Hi there..im new here looking for assistance. The lid on mi is tick 40 is lifting and will not tighten down. Any ideas??
That's a lipo battery inside. I'd place it outside the house. There is 2 screws on the top, should not pop up unless the battery is puffing up which can be quite dangerous and harmful.
Oooh oooh! I had one of those way back when and i had that happen. The top of the mod is held on with screws and the case metal is crap so the screws eventually strip out. I looked at fixing it, and the only solution i could come to was filling the internal screw threads with epoxy putty and effictively turning them into glue pins. Used a clamp to hold the top down while the glue set. But i screwed up the wiring and it was dead dead. IMHO it wasnt worth it. Recycle the thing and either get something different that wont do that, or the same one again and expect it to live about as long as the earlier one.
Back when I was starting out, I got two iStck 40 TCs and both stopped working within a couple of months. I went back to iStick30ws and got 7 years out of them. If you still like the compactness of an istick and don't need the extra power I'd say try one.
I fully agree with the earlier comments about safety and wouldn't personally try a repair; to me they aren't user serviceable.
I fully agree with the earlier comments about safety and wouldn't personally try a repair; to me they aren't user serviceable.
Why do I think about opening electrical things like I do?
Back in the 70s when I was seriously into photography and using it to illustrate my monthly column in Cycling World ... I found out about what Bert Hardy, award winning Brit photograher, did with a basic pocket camera.
I took up this as a personal challenge and bought a plastic Kodak S29 ( or similar ). With good framing of shots, and a keen watch on the light, plus careful use of the 35mm moderate wide angle lens - it produced magazine cover pictures.
Howandever, then there came reports of folk who decided to tamper with the flash, suffering under the delusion that as the camera only made use of a low voltage battery and it'd be perfecty safe - unfortunately for them the flash ramped up the battery's incoming power to silly levels.
Those who tried it are no longer with us,
There are old electrical tamperers, there are bold electical tamperers, but there are no old and bold electrical tamperers!
Back in the 70s when I was seriously into photography and using it to illustrate my monthly column in Cycling World ... I found out about what Bert Hardy, award winning Brit photograher, did with a basic pocket camera.
I took up this as a personal challenge and bought a plastic Kodak S29 ( or similar ). With good framing of shots, and a keen watch on the light, plus careful use of the 35mm moderate wide angle lens - it produced magazine cover pictures.
Howandever, then there came reports of folk who decided to tamper with the flash, suffering under the delusion that as the camera only made use of a low voltage battery and it'd be perfecty safe - unfortunately for them the flash ramped up the battery's incoming power to silly levels.
Those who tried it are no longer with us,
There are old electrical tamperers, there are bold electical tamperers, but there are no old and bold electrical tamperers!
I do know the united electrical code book is written in blood, someone has to die for it to change. And it changes. Every year.
The OP was seen again today, so that’s good news.
Is it still on the go? I took it for many years from when it first came out. Steve Dyster, my editor left and now has an online site called 7 Day Cyclist. We've been friends a long time and he's on my Facebook
Speaking of Swelling Lipo's...
Check out my "Backup" e-Bike battery from late last year.
That's like a Solid Rocket Booster waiting for Ignition.
Every year they promise new battery tech.....
It’s actually coming. It is just taking longer than expected
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