IglooHome Smart Padlock Disassembly

okay here we are going to look at the igloo home padlock that bosnian bill reviewed here i have one here we're going to actually mechanically take it apart and see how good it is just assure that it's working i can enter the key codes default settings 7890 press unlock opens right up also i got my phone app here going um i don't know what makes it beeping now [Music] that's kind of strange let's see we glue home oh unlock okay there we go all right so let's take it apart so i'm sitting here on an anti-static mat because then there's electronic components inside hope should i put on my anaesthetic wristband let's uh now we have to open the lock in order to uh take off the back cover here i got their little tool that comes with it okay once you get that loose then you can take off the battery cover pull out the battery and there's there's four little screws down inside here we're gonna take those out and take it apart now i've already started some disassembly here this little part this is the uh the shackle lock you can take the shackle out don't need that part if you look inside here there's four little screws this is the first one that came out they actually have a um like a triangular head on them but i found a little tiny screwdriver that would actually work so if we take these four screws out here i mean it's just a flat really tiny flat bead screwdriver but i can get it to work in there not a big deal it was kind of a pain to find one that would work i don't have the triangular bit anyway i've got the screws that you can see little screws here turn it over and look now oh this comes off so this is you can see that four holes here where the screws there would hold this cover on and we have the push button assembly here now if i take the push button assembly off just a little little pad here you can see we have the dome switches that actually operate it and look there's two screws here these are hold this circuit board on so i got my little screwdriver to fit in here take these screws out oops and then well here is the circuit board and there's another part in here we got this base of the lock um circuit board i think this is a little beeper here there's some chips here i want you to notice over here there's a little lever here we'll explore that a little later let me take this other cover off i think there's um several screws in here there's some ones down here three screws so let me get those loose oh i'm gonna put my wrist strap back on handle this thing so we got these other screws out they're little tiny screws here little tiny screws and i see that there's two more screws right in here so i have to loosen those up take those out not quite so we got that one loose we'll take this one loose those over there out of the way i think this plate comes loose as i remember i had this apart before okay now you can see the internals here's a motor over here this is the back of the battery pack this is the locking mechanism which is very interesting the circuit board and here's the back plate let me set this down i want you to notice something here see this little arm here can we see that when that's in there and the shackle goes down i'll try to demonstrate here with the shackling well i can't lock it at the moment because the locking mechanism is in there let's take out the locking mechanism this is interesting the motor's falling out well let's just take the whole thing out in just a moment i for i forgot if i take one more screw out here this screw yeah it's uh one of those crazy triple uh screws which is a real pain so i have to put in a different bit see if i can get it loose there we go it's not the right screwdriver but it works we can take that out dump it out over there and then this is the uh the jumper assembly that you would put in the batteries now furthermore we can actually get two screws that hold this this the back of this battery pack assembly what holds the battery in they're really tiny and way down in there there's one here take that out dump the little screw out and there's one over here okay let's see if we can get that loose am i making any progress it's hard to tell i think so okay we got that screw now it's loose here comes the battery pack assembly this is what holds the battery pack and since i took this screw out for the uh that holes in the jumper terminals i think as a this is a little strap that holds the battery in there that allows you to remove the battery and now as i remember this thing slips right out as well so i've taken that screw out whoops i actually pushed it out now we have the whole the whole bloody assembly here's the motor the circuit board here we got the battery pack we got the emergency jumper so here's the lock body shackle goes in here that goes on this side what i actually wanted to show you see this little notch down in here when the uh this plate is on here it actually pushes this little flapper thing up see this little i don't know if we can see that but that actually when that flapper goes up on the circuit board here i have to orient myself so it comes through and it's detected by these two little of things here it sits in between there and that tells it that the lock is locked and somehow it tells the circuitry to go ahead and lock run the motor to lock the lock sorry i didn't get that very clear so here we go the motor moves this piece back and forth this is the locking assembly so if we take the shackle here drop it in there and this motor goes that way then this will not come unlocked but when the motor slides this over and this comes out the shackle will come out so let's take a look at this locking assembly here this is the little locking assembly so i pull this part out which usually comes right out these are the locking poles here and these push in and allows this locks either side of the shackle but if this part is in there then these cannot push in this is a very ingenious little mechanism here i don't know if i'm showing it very well it does come out so what does