Halloween.com PKE Meter battery mod

Halloween.com PKE Meter battery mod#4981777

By Gatchigirl - April 29th, 2023, 4:11 am

- April 29th, 2023, 4:11 am#4981777

I decided to add a rechargeable battery pack and charging port to my Halloween dot com PKE Meter. This thing is a slightly more screen accurate on the case. The handle is more square than the Spirit/Rubies one but shares the electronics from it. I also changed out the LED's in the wings because they were green with the ones in the Spirit Meter. Here's a photo of the completed mod. This was just before I secured the battery and left the charger where I can access it by opening the battery door and not opening up the whole meter. It was just a simple solder the charger into the positive side of the switch and the negative off the meter for the batteries. Took about an hour with the cutting I had to do with the battery compartment to make the thing close properly.

Notice in the second image of the meter, that the handle is square and then more rounded towards the buttons. In fact it uses the same buttons as the Spirit/Rubies Meter.

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Re: Halloween.com PKE Meter battery mod#4997179

By ravencro - April 26th, 2024, 10:13 am

- April 26th, 2024, 10:13 am#4997179

Nearly a year later and I am looking to do the same thing to my PKE Meter. This post has been super helpful and just this photo alone is really useful to me. Would love to know how it held up? Would love to know exactly the parts you got for this. I got some things already, but would like to know if I am close to what you've done here. Thanks!

Re: Halloween.com PKE Meter battery mod#4997181

By Gatchigirl - April 26th, 2024, 12:34 pm

- April 26th, 2024, 12:34 pm#4997181

Seems to be fine and still working good. The charging module is TP4056 Charging Module with Battery Protection. And the battery I used is Lithium Polymer Battery 3.7V 820mAh 653042. Both bought from Amazon.

Virgo. Avid skier. Gluten-full. And 100% jazzed to meet you. -- Jillian Holtzmann

Re: Halloween.com PKE Meter battery mod#4997183

By ravencro - April 26th, 2024, 2:04 pm

- April 26th, 2024, 2:04 pm#4997183

Thanks so much! I'll let you know if it works for me too.

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Re: Halloween.com PKE Meter battery mod#4997185

By Gatchigirl - April 26th, 2024, 3:03 pm

- April 26th, 2024, 3:03 pm#4997185

Cool, should work fine for you. Let me know how it comes out.

Virgo. Avid skier. Gluten-full. And 100% jazzed to meet you. -- Jillian Holtzmann

Re: Halloween.com PKE Meter battery mod#4997218

By ravencro - April 27th, 2024, 8:02 pm

- April 27th, 2024, 8:02 pm#4997218

I'd love a photo of how you wired up the charging module. I connected it everything the way I thought it should work and I can't get the PKE meter to turn on UNLESS I have it plugged in to charge. At first I was disappointed when it did not turn on and then I plugged in the USB to and it sprung to life. But I can't get it to turn on when it isn't plugged in.