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Battery failures on Vantage Vue?
xcesmess:
About two weeks ago I picked up a new Vantage Vue and have loved it since the first day I turned it online. It has definitely been a step up from the WMR-968 I had before! :)
Unfortunately today it took a spill for the worst and I wanted to see if others have had the same problem. A few days after putting the station online I noticed it was giving a 'LOW TRANSMITTER BATTERY 1' error message on the console. We had some cloudy days and it was right before a snow storm so I just figured the dormant battery was low and needed a charge. A good sunny day later and the message went away -- for a day. The message inevitably came back so I gave up and just replaced the battery before the next storm came in -- this tme the message never went away. Two weeks have passed now and the ISS finally gave up and was reporting 163 degrees outside and 100% humidity. I went outside and the unit was off completely. Putting a new battery into the unit, it seems to be back online and reporting fine without the 'low battery' message.
I sent an e-mail to Davis' support but sadly never received a response (I hope that isn't the trend).
Any anyone else experienced this? These are supposed to be 10 year lithium batteries so I'd hate to see them go dead so quickly. My hunch is that I might have a faulty solar panel or the ISS charging circuit is bad.
Any advice would be great!
Thanks
Kelly
Aardvark:
you might be right on both. It is possible to have faulty batteries. i have had several like that with my VP2. I have a wireless temp station out there in the deep snow.. and the battery needed replacing. I was lucky and the replacement was good, but I have had batteries that continue to give the low battery message, even after resetting the console. So I keep replacing until one is good.
It would be a nice thing to have, that the console or software trip something that gives the batteries voltages at the various stations. I have asked Davis for that, to be told .. that the data logger just doesn't have enough memory space to accomodate that.
Anyway, keep monitoring your unit, and keep bothering Davis about it. It could be something minor , but they do need to help you. I often call them direct at times.
xcesmess:
Thanks for the information... I'll keep an eye on the battery and if it happens again I'll get on the horn with Davis until something is resolved. I noticed quite a variance in temp and humidity values (much more than the +/- 1 or 2 when I got it) just sitting side by side with the console after putting a new battery in... so I could have something going south...
Thanks!
Kelly
Aardvark:
It could be something going bad, I hope not.
It is a new product and I don't know how extensive or over how big of a geographical range they field test their units. When the vantage pro models came out there were problems like this for a while.
You just need to keep on Davis to do something. They are a good company but I think they get bogged down at times and you need to contact them direct and talk to a technician. Brett Lane seems to be the head honcho there in that area. He also has a nice crew as well. They will make it right with you, just keep bugging them .
DaculaWeather:
I've had my Vue since October and so far (knock on wood ](*,) ), I haven't had a problem with the batteries so far.
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