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I have an electric toothbrush and been using it for over 5 plus years ago. Only thing i replace is those small brushes where you suppose to change them every three or six months etc. Recently i tried to charge my electric toothbrush and it did not charge.
When I did this, my electric toothbrush had zero charge and showed a red blinking signal which is normal. Sometimes I charge it when it has no more charge, other times when it has like one bar. It has three bars on it when full. So when it still has battery, it shows either one, two or three green bars when you click on it.
Now I did drop my electric toothbrush on the floor a few days ago though when it fell off the table by accident. I also threw away the small toothbrush since that fell on the floor since i have that connected to the whole thing. Then few days later when it ran out of battery, it did not charge when connecting to outlet. Also most importantly when i pressed on the electric toothbrush, it showed red blinking. This is when it is completely out of battery. Now when i press it now, there is no red blinking at all. I assume thats because when you still don't have it connected to battery, it would completely run out of any light.
Now does this mean I only need to buy the replacement charger and that would work? Or does that mean my electric toothbrush is now broken? The thing is i have a few times dropped my electric toothbrush on the floor before this. Note... I always put the electric toothbrush connected to the charging thing when i put it on the table. So when i drop it... the whole thing drops so to speak. I probably dropped it on the floor a few times before this at the absolute most.
Name of the electric toothbrush is called Oral B Professional Healthy Clean + Floss Action Precision 5000 Rechargeable Electric toothbrush. I see it on my amazon order history from years ago but when i click on it now, its no longer available and it looks completely different from the one i bought. Amazon shows it as Liberex Sonic Electric Toothbrush.
I don't want to spend over a hundred dollars plus for another one of these if there is a cheaper fix. Anyone know what I can do here? The electric toothbrush has still worked fine which is why I want to stick to it.
I like to know. But in the meantime, is it fine to brush your teeth with the electric toothbrush without it working but using it as with the small toothbrush connected to it? Or just use a regular full size toothbrush as is?
Also from checking online, it seems like there are lot of electric toothbrush in the fifty dollar and under range where it has great reviews. Are those good? Back then, i recalled all the good and recommended ones were at least one hundred dollars and up... but this was years ago.
But in the meantime, is it fine to brush your teeth with the electric toothbrush without it working but using it as with the small toothbrush connected to it? Or just use a regular full size toothbrush as is?
Of course it is. A brush is a brush. Either your muscles supply the energy or the motor does.
Also from checking online, it seems like there are lot of electric toothbrush in the fifty dollar and under range where it has great reviews. Are those good? Back then, i recalled all the good and recommended ones were at least one hundred dollars and up... but this was years ago.
The number of times you can recharge the battery pack to full capacity may differ between brands. Some may develop a "memory" that will shorten the capacity to take a charge. If you look carefully at all the reviews check how long the customer has actually used that brush. Any new one should work fine for a while. Years later, not so much. The statistical rate of failure may be higher or lower depending on the brand...or on luck. I don't know. Everyone makes claims. This is something I don't really care enough about to endlessly shop and compare. I've used a manual brush most of my life, but when a dentist suggested that I was brushing too hard and that an electric might discourage that tendency, I bought a Phillips Sonicare. I've used the same one with the same rechargeable battery for years without any problems. Someday the battery won't recharge. I'll replace it.
If you travel a lot an electric takes up more space in your luggage. If you tend to go places where there's no power the answer is obvious, though an electric can hold a charge for a pretty long time; easily over a weekend. If the battery dies you can always use it manually. No dental hygiene police will come arrest you if you do. If you are someone who chooses not to be dependent on electricity for everything a manual will be your choice.
There are endless debates about this or that toothbrush, manual versus electric. They will all clean your teeth. The point is, buy a brush and USE IT.
I had some similar issue with one of my electric tooth brushes some time ago. I unplugged it for a day or two. Did one of those resets on my in wall bathroom electrical charger. After a day [or two], I plugged the toothbrush back in for charging and then after that, it worked again. I'm not sure really whether it was the toothbrush unit or the in wall bathroom switch. Whatever. It worked. When my brush signals red, I'll charge it. As soon as it turns green, I'll promptly unplug it. So far, so good.
A lot of rechargeable devices use lipo/lithium ion batteries. These batteries hate being stored with uncharged for long periods of time; it actually damages them. Coming from the hobby of electric RC cars it is pretty common knowledge not to store them uncharged NOR overly discharge them; many electronics will cut off if the lipo voltage drops below a certain level. Its pretty important as RC cars have large batteries and can be fairly expensive. New batteries in packaging are partially charged specifically for being stored for long periods of time.
With that said, I've opened many devices to replace the internal battery. For the most part, it is fairly easy... some devices will require soldering, many will use standard plugs for easy servicing. I've never had a problem finding replacement equivalents online that have the same voltage (and similar capacity). Most are using standard batteries; example 18650. So depending on your comfort level opening up electronics, that is an option.
Other than that, I judging from the situation I would just buy another electric brush or use a manual one until I saved enough to buy a new one.
It might be the charger if the toothbrush is not lighting up anymore, the battery is dead or when dropped one of the solder connections on the circuit board broke.
You can buy a replacement charger base on AMZN for $10. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GBT6VQN...=1591910025491
I've been eyeing a combination brush and water flosser for $129.
But we've had our Oral B brushes since 2014; they're still going strong. Yikes, they were $27 then, $60 now. Makes the combo brush/flosser seem more affordable.
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