5 Moons Mods

5 Moons
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Do you have any photos showing how you installed the battery to the 5 Moons? (Which traces to cut/solder) I suspect you used nearly the same components as the Wingie2 battery mod. Thx!

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Hi,

I couldn’t find any pictures of the process, but here is the end result. Looks like I had to take the USB connector off the board to get it to fit precisely. I might also have had to reverse the polarity of the battery at the connector to align with what the board expects.

Hope this helps!

IMG_1218
IMG_12184032×3024 2.5 MB

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IMG_12194032×3024 1.93 MB

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IMG_12204032×3024 2.18 MB

IMG_1221
IMG_12214032×3024 1.83 MB

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IMG_12224032×3024 1.76 MB

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IMG_12234032×3024 1.47 MB

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Just ordered the parts for this mod. So excited to take 5 Moons to a new level. Quick question about the red daughterboard: do you always have to leave it switched on in order for the soft power button to engage the battery?

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I want to do this. I presume the red and black wires are +/-. What are yellow and green? And what are they connecting to and from? Thanks.

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Hey Nico - having a little difficulty with my modded 5 moons - I managed to do the mod successfully, but I have questions about the way that the daughterboard works / whether it’s worth desoldering the switch to let power flow freely when the soft switch is pressed.

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Reviving this thread to let anyone interested in battery modifying their 5 moons that it’s possible, and the trick is to add an external SPST switch to the top-left corner of the enclosure by drilling a 1/4 hole into the 3D printed black back plate and soldering it to the red daughterboard’s “EXT SWITCH” terminal. the smaller the switch, the better, as the space between the vertical post and the edge of the enclosure is pretty tight, but this switch will prevent the battery from being always switched on and drawing power unnecessarily while 5 moons is switched off.

I’ve also been having a tremendous amount of fun switching between the alternate firmwares (the Slices and Layers firmware, the 5m hack/locked looping firmware, the delays firmware, the mono and stereo original firmware patches, and the yellow modified firmware) just by switching the name of the file from “pd-delays” to “pd” and renaming the previous one.

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