Anyone tried this? I saw instructions and it does not seem too terribly difficult as long as you know your way around a board and can solder. Am I completely wrong? Really thinking about trying this, maybe this week.
anyone else have any productive input? I know that if you screw it up then its junk but hey...thats with everything. I am all about DIY. Kind of a "built not bought" philosophy, plus I guess I like seeing how things operate instead of just opening a box and pluggingit in / bolting it on.
im not big into electronics and i did my own FICM repair, it was cake. I cannot see paying someone to do what took me 15 minutes of soldering. you send it off you still have to take it out and put it back in...the hardest part.
if u don't have a clue on how a soldering iron works /what wattage to use /and what solder to use/ I would avoid it or practice ,practice first ,,
or play it safe and send it out if u have the time and coin
I just ordered all of the parts to attempt the 58v mod. I am not a professional solderer either. I will post results. Mine blew one of the FETs and the voltage was 46-49v cruising and always bouncing around. Give it a little more pedal and it dropped to 32v. Yanked it out and pulled it apart to find that MOSFET blew up. I ordered all 8 caps and 8 FETs. Forgot to order the 0805 size resistor 18kohm to adjust the power. I may just do the piggyback resistor mod because they are much easier to find locally.
I took mine to work and had our electronics guy do it. he said the hardest part is soldering the new small resistor and removing the old solder with out damaging the board. I also had a hard time finding the exact resin to but back into the FICM. I ending up ordering the one specified in the manual and it cost 85.00 but the place i got it from normally doesnt do small orders... they helped me out.
Did you upgrade the rest of the components too? I'm having trouble locating all of the components. Some I can find, others are a min buy of 1000 pcs or out of stock or something along those lines. I'd love to try this, I've already fixed numerous stockers back to 48V.
I feel the pain. I got so excited about doing the 58V mod only to get let down because i couldn't locate all the parts without buying 1k pieces or so. Somebody has to know where to get the parts from. Please help...
Got most of the parts for my mod from element 14. I think the website is element-14.com. Can't remeber what I paid for everything but if I recall it was like $85. It's been 8 months since I did mine and not one problem. Hope this helps.
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