Thread: i170 Battery charging
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Old 02-05-2018, 01:04 PM   #2
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Are they Nimh batteries, or lithium ion? I'm surprised that you are having problems with multiple sets of MTO rebuilds. You'll likely hear from MTO regarding your post.

How do you know the batteries are "fully charged"? Are you checking battery voltage with a voltmeter? Your post suggests you are charging on the Seg itself, but to clarify, do you use an off-board charger?

How do you maintain the charge in these batteries when the Seg isn't being used regularly? Do you leave them on charge all the time, or use a timer? The red light is an indication that the Seg's on-board circuitry doesn't like what it sees in the batteries. If the Seg software is unhappy with the battery (including excessively low battery voltage), it WILL NOT CHARGE the battery, no matter how long you leave it plugged in.

The Gen II machines might use a somewhat different algorithm to determine battery "goodness", but the Gen II machines are also picky about what defines a "good" battery.

The multiple failures, followed a few years later by another set of multiple failures, suggests it is something unique to your situation, rather than the batteries.
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