Easiest way to change remote unit batteries

[Meteosat]

I've just replaced the current alkaline ones with some lithium ones, so hopefully will get quite a bit longer life span. But the problem I've noticed with every battery change is that the console fails to pick up the sensor after the remote battery exchange. I have to unplug the batteries in the console and then replace and re-start. This then causes certain sections to need to be re-set vz date/time presuure offset etc.

Is there a neater way to chage the remote batteries without the console failure to detect transmissions, and hence eliminating the need to restart the console from scratch?

Cheers

[geoffw]

Good question ....... i want to replace my batteries, and keep putting it off because I had similar problems.

[AllyCat]

Hi,

A few months ago (I can't find the thread ATM) somebody suggested that he had successfully avoided the need to resynchroinise by waiting until the red LED flashed and then quickly changed each battery (he did one after each flash). If you unplug the wind sensor cable, the transmitter consumes almost no current except when the A/D converter operates (this occurs 44 seconds after the LED flashes) and when it transmits (and the LED flashes).

So in theory you have 44 seconds to change the battery(s), but the reservoir capacitor(s) on the circuit board might be quite small, so changing the cells within a few seconds after the flash is probably the best method. It worked for me when I tried it.

The latest 3080/1 modes can be resynchronised by holding in the <down arrow> button for 4 seconds, but then they shouldn't (perhaps) need resynchronising anyway as they're solar powered.

Cheeers, Alan.

[Meteosat]

Hi,

A few months ago (I can't find the thread ATM) somebody suggested that he had successfully avoided the need to resynchroinise by waiting until the red LED flashed and then quickly changed each battery (he did one after each flash). If you unplug the wind sensor cable, the transmitter consumes almost no current except when the A/D converter operates (this occurs 44 seconds after the LED flashes) and when it transmits (and the LED flashes).

So in theory you have 44 seconds to change the battery(s), but the reservoir capacitor(s) on the circuit board might be quite small, so changing the cells within a few seconds after the flash is probably the best method. It worked for me when I tried it.

The latest 3080/1 modes can be resynchronised by holding in the <down arrow> button for 4 seconds, but then they shouldn't (perhaps) need resynchronising anyway as they're solar powered.

Cheeers, Alan.

Thanks Alan - that's worth remembering. I wasn't sure whether changing batteries on the remote effectively meant you might lose whatever channel it had decided to transmit on, and hence the need for the console to re-sync.

Cheers