How To Revive Discharged Gopro Batteries
got a GoPro with a dead battery like completely dead and won't turn on ours discharged all the way and couldn't be revived by the camera but we can bring it back to life with an Adafruit lipoly battery charger.
and here's how solder to header pins to the jst cable that comes with your charger carefully position them in the Clippy connectors on the battery make sure you get the polarity right but check out our guide on the Adafruit learning system to learn more then plug in the charger and plug the charger into a powered USB port like one from a powered hub or an AC adapter or directly on your computer not the ones on your keyboard .
you don't need to completely charge the battery this way just enough so the GoPro can do its thing after just a few minutes charging at 500 milliamps this battery boots up the GoPro which can charge it the rest of the way then you can get back to what you really wanted to do with your GoPro like put it on the dog or on a drone or you know in the washing machine happy filming and subscribe for more DIY electronics projects from Adafruit you
got a GoPro with a dead battery like completely dead and won't turn on ours discharged all the way and couldn't be revived by the camera but we can bring it back to life with an Adafruit lipoly battery charger.
and here's how solder to header pins to the jst cable that comes with your charger carefully position them in the Clippy connectors on the battery make sure you get the polarity right but check out our guide on the Adafruit learning system to learn more then plug in the charger and plug the charger into a powered USB port like one from a powered hub or an AC adapter or directly on your computer not the ones on your keyboard .
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you don't need to completely charge the battery this way just enough so the GoPro can do its thing after just a few minutes charging at 500 milliamps this battery boots up the GoPro which can charge it the rest of the way then you can get back to what you really wanted to do with your GoPro like put it on the dog or on a drone or you know in the washing machine happy filming and subscribe for more DIY electronics projects from Adafruit you
