All right time to crack these guys open, i haven't actually done them yet, so it will be my first time and i will get to see how hard they are. It seems like it's pretty easy thing uh just for those of you don't know the reason why you might want to crack these open is to salvage the cells or to reclaim the cells right harvest the cells, that's what uh it's commonly known. So basically you take the cells out. Then you test them.

Then you build them into different packs, uh in many different ways, including but not limited to my little pcb system here that i have right. So these are very popular online right now, so i'm gon na show you how to break them apart all right. Let's do this, let's start with this one. They come with this uh half shell over here, because these go on the stem of a scooter right, and so it's got different little holes here that are filled with like goo like thing here we go, you can see those holes there see them they're filled.

So you just use the screwdriver: stick it through there and then all that glue falls off then you're able to expose the uh the screw. Much like that right so take those screws off and then just like that. This pops right off - oh yeah, okay! So the top stuff part of the bms stays in there attached to the top and because we can't use that because they're the cables are cut off and stuff, then that's: okay, here's the bottom side of the bms and we'll have to cut that too. All right! So now that you have that you'll expose the back side and it's got screw holes, which is pretty cool because in theory you should be able to screw these on another board.

You know and put a bunch of them like this, and then you have access to each one of these um battery terminals right to install a an outside, bms and stuff, but that's gon na be for another video. For now. I'm just gon na show you how to take these apart, so the next step would be to cut these off by the way. If anybody's got those little elite on those little connectors.

That would be pretty awesome because then you could just connect stuff in there and then you have access to all the the leads. Okay. So, let's see if we can do this without making too many sparks, let's start with the bottom here, the bottom: it's a good idea to start with it, because as soon as you disconnect this, then basically you cut the pack in half. So now, there's not! You know 40 volts, potentially 42 volts in here now, it's half of that.

So there we go. It's just cut in half okay, so there we go. So we disconnected that so now, let's cut these guys off like this. Here's probably the easiest way to actually lift it, so yeah, the next one.

You do the same thing you grab it there we go and then you remove this whole thing right there yeah, so there you go, that's the connector for all the balancing leads nice. Let's do the other side now, all right, so here's the other one. Now the top of this guy should be able to come out, clip clip clip and there we go. There's the bottom portion of the little bms right seems like there's something holding the whole stack here.

Let's see, hopefully, is just a regular phillips right. It looks like it's actually from the bottom yeah, oh yeah there. It is wait a minute. What oh it's a rot.

There we go oh jesus just like that, it's just a rod and then these guys just come out. Look at that they're individual little little pieces. These two are parallel. These are two parallel right.

All right, so part two is now disassembling these guys. Then you remove the little casing here. Okay, so now what happens? Is that you end up with these little prickly little things? Those are pretty sharp. They won't make.

You bleed. If you touch them like this accidentally, they will puncture you, and so it's a big pain. So what you do is you just cut them off as much as you can with your pliers here all right. There we go now they're safe to grab like that and that's uh, that's the first cell, all right! So there we go.

We have turned one of those and completely taken it apart and disassemble it, and that is what you end up with. Here is the cool thing about these cells. They don't have any glue, look at that no glue right. They come out and they're pretty pretty clean right and so uh for those of you that are watching this, and you don't know why you wouldn't want to do this.

The reason is because this is the only way that you can get pretty decent quality cells like these lg and 26s, for very for this kind of price right uh. To give you an example: uh, if you want to buy these, are a new, then you're, going to pay like two two and a half dollars each cell right uh, if, like the ones that i have on my website right now, that are brand new they're, better Sales than this they have more capacity, but they'll set you back about three dollars each right, so the reason why you would want to do this, this kind of work here is because then you end up with a cell. That, sometimes is you know about a dollar or sometimes a sub one dollar right per cell, and so that is the reason why you want to do that so the next step. Now after you have all this now, you can throw them in a charger.

One of those charger meters that uh test the capacity of those cells. So let's do that now, all right! So here we go. These are sand, flare, chargers, uh and you have to put them on a thing that is called norm test, which is normal test and what it will do. It'll discharge it and it'll charge it and then it'll discharge it again and then it'll record the capacity right.

Uh yeah, so once it does that then it'll it'll it'll mark it here what the capacities! Let's take a look at uh, what these are coming out to all right: here's, a box of fully tested ones. Let's look at what they're coming out here. We go that one is 2702 uh milliamp hours, here's another 2760 27.75. This one's a little bit beat up 27.92.

Look at that 27. 29. 27. 83.

28. 2815. 2758. 2789.

27. Okay, so you get. The idea. They're coming out are around 2 700 milliamp hours there.

You go so that's what you can expect out of these cells when you harvest them this way. So there you go, i'm gon na include links to where you can buy all these uh in the description of this video uh below uh go get em. If you need some cells, this is a great way to harvest good quality cells uh for not much money and would not much work right. So there you go a future video i'll show you how to connect them together so that you don't have to take them.

Apart right, because that's also possible, you don't have to break them down to the cell level, but for a lot of you guys, whatever the projects you guys are doing, it requires you to have cells, because then you're gon na assemble them in different ways right. So anyways thank you for watching this video we'll see you guys in the next one bye. Oh yeah, don't forget to hit that like button and if you haven't just go and subscribe, come on man come on help a brother out all right, see you in the next video bye. You.