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<blockquote data-quote="Skylar" data-source="post: 1123491" data-attributes="member: 17146"><p>Just an update about the "crappy" SLA battery that was in the motor. When I checked yesterday (before I discovered that the charger had a problem, but was still sort-of working), I checked the voltage; seemed that it was fully charged. Measured 12.8 Volt idle, but dropped to 7.8V under load. A clear sign of a bad (or uncharged) battery.</p><p></p><p>Being late Saturday morning and no time to buy a new battery, I decided to do a <a href="https://www.takealot.com/intelligent-12v-pulse-repair-charger-q-dp9921/PLID90449922" target="_blank">pulse "repair" charge</a> with my new fancy but cheap charger. I put it on "pulse repair" for about 2 hours and checked it again on the gate motor. This time it measured 12.8V under load. What the heck, I thought? This battery is still working like new. 2 Hours before it couldn't open the gate! </p><p></p><p>So I guess the Lithium upgrade can wait till another day. The gate is now working fine with no weird behaviour even through loadshedding.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skylar, post: 1123491, member: 17146"] Just an update about the "crappy" SLA battery that was in the motor. When I checked yesterday (before I discovered that the charger had a problem, but was still sort-of working), I checked the voltage; seemed that it was fully charged. Measured 12.8 Volt idle, but dropped to 7.8V under load. A clear sign of a bad (or uncharged) battery. Being late Saturday morning and no time to buy a new battery, I decided to do a [URL='https://www.takealot.com/intelligent-12v-pulse-repair-charger-q-dp9921/PLID90449922']pulse "repair" charge[/URL] with my new fancy but cheap charger. I put it on "pulse repair" for about 2 hours and checked it again on the gate motor. This time it measured 12.8V under load. What the heck, I thought? This battery is still working like new. 2 Hours before it couldn't open the gate! So I guess the Lithium upgrade can wait till another day. The gate is now working fine with no weird behaviour even through loadshedding. [/QUOTE]
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