I'm concerned about the blinking light draing the battery, this has to have an effect after possible years of blinking is there any way to disable it?
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Hi T - As of right now there is no way to disable the blinking emergency LED indicator, which was a design decision due to it's incredibly low power drain and to make sure people could always find it should the power go off. We are, however, working with our engineers on a way to reprogram it so that it can turn off (most likely we will make it so that holding down the power button for more than 2 seconds will disable the flashing LED indicator, but that's still under review). However, it's important to note that the batteries themselves would drain completely via normal cell degradation far before the flashing LED indicator would have any impact on the battery life. I have contacted our engineers to spec out the math on it to show just how little the drain is, and will distribute that once it's ready (they are quite swamped right now with designing the new features and future products :) ). Also, here was one answer that demonstrates the low draw until we have the exact specs ready: Posted on January 16: "The draw is so low that the batteries themselves would have lost their power via normal degradation well before any significant drain due to the flashing LED could be noticed. I do not have the exact specs in front of me, but I believe that the LED draws around .001 amps, which would be able last for a year even if it were constantly on with the D cell batteries. Since it is flashing (and not constant), that means that the draw is actually much, much less and means that it would in theory last for ten's of years. As you can imagine, we fully admit that we haven't tested that yet. :)" We will email you once we have the exact specs outlined. Thanks!
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I didn't get instructions with my light. The blinking red light seems to mean it has a charged battery ready for use. I take the battery out when I'm not using or charging the it. I use mine for work the battery lasts 2 to 3 hours of steady on. Longer if use is intermediate.
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This same battery didn't cause mine to blink. I had gotten a bad charger with my new Hubsan x4 QCopter and the light never went off. Thought it was the battery, got new ones, did the same thing then got new charger that was it.
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Mine still has the blinking light. I have the exact same one I bought two years ago, and this one I just bought a month ago. Both blink.
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That is odd. Did you let it sit for a while? I remember blinking lights for sometime before the constant green light came on.I'd contact Amazon or the manufacturer to see if you can exchange it. Personally, I love mine and even gave one to my best friend for her birthday.
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My light (green) stay's on when charging. It goes off when complete. Mine only blinks when the battery is low. It sounds as if your battery might be faulty. I never use tech support on anything. They usually know less about their products than we do!
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I have had the same problem. It seems the only solution is to remove the battery when not in use.
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I've never had this issue. You know it is fully charged when the light quits blinking.
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I held the play button which is the middle button down for about 4 seconds. You do the same thing to shut it off. When power I'd turned on or off you will see it blink red about 3 or 4 times. Good luck
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Sounds like the charger. It's supposed to blink blue when the battery on it is charged.
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We have had ours around 6 months or so. It started blinking an intermittent red light about every 15 to 30 minutes day and night about 2 weeks ago, but it is still lighting the blue light at night. No dimness. I'm assuming that the batteries are going low. I'm still trying to figure out how to change the batteries. I think I have to remove the seat. But, then I can really clean that space.
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If I left it plugged in accidentally without shutting it off, it will automatically turn off. however it does blink before before shutting down but not constantly. If you turn switch in the off mode and leave it plugged in it will constantly blinks.
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No, which is fine because that's one less superfluous load on my laptop battery and my wife claims that all the blinking lights are distracting.
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You almost certainly have a bad battery. I own several of these timers, and the batteries last for many months even with heavy usage of the various features. I believe the clock mode is running in the background all the time and you cannot turn that off.
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Happened to me. Went away though. Just did the blinking thing for a while,is fine now.
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That is odd. Did you let it sit for a while? I remember blinking lights for sometime before the constant green light came on.I'd contact Amazon or the manufacturer to see if you can exchange it. Personally, I love mine and even gave one to my best friend for her birthday. I use DuraCell batteries.
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The charge light blinks when it's time to recharge. Turns off when fully charged.