# Pill Wireless Charger Upgrade - Installation

This new wireless charging upgrade enables you to charge the pill hydrometer without the need for open and closing the housing.

Upgrading to wireless charging is a significant upgrade to the pill hydrometer as it means the pill hydrometer doesn’t require repeated opening and closing and this has several advantages including:

1. It reduces the chance of damaging one of the two o-rings giving you a more reliable seal
2. It eliminates the chance that the housing is done up to a different torque resulting in less accurate results
3. It make charging easier and more convenient
4. You can now access the Pill Captive Portal without needing to open the housing. This is much more convenient and also negates the need to re-calibrate the RAPT Pill Hydrometer every time you assess the Pill Captive Portal

### Install Pill Hydrometer Wireless Charger Upgrade

### Video Guide

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Pill Wireless Charging Installation Guide
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### Replace weights

Open the pill housing and remove the 5 gram weight from the bottom of the pill and replace it with the 3.5 gram weight. Repeat this process for the weight at the top of the board.&#x20;

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### Attach wireless charging ring&#x20;

After the weights have been replaced, attach the two adhesive spacers to the weight at the bottom of the board. stick the wireless charging ring to the base of the pill.&#x20;

The order is: Weight: Solid piece: Half moon piece: Charging coil. The cutout of the half moon piece should align with the cutout of the board.

Ensure this is installed at the centre of the PCB board so it doesn’t get crushed when the pill housing is closed again.

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Once installed, check that everything is aligned as in the image below.

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### Plug in USB-C cord

Plug the USB type C cord into the Type C socket on the PCB board

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### Install Board into housing

Reinstall the 18650 Li-ion battery, ensuring correct polarity (if removed). Place the pill PCB board and charging coil into the housing ensuring the wireless charging coil sits in the centre of the housing as shown below.

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Tighten the housing until the bottom o-ring is covered to ensure a hermetic seal is formed.
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### Calibrate Pill

Close the housing back up and then perform Calibration process. We highly recommend using the Advanced (2-point) calibration process once the wireless charging coil has been put into the housing.

The easiest way to do this is right before a brew.

Simply put the pill into 20°C sanitiser solution and calibrate the first point at 1.000 gravity then put the pill into your unfermented wort and calibrate at the known starting gravity (use a second, calibrated hydrometer to complete this calibration process).

Refer to [Calibration ](https://docs.rapt.io/equipment/rapt-pill-hydrometer/calibration)for a detailed guide to [Standard](https://docs.rapt.io/equipment/rapt-pill-hydrometer/calibration/standard-calibration), [Advanced ](https://docs.rapt.io/equipment/rapt-pill-hydrometer/calibration/advanced-calibration)and [Custom ](https://docs.rapt.io/equipment/rapt-pill-hydrometer/calibration/custom-calibration)Calibration
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IMPORTANT NOTE: To access the Pill Captive Portal when the Wireless Charging Kit is installed simply place the Pill on the charging base. If the Pill is already charging, remove the Pill from the charging base and place it back on after 10 seconds.

If the Pill Captive Portal cannot be ccessed (the green LEDs do not flash and the Captive Portal cannot be seen as a WFi Network, the battery may be at too low a charge level.

The 18650 Li-ion battery needs a minimum charge level to access the Pill Captive Portal when using the wireless cahrger. Leave the Pill to charge for at least 12 hours before trying to access the Pill Captive Portal.