. I was disappointed to find out that both support was dropped for the app and the goggle batteries where dead and wouldn’t charge because they where below the low voltage threshold. (2.8 Volts). They where plugged in via USB to the computer for ~2hrs with the voltage only slightly decreasing so I decided to replace the lipo with an 18650, specifically a Sanyo NCR18650GA And %#@ let me tell you the battery life has never been better. Seriously 2 full days of skiing and they weren’t even reading low yet. Temperatures where warm -5 so that always helps with battery life but the battery life is easily over double of previous. You do need to harvest the battery protection board as there is a signal wire. Such a %#@ disappointment to see such beautiful technology die because the software support dies, and even like 8 years ago when the snow2 released it was a concern people talked about and was one of the con’s of the snow2 vs the original MOD. I wish they’d release the api, or open sourced the app so that people could run their own servers if wanted. Honestly anything would have been better than the way intel handled it.
Playing a little bit of catch up here. Does anyone have a full solution? App, battery, etc.? Thank you!!!!
