I had a pod fail just minutes after putting it on. Leaked insulin out all over my arm. Got ticked at it, so I took it apart. Here is a link to a picture of its’ insides.
Before I started using the pod, I had a sample (fake) pod that I tried to fill with water and a syringe…that caused an awful alarm to go off, and the only way I could ‘kill’ it was to kill the pod with a hammer The plastic shell never actually broke. I just beat it to death until it stopped ringing…
I took it apart too, which was MUCH harder than I expected it to be. Seeing the winding mechanism and the self-serter device and understanding how it all operates was pretty cool. It’s cool that so few pieces of plastic and some metal are required to keep us healthy
Any clue as to what the two springs are that touch the copper disk on the ‘roof’ of the pod? I couldn’t decide if that was part of the RF receiver or something else entirely…
Bradford- I’m pretty sure the 2 springs act as conductors for the alarm beeper. The disk is essentially a small diaphragm, like in a speaker. A small voltage applied to it causes it to vibrate at a high frequency…a beep. You would see this inside of digital watches and other microelectronic devices that make noise as well. I took one apart a few weeks ago too and was amazed at how bullet-proof the housing was! And the winding mechanism was indeed pretty cool. I turned it a bunch of times until it “inserted”. Scared the @%*! out of me.
I take every one of mine apart to get the batteries out. They are great for my kid’s music books that take that kind of battery. I just use pliers, on either side and it pops open no problem.