These batteries should be 3 volts. You measured 2.7 with no load on the battery, it's dead as far as the fob is concerned.If 2.7 is too low it should have given the LOW BATT message, no?
If 2.7 is too low it should have given the LOW BATT message, no?
Yep, it should have.Thanks, I'm heading out to buy some fresh ones.
I have some of these batteries right here on my desk and I just measured em. 3.12v
If 2.7 is too low it should have given the LOW BATT message, no?
heh guys:
just something i was thinking about- to prevent being stranded in the boonies somewhere, is it worth carrying a spare fob battery around in the glovebox. Another idea was just changing it out every other yr, or perhaps every tire change?
heh maxtog- are you saying you dont need the fob to start the bike? can you explain this to me?
mat
Sometimes. Maybe.
The problem with that warning is that it depends on the transponder (the fob) detecting and transmitting a 'low battery voltage' condition to the main ECU where it would be displayed to you. The device is coded to respond to a certain voltage drop over a certain number of cycles to determine when the battery is out of acceptable range but like most simple or too simple tests, it really isn't very accurate. So you may get a low fob battery warning before the fob battery voltage is so low that the fob actually fails to transmit.... or not. In my opinion, it is a lousy test followed by an unreasonable 'feature' (the displayed low battery warning) that fools a lot of people into thinking something is wrong when really it is the test itself that is flawed.
Your fob battery voltage is too low by actual measurement and the fob has failed to transmit; normally you would just replace the battery and think nothing of it but because you were expecting that warning it fools you into looking for some problem when there really is not a problem. Not blaming you here Bob, I think it is just that the mfg. tries to give us additional and sometimes sophisticated functions that don't really work out. Look at the number of 'low battery' problems that C-14's have had on the tire pressure sensors- it would seem that we would be better off if that function just was not included on the vehicle and when the battery(s) in the sensor failed it just didn't display anymore.
Brian
heh maxtog- are you saying you dont need the fob to start the bike? can you explain this to me?
mat
That would be "capiche" or "capisci".
Paging Mr's MG and Ugo.....call waiting on the lobby phone.
I stand corrected.Just my little pet peeve. If you're gonna use a foreign language phrase it bugs me to see it spelled phonetically. Admittedly, Capish is not as bad as Walla for the French "VoilĂ "
In my defense.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Capish
Just my little pet peeve. If you're gonna use a foreign language phrase it bugs me to see it spelled phonetically. Admittedly, Capish is not as bad as Walla for the French "VoilĂ "