ctwilliams
Active Member
I have a strange issue I have not been able to work out.
After five years of flawless operation I am having an issue with the battery. Starting with a charged 8 amp hour battery (it is an elk branded battery) after almost exactly a week I receive a low battery warning after the daily test. Approximately 12 hours after that the M1 sends an hour of expansion failure and then restored messages and then dies completely. The only led on the M1 is the power light which is steady. Status light is out.
While this is happening the Elk is plugged in and receiving power (17.7v ac) the whole time. The battery has been run down below 10v. I switch the unit off, attach another battery, start the system back up, and everything is fine for a week and it dies again.
I read this thread: http://cocoontech.com/forums/topic/19895-elk-m1-battery-not-charging/page__st__15
with a similar problem and tried the troubleshooting.
Every time I test it the Elk is sending out 13.6v to charge the battery, yet the battery is still being drained. The other thing I can not understand is why is the Elk itself reporting expansion module failures from the low voltage condition and then itself dying even though it is receiving the 17.7v from the transformer?
The batteries are both elk branded and are six months old. I put them on a trickle charger and then am putting them back on the elk full.
Any ideas of anything else I can try or am I too the point of sending it back to Elk?
Thanks everyone...
After five years of flawless operation I am having an issue with the battery. Starting with a charged 8 amp hour battery (it is an elk branded battery) after almost exactly a week I receive a low battery warning after the daily test. Approximately 12 hours after that the M1 sends an hour of expansion failure and then restored messages and then dies completely. The only led on the M1 is the power light which is steady. Status light is out.
While this is happening the Elk is plugged in and receiving power (17.7v ac) the whole time. The battery has been run down below 10v. I switch the unit off, attach another battery, start the system back up, and everything is fine for a week and it dies again.
I read this thread: http://cocoontech.com/forums/topic/19895-elk-m1-battery-not-charging/page__st__15
with a similar problem and tried the troubleshooting.
Every time I test it the Elk is sending out 13.6v to charge the battery, yet the battery is still being drained. The other thing I can not understand is why is the Elk itself reporting expansion module failures from the low voltage condition and then itself dying even though it is receiving the 17.7v from the transformer?
The batteries are both elk branded and are six months old. I put them on a trickle charger and then am putting them back on the elk full.
Any ideas of anything else I can try or am I too the point of sending it back to Elk?
Thanks everyone...