Replaced the battery in my electric toothbrush.

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The battery of my 5+ year old tooth brush was losing its power. I'm sure I could have bought a new electric toothbrush for the price of the $31 replacement battery, but IT'S THE PRINCIPLE OF THE THING!

Shouldn't have to buy an entirely new electric toothbrush just because the battery died.

So I took it apart, unsoldered about 8 things, and took it all apart. Today the battery arrived. I put it all back together and it works!

 

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Nice fix and all (as I can appreciate the fix) but I never saw a reason to use electric toothbrushes in general. a decent manual one is just as good as I have had the same routine for many years. which in short (in this particular order)... floss(properly),Listerine,brush tongue well,rinse,brush teeth(with Crest Pro-Health tooth paste for 2-3min),rinse thoroughly,Act (for at least 1 full minute),spit out (don't rinse and wait at least 30 minutes before eating or drinking anything).

the way I see it, that's about as good as one can get when it comes to taking care of their teeth (short of not eating sugar etc, which is probably not realistic for most people not to have some sugar). electric toothbrushes simply ain't worth it when a quality manual toothbrush will work just as good and are cheaper to.

 

On 30/09/2023 at 13:21, Warwagon said:

Shouldn't have to buy an entirely new electric toothbrush just because the battery died.

Agreed.

but that's why I am generally not a fan of devices that don't use standard AA/AAA batteries (but I use NiMh for the re-charge factor) because then I can easily swap them with quality replacements (i.e. Eneloop AA/AAA's which are NiMh). because on devices that use these (standard AA/AAA NiMh), you never have to worry about the battery dying before the device itself fails. because it seems with many random electronic devices that use rechargeable lithium, the battery goes bad and you basically have to dump the device because you can't get a quality replacement battery. but if you can use standard AA/AAA, as long as the device itself does not malfunction, it will last a very long time.

p.s. that's pretty much why I had to dump a Sandisk Sansa e200 series player because you can no longer get quality replacement batteries for it, which is a shame as it's still a pretty good general audio playback device (with Rockbox on it). but I switched to a cheap generic china made MP3 player which runs on a single AAA of which I use a NiMh and it runs roughly 10-12hrs on a single charge. trade off is navigating it's menu's is slow (like one of those earlier 2000's MP3 players) etc. but as long as the device does not fail, I can use that for decades to come. that's why it would have been far better if Sandisk designed that player to run on AA or AAA's as then the thing would still be working like-new.

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On 30/09/2023 at 17:15, ThaCrip said:

Nice fix and all (as I can appreciate the fix) but I never saw a reason to use electric toothbrushes in general. a decent manual one is just as good as I have had the same routine for

I like it because It's got a nice round tip, letting me get all the back in the hard-to-reach spots. Now I also floss after every meal, which helps a lot too.

Another reason I didn't want to buy another electric toothbrush is that I had a collection of new brush heads that I found at a Bin store and at Retail Rebal.

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That's a lot of circuitry for a power switch, charging circuit, and a 2-minute timer...