Is my Powertap hub battery dying?
doyler78
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My powertap stopped recording 8 miles into my commute on Friday and 12 miles into my commute on the way home. Basically the display went to --- and the computer eventually turned off. No amount of using the find function would bring it back again.
Done the same thing today.
Is this typcial of what happens when the hub battery is dying?
Also the manual mentions that you need a special tool to replace the hub battery which is included with hub however this is on loan and I don't have this. Is this tool necessary or is there anything else I can use?
Done the same thing today.
Is this typcial of what happens when the hub battery is dying?
Also the manual mentions that you need a special tool to replace the hub battery which is included with hub however this is on loan and I don't have this. Is this tool necessary or is there anything else I can use?
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The cost can be huge!
As much as 3 pounds!
There is a 'special tool' but a piece of rubber and some elbow grease will do the 'turning the lid' job...
The inside is just a case of pulling out the battery bit, pulling out the batteries using a rare tool based on a popular drink (called something like a skroo dreyevur), replacing them and pushing the battery bit back in.
If wired - then sometimes lots of water under the CPU contact can do same thing.
The hub cap can be a censored to remove first time and the tool enables that. But try with your fingers to unscrew, sometimes you can get it.
Can use another tool, I used to use a multigrip with something to protect the platic, but now I have several of those hub cap removal tools.
I've just found the tool. Not what I was expecting a tool to look like and I did remember wondering what on earth it was for when it was included in the box.
Just took the hub cover off and the batteries are easy to get at so looks like a pretty simple job.
I have my batteries ordered however with the postal strike and the backlogs god knows when I'll get them :roll:
Bought 4 of the hub batteries and 2 of the computer batteries.
Total Cost: £7.93.
Sorry - shoud have said - yes it's a wireless unit - SL+
Alkaline last about a week!
I rang around both photographic shops and chemists and none have them. One of them even said "I haven't seen those in ages". Looks like they were perhaps more popular in the past.
Oh well will just have to wait and see when it turns up.
My first set of hub batteries died after 3 months . Fair enough.
I replaced them and after a month the transmission icon started flashing. Because it happened so soon I've ignored it and 2 months on the hub is still working fine.
Why is the transmission icon flashing when clearly there is battery power?
Moisture?