the motor do the motor look at the motor has this little arm on it that goes over and energizes the locking it pulls on that little bracket there sits in this little slot and it rotates and pulls this in or out and it has the motor has a little gearbox inside here it takes quite a few revolutions to rotate this from about 90 degrees we'll be looking at that so what i wanted to show here is this is where the shackle goes this little pocket here is where the motor goes and this slides along through here what pulls the shackle back so perhaps um i can talk lock picking lawyer to try to do some magnetic modifications magnetic spinning or whatever to try to spin the armature so this is right right in this pocket is where the the motor sits right in here like this get it in there sits in there like that [Music] so i wanted to look at this give me a little pointer actually this is an led up here this is a light emitting diode and they have little little leds here that illuminate the keyboard keypad when you press the dome switches so that's pretty cool very well made all the solder points on here so that's just a big led up there i'm out of focus here on the back side here's the circuit board we're going to go in and take some close-ups of this because i think it's out of focus i mean this this part here i think is the beeper the beeps we got some circuitry in here i'm not the circuitry expert but we'll take some close-ups of this stuff for you guys okay i made a mistake earlier i wanted to show you i pushed this down and this little uh flapper comes up see this little item here goes up and down well when the circuit board is on there like this um this actually sits this away so what it hits that flapper is this little switch here this little s1 this is a tiny little switch i can push it with my finger very gently that's one there boy that didn't focus very well so anyway i said it was this other part over here but it's it's s1 that little switch so when the shackle is all the way down it tells the circuit board to uh turn on the motor in the opposite direction and lock the lock so a couple of things i wanted to point out is you know this is this that locks the lock when this motor drives this over this way then it can come open you can see these little little doodads coming in and you push it in you know it comes in and out but this uh what you're not going to defeat that i mean this is a pretty solid body lock i mean what has to be done is this has to be moved out so i suppose you could drill a hole through the side of the lock catch onto that somehow or try to drill a hole in it and spin the motor but other than destructive i don't see a good way to defeat this lock other than destructive so that's what i wanted to point out there i mean it's a pretty solid body it's not you know i don't know what this material is if it's a zinc cast it's pretty uh substantial zinc so i don't you know i i think this lock is pretty well made i don't know how safe and secure the electronics part is talking to over through bluetooth and all that stuff that's not my department i'm looking the mechanical parts of this lock and i think it's quite secure so i would approve it mechanically so here we're looking at the little motor assembly i mean you can't you cannot just turn this it's really stiff i mean i've taken this little black gear box apart and it's just a real nightmare inside it's got an actual little planetary gear system there's a small pinion on the motor that drives three sets of of a pinion gears that go into a ring gear that turns this actuator so it takes quite a few revolutions of the motor to rotate this thing 90 degrees so you can't just force this there's no way to force it i mean the motor is solid this way so you know if you drilled into the side of it maybe you could put a little prong in there and keep trying to rotate the armature and stuff but you ain't if you even were to pull on the side of the lock and drill into this you're not going to turn this piece so somehow you have to get the motor to spin so you may have noticed in the last shot i broke the lead off the motor what i got here is a little little one and a half volt battery i've just taped up with some wire okay alligator clipped a little jerry rig thing on here we're gonna try to make this motor run what a pain i had it going here in a minute ago okay i've jury rigged it again here we go here you can see the motor running with one and a half volts see that going no man i'm out of camera so that's we have to spin the armature this is one and a half volt so it's you know the battery that runs this lock is three volts so obviously if i reverse the polarity it's going to go the other way so you can see that spinning the armature is going to take quite a few revolutions of the armature to move the lock pad now i got to remember where i had it okay i've got the soldering iron and i re-soldered the motor and there it is try to reassemble this baby it's broken so if you can believe it i reassembled the padlock [Music] i mean i didn't cheat this is not a beginning video this is afterwards i had to solder the motor connection and all that crap and i broke another wire i had to solder that let's try it with the cell phone and see if the wi-fi the bluetooth thing still works let's see here we gotta look for some apps igloo home oh and i gotta turn on the bluetooth this is irritating and i have to turn on location which is really irritating it's like a spy phone so done let's try this again well it still works so ken's padlock is open ken's padlock is now closed there we go [Music] okay still works so thanks for watching i think it's uh i've proven that it's mechanically a pretty good lock and robustness that withstand my resoldering wires and meddling with screws and all this stuff so i give it an approval thanks for watching you

Channel: Ken Nixon

Views: 4,139

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Id: BnONCrifB8g

Length: 20min 23sec (1223 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 13 2020