Had this issue with mine. Took it apart and tried to clean the sensors but that didn't cut it. Tossed it and bought the latest model used for it to also fail after about 2 months. I wasn't about to replace that stupid thing again. Once I saw what you were doing here, I didn't even bother dealing with those stupid sensors and went straight to purchasing motor speed controllers and threw those in. I didn't buy the rocker switch as the controllers can turn to off. Thanks for the idea 4 years later!
Thanks! Your video pointed me in the right direction. Simply replacing the green bundle of wires, which tells the brain what the status of the sensors are, was enough to fix the problem for me (2014 model). With the Mamaroo running, I just pinched along the length of green wire until it suddenly tried to correct itself and then shut off. It's basically a result of a cheap, brittle bundle of wires that are being pulled back and forth tens of thousands of times in a year. It's gotta wear out at some point. Not bad design, per say, but definitely low effort design choice.
freaking GENIUs BROTHA!!!!!!! Im gonna attempt this however im gonna try to keep the mother board in tack so i can use the other feature, just gonna have to get creative with putting it all back together lol
Kickass! Just bought a used Mamaroo for $80 which failed before our son was even born. I was able to order the same PWM controllers that you did and got it working again. Thanks for making this video!
Hey this was really great and just what I was looking for!! Question, is the timer disconnected now? I bought one of these to use for a crafting project and I want to disconnect the timer so that it will run without stopping.. Is that possible?
Good question. I should have been more specific. I spliced the wires directly in the connectors that were used to connect to the main switch. The positive (red) wire coming from the power supply goes directly to the switch with a spoon female connector. No splice required. Then the "load" coming out of the switch needs a wire for each speed controller so you'll need to splice two wires together in the female spoon connector. That's the setup that had the white electrical tape around it. Each one of those wires goes to one of the speed controller switches. The output for the speed controller goes directly to the motor (red wire). For the ground wire - it was basically the same thing - but you don't have a ground "output" on the switch. In fact - most switches won't need a ground wire at all. But my switch had an LED light in it so I needed to get a ground wire to it. I also needed to get the ground to the speed controllers. The easiest way to do this is to splice two separate wires to the black wire coming from the power supply into a female spoon connector. The spoon connector will plug into the switch and the other two will go to the speed controllers. Then the ground (black) wires from the motors also connect to the speed controllers. I think that's it. Good luck! It's pretty simple. For the little spoon female connectors you'll want some kind of crimping tool to make sure all the connections are solid and secure. After you crimp the wires into the connectors - give them a little tug to make sure they won't pop out real easy. If they do - it won't hold together. So get another connector and try again.
Had this issue with mine. Took it apart and tried to clean the sensors but that didn't cut it. Tossed it and bought the latest model used for it to also fail after about 2 months. I wasn't about to replace that stupid thing again. Once I saw what you were doing here, I didn't even bother dealing with those stupid sensors and went straight to purchasing motor speed controllers and threw those in. I didn't buy the rocker switch as the controllers can turn to off.
Thanks for the idea 4 years later!
Thanks! Your video pointed me in the right direction. Simply replacing the green bundle of wires, which tells the brain what the status of the sensors are, was enough to fix the problem for me (2014 model). With the Mamaroo running, I just pinched along the length of green wire until it suddenly tried to correct itself and then shut off. It's basically a result of a cheap, brittle bundle of wires that are being pulled back and forth tens of thousands of times in a year. It's gotta wear out at some point. Not bad design, per say, but definitely low effort design choice.
freaking GENIUs BROTHA!!!!!!! Im gonna attempt this however im gonna try to keep the mother board in tack so i can use the other feature, just gonna have to get creative with putting it all back together lol
Kickass! Just bought a used Mamaroo for $80 which failed before our son was even born. I was able to order the same PWM controllers that you did and got it working again. Thanks for making this video!
Hey this was really great and just what I was looking for!! Question, is the timer disconnected now? I bought one of these to use for a crafting project and I want to disconnect the timer so that it will run without stopping.. Is that possible?
Yes - the timer is disconnected. It will keep running until you turn the switches off.
Nice video but it would have been nice to see how you attached the wires to the switch and potentiometer, but nice anyway, thanks.
yah me too.
Thank you! You save me!
Brilliant
Thanks for the video! How did you splice the wires? Rather, what configuration for the switches and wires
? Going to hop on this project this weekend.
Good question. I should have been more specific. I spliced the wires directly in the connectors that were used to connect to the main switch. The positive (red) wire coming from the power supply goes directly to the switch with a spoon female connector. No splice required. Then the "load" coming out of the switch needs a wire for each speed controller so you'll need to splice two wires together in the female spoon connector. That's the setup that had the white electrical tape around it. Each one of those wires goes to one of the speed controller switches. The output for the speed controller goes directly to the motor (red wire).
For the ground wire - it was basically the same thing - but you don't have a ground "output" on the switch. In fact - most switches won't need a ground wire at all. But my switch had an LED light in it so I needed to get a ground wire to it. I also needed to get the ground to the speed controllers. The easiest way to do this is to splice two separate wires to the black wire coming from the power supply into a female spoon connector. The spoon connector will plug into the switch and the other two will go to the speed controllers. Then the ground (black) wires from the motors also connect to the speed controllers.
I think that's it. Good luck! It's pretty simple. For the little spoon female connectors you'll want some kind of crimping tool to make sure all the connections are solid and secure. After you crimp the wires into the connectors - give them a little tug to make sure they won't pop out real easy. If they do - it won't hold together. So get another connector and try again.
Lo malo que no explica como conecto los cables
Greetings I have a mamaroo but I have a problem, it turns on but it does not work tell me recline unlocked, you know why it is