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by ToucanLoucan 344 days ago
This shit should genuinely get your company hauled into court and fined significantly. Render batteries unrecoverable to save, what, a penny on your BOM? Fucking pathetic.

Engineers need a union. I'm sure this was a bean counter decision and not something they wanted to do.
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bboygravity 344 days ago
As an EE I feel this was either extreme incompetence (unlikely) or deliberate planned obsolescence.

Battery packs can be expensive and have huge margin if you make them (mechanically) fit only 1 year of 1 model of 1 brand. Which is exactly what Dyson seems to be doing.

Designing BMS'es so that the batteries (safely) fail as quickly as possible is not hard.

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