Ryobi battery firmware bug fix

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Quite an effort was put into finding the fault with these Ryobi batteries. A good example of what a lot of work can do!

Ryobi Battery Repair Guide

This is the repair deep dive for Ryobi 18V batteries. I go over common failure modes and ways to repair them. I focus mainly on the firmware lockout issue.

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I wonder how many millions of Ryobi batteries went to e-waste unnecessarily before they fixed the bug.

Great effort by the guy to find the bug and work out a fix.

 

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Ryobi should give him a job on the their tech team.