Re: 832 power trouble - low batt. error again.

["mikey" <loismustdie@xxxxxxxx>]

What do you mean continuously? Does the low battery restore and then fault
again?
Old building? What's the electricity like? I wonder if the panel maybe
doesn't have enough
to work with and can't keep the batteries above the 11.8V (or whatever)
threshold

"Impalpable" <spdb66@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> have a power 832 system that I worked on a eight months ago.  The
> system worked fine for 3 months then gave a low battery error
> continuously.  I changed the battery thinking the battery might have
> gone bad (old battery).  That didn't solve the problem.  I had heard
> of the bridge going bad on 832's and giving that error falsely.  I
> had them order a new board and I replaced it yesterday.  The error went
>
> away. Today I checked in to make sure everything was good and the
> trouble light was on again.  I checked it and sure enough it said
> "Low Battery".  I have tried two batteries and two boards now.  The
> non-profit that I am helping with this can't really afford to keep
> buying parts.  Anyone know what might be causing this mess?  They have
> a dial in module, printer module, and autodialer all on the system.
> Might the devices be drawing too much power from the system ?  Someone
> recommended a bigger battery, but I wouldn't think that would solve it
> since the power is not going out.  This happens when the system is
> plugged in and no power event have occured.  Thanks all.
>