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I set the dials to 24V and 1.67A, like the label on Neato charging dock’s power supply, and hooked up the wires.
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I then did what, in hindsight, I should have done as my first step: tried charging my vacuum with a bench power supply. This behavior indicated no permanent damage was done, but that I had tripped some sort of internal protection mechanism. I thought maybe I burned out something, but if I unplug the power supply and plug it back in, its output open circuit voltage was back up to 24V. The output voltage on the power supply had dropped to under 1V and remained there. The Neato woke up as if it saw a power source, but two seconds later it acted as if the power source went away. First I verified the open circuit voltage was 24V, then I clipped it to the vacuum. The HP power supply label said 24V 1.5A, which is slightly lower than 24V 1.67A listed on the supply inside a Neato dock, but I thought it was worth a try. The first candidate was a power supply with HP branding. Since I didn’t have a good way to make contact with a Neato’s charging strips, I opened up my robot vacuum and rigged up a test configuration using clip leads on my crowded workbench. I bought two 24V DC power supplies similar to that inside a Neato charging dock at the W6TRW swap meet.
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Hers had the advantage of a charging dock so we could open one up to see how it worked.Īrmed with that knowledge, I thought I’d try to build my own replacement charging dock for my Neato XV-21. I made enough progress to catch ’s interest, who saw another Neato robot vacuum in a thrift store and bought it. I originally thought I would buy it just for parts but it’s been a long and interesting adventure poking at how these robot vacuums worked. When I found my Neato XV-21 in a thrift store, it wouldn’t power on and it didn’t have its charging dock.