What do the different flashing light colors mean on a Ninja Blast?

[Thomas Martinez]

found this while reading about a Ninja Blast portable blender that wont turn on. I figured I'd toss this out there as other has seen this same issue.
According to manufacturer, there are four reason the device will not turn on. When first troubleshooting, the LED will flash to tell you an issue.
If the LED flash red the battery is too low to power on. Flashing yellow indicate the jar isnt properly aligned with base. Flashing orange indicate the blade are jammed with an object. If the battery itself is going bad the voltage will read low and you will need to replace the 18650 cells.

 

[Shiny Shark]

opened mine last summer, it was 2x 18650s in series and honest the cells tested fine. Ended up being a cold solder joint on the switch board. Spent like 3 hrs for nothing lol

 

[British Un]

Yellow for alignment are the big one imo. Half the thread I see on the ninja subreddit involve people slamming the jar down but not twisting it until it click.

 

[Profession]

wait does the orange flash only happen with something stuck to the blade or will it happen with frozen fruit too? Only happen once with hard ice cube on mine.

 

[Obedient Oyst]

these thing are landfill fodder. $50 blender with proprietary cell, just buy a nutribullet and move on

 

[Proud]

Worth it? Absolutely not. You’d think having quality 18650 cell and a spot welder would be in the budget. Even with tabbed cells you’d have to account for time and labor to take it apart and reassemble which make it close to 80% the price of a new blender. Unless you’re doing it for fun and you already own the part it’s not worth it. I do this stuff for a living and even I would not do it for a Ninja Blast. The BMS is solder to the cells and the casing is ultrasonic welded in two spot. People think it’s easy to replace 18650 cells but its not. YouTube video make it look easy but that’s not how these cheap appliance are made. Save your weekend.