Matty PKE teardown and IONA comparison (pic intensive)

:expressionless: umm…what?

Boxes don’t weigh much and the box is pretty much the size of the PKE so I’m guessing no. :whatever:

well, yeah, I got it sent with the box… I wanted all the whishels and bells :slight_smile:

Resurrecting an old thread here… I recently got a PKE meter off of eBay. I plan on dismantling it so I can upgrade some parts. The battery cover came off easily enough by removing the four screws, but I simply can’t figure out how to get the inner back cover off so that I can get to the internals. It seems like it’s glued down, rather than just snapped together. I’m considering resorting to using a heat gun to loosen things up, but I’m afraid I’ll melt the case itself.

How did you get your inner back cover off?

Thanks!

– Joe

Unless they changed the design for the second run of PKEs there a second set of 6 screws you have to remove. They’re the 2 holes above and 2 holes below the top 2 batteries and the 2 holes on either side of the lower battery. Basically all the holes that are revealed after taking the battery cover off.

Ah, so I’m an idiot. :slight_smile: The screw holes are incredibly obvious, and I didn’t even see them when I was looking at it. Overlooking the obvious does not bode well for my project…

Thanks!

– Joe

Has anyone had any problems with their arms when going to the two extended positions? My meter will move to almost fully extended for the mid-range, and then move about an inch more for the fully extended arm range. I was figuring that it was the gearing, but after looking at these and taking mine apart for inspection, I’m leaning more towards bad contact placement on the PCB on the backside of the gearbox.

Thoughts? I’ll throw a video in here if you want to see what I mean.

Yeah, wouldnt mind a video. The only issue I ever had with mine was it would intermittently cycle the arms up and down when switching on or off.

And there are also apparently two different sound chips, one really irritatingly loud and one fainter than the both the trap and wand. Perhaps the differences between v1 and v2 releases.