{"id":5986,"date":"2022-07-09T21:27:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T02:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=5986"},"modified":"2022-07-09T21:27:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T02:27:23","slug":"fixing-my-neato-x11-robot-vacuum-lcd-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/09\/fixing-my-neato-x11-robot-vacuum-lcd-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing my Neato X11 robot vacuum LCD screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:110,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.robotreviews.com\\\/chat\\\/viewtopic.php?f=20&amp;t=19263&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.robotreviews.com\\\/chat\\\/viewtopic.php?f=20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:111,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.robotreviews.com\\\/chat\\\/viewtopic.php?f=20&amp;t=19263&amp;start=120#p148386&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.robotreviews.com\\\/chat\\\/viewtopic.php?f=20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<div class=\"postbody\">\n<div class=\"content\">I&#8217;ve lived with a blank screen on my Neato X11 vacuum robot for a few years, but recently the robot started to beep error messages and refused to start up correctly, and I couldn&#8217;t figure out what the problem was without the screen.<\/p>\n<p>So I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robotreviews.com\/chat\/viewtopic.php?f=20&amp;t=19263\">this thread<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robotreviews.com\/chat\/viewtopic.php?f=20&amp;t=19263&amp;start=120#p148386\">this specific post<\/a> and decided that injecting 12 volts to the c5 line would be worth trying (I&#8217;m NOT going to go to the effort of replacing the entire LCD, especially if I have to remove polarized sheets and reverse it ;&gt; )<\/p>\n<p>I used a 78L12 12v 100ma linear regulator (TO-92 package) because it was inexpensive and small.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/PowerSupply-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5987\" src=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/PowerSupply-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/PowerSupply-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/PowerSupply-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/PowerSupply-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/PowerSupply-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/PowerSupply-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/PowerSupply-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/c5-power-injection-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/c5-power-injection-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/c5-power-injection-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/c5-power-injection-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/c5-power-injection-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/c5-power-injection-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/c5-power-injection-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/c5-power-injection-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"content\">Of course, I added in a lot of hot glue for stress relief&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stress-relief1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5989\" src=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stress-relief1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stress-relief1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stress-relief1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stress-relief1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stress-relief1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stress-relief1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stress-relief1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stress-relief2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5990\" src=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stress-relief2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stress-relief2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stress-relief2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stress-relief2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stress-relief2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stress-relief2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stress-relief2-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThanks to AlainCAN, this fixed my LCD and I can now read the error message (fan was stuck, I found\/removed a rice grain and that fixed things right up!).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I somehow appear to have broken the LED&#8217;s (backlight for LCD as well as the button LEDs). I&#8217;m not sure if this is related to this throwaway line in Alain&#8217;s post:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"uncited\">\n<div>By the way, don&#8217;t forget to replace the C10 capacitor as it can cause trubbles later (dimmed light green led).<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Or perhaps I just forgot to plug something in&#8230;.. but I can read the screen, which is better than having LED&#8217;s without being able to read the screen, so I&#8217;m going to count it as an overall success.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve lived with a blank screen on my Neato X11 vacuum robot for a few years, but recently the robot started to beep error messages and refused to start up correctly, and I couldn&#8217;t figure out what the problem was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/09\/fixing-my-neato-x11-robot-vacuum-lcd-screen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5991,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986\/revisions\/5991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}