how do you know when the battery is out? does it blink to alert you to change battery??? thnks
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no light or noise. If you have a lot of unwanted cats, the batteries do not last long.
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The blue light no longer comes on if you walk in front of it. I found that the animals got used to the sound and it no longer works on them. It worked for about a month.
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Sorry, I can't answer your question. I returned it the next day, well before the battery ran out.
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I usually change the batteries every two months....or, you can gauge it if you start seeing cats around. It works well where we live.....there are at least 6 cats that keep their distance from our patio rail.
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Hello, how are you? You know I dont remember for sure. I'm thinking the original charger had a light that never showed if it was charged(it was always on). I went ahead and bought a fast charger that goes from solid to blinking when charged.
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I dont have any problem at all. It should not blink. I wonder if there if short circuit due to moisture. Try to dry it up back panel and battery and you can use hair dryer to make it fast. Then close the lid tight
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I was able to replace my battery. But right now its always blinking on one bar. It seems to be charging now though so I will be patient and let it charge. Hope fully bars will return. When its charging the bars blink right? Mine doesn't do that anymore. @Richard L How did it strip the battery case?
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Yes, you get a light signal when battery needs recharging and there is another light signal when it has finished charging. There is no "low battery" notice though. So its use it until the battery is done. Might be in the middle of a session.
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When mine blinks it is charging. when it stops blinking it is fully charged.
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It is normal when recharging. The length of time it blinks normally depends oh how long it's been unplugged. As mention below no true way to measure.
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When plugged in it blinks green until fully charged. Stays on after fully charged but only when plugged in. When unplugged it will blink green until it needs charging, when it needs charging it will blink red.
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If it is charged, soon after you plug it in you will see the green light blink. That is as much charge your going to get. Charge it near you, keep eye on it. When a battery is no good it might start to blink but you won't be able to turn it on. After you have a full charge, run the battery all the way down, make sure it's real low, that way when you charge it up you train the battery for long life. Good Luck, Kris If you have any problems email me at kristophergeorgeking@gmail.com, i will help you!
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There is a tiny on/off switch. If you forget to switch it off, when you're finished with it, the battery will be dead by morning :(
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The battery will blink green while charging. Once charging is complete it should turn to solid green. You can keep the battery plugged beyond charging; and the battery will not be damaged.
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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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The automatic setting ... it will indicate when the battery is fully charged. Hope this is helpful.
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Solid yellow light means the battery is charging. I think the other indicators going off after a minute or two is "normal" operation. Mine does the same thing. I would kind of like the information display to stay illuminated. But you can always "refresh" it by pressing the left most button. I'd prefer I didn't have to walk around the car to do so.
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I think when I plugged mine in as well it does blink while it's charging ... Once it's fully charged all 3 lights light up indicating it's done
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It has no indicator light; when the battery dies you would not know. You would not know if it's on or off either unless you look at the position of the switch.
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Mine doesn't blink ... it's either steady read (charging) or steady blue (charged).