Davis Vantage Pro2 ISS Battery Life

I ordered some from them on the 5th of March and had no problem. So everything seems to be ok.

Steve

Interesting, I tried yesterday, and again after seeing your post, and get this notice:

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Good News, www.batteryjunction.com is now back in business :smiley:

hello niko…

just an update on the batteries I bought, around the same time you did from the junction. Mine are still both working…“knock on wood”. I placed one in the Davis ISS unit and also the Davis Anenometer Transmitter kit unit.

…Chris

Does the Davis VP really give a message to the console “station 1 low battery”??

Yes, it does.

Niko…where on the console so I can look out for this. I can’t find any mention in the console manual.

Along the bottom of the screen, same place it does “raining cats and dogs”.

There’s a WD status tag too:

%vpissstatus%…ISS battery status flag

Hello all

I wonder if I could have a word of advice from this panel.

I have a VP2 working OK since Apr 2005 and normally I have replaced the ISS battery once a year.

Recently I have been experiencing a new situation. During the day the transmission to the console works flawlessly but when night arrives no more data until next morning… :frowning:

I am not electronic savy but it looks like a battery situation…

The problem is that I have now replaced the battery, 3 times, for fresh new ones and the problem is still there… #-o

I saw mentioned earlier in this thread a

I had the problem last winter. I first suspected that the battery was bad… so I replaced it, then went in and reset the console to get rid of the message (just done and the down arrow or wait until midnight) and we are fine. I had thought maybe the solar panel was bad, as I also normally change the battery out. But it works fine.

What Davis suggested is that if the sunlight isn’t hitting the panel long enough, then the super cap doesn’t charge and it uses the battery more. We had not many bright days this last winter and I am guessing that is the problem. Anyway, I would take off the plastic cover over the ISS board and give it a look at the super cap with a magnifying glass to see if there is any corrosion or leaking. I live inland so there isn’t much unless you ask about road salt during the winter, and there is no spray so that wouldn’t be it for me.

If it cap is good then I would think it is either a bad series of batteries, or the solar panel isn;t doing its thing, or that the sun angle isn’t charging the cap. IF it looks bad, then it is time to contact Davis to send you a new ISS board. What I would try to do is get them to send you the replacement board and you return the bad one to them. They have on their web site a video on how to replace the board. That alone tells me that you are not alone with these going bad.

The early demise of the one I installed is down to the classic leaky supercap :roll:

I called Davis but the bums wouldn’t send me one :frowning: so I’ve had to order a couple.

Well, I just received my new leaking super cap, to replace my old leaking supercap :onfire:

Looks like shipping damage, anyone who thinks you can safely mail these parts cross country in a very thinly padded envelope needs to think again :roll:

Oh well, off to Mouser which is where I should have ordered in the first place :oops:

I just found my anemometer ISS flatline last night. Pulled the battery. Voltage was down to 2.5 volts. Put in one with 2.7 volts and nothing has kicked in. That’s 2 gone in 2 years. When replacing these in the Vantage Pro 2, is it good enough just to replace the battery or is there a way you’re supposed to reset?

Is it just me… :? :lol:

I try to replace the battery during the day (super cap well charged) and just pull the old one out & fit the new.
Two batteries in 2 years ain’t bad. On my main IIS I tend to change the battery around October as the shorter days are drawing in, just to be on the safe side through the winter. :wink:

all you have to do is just replace the battery. The console eventually resets itself at midnight, OR… you can put it into the setup mode, and take it back out and that will reset the console.

Flatline? you mean all dashes on the console for direction. I’d contact Davis. I am betting they have their units not built in the US and some bad parts. should last longer than that. Sorry to hear that it is giving you headaches especially since we are both getting into the interesting weather time.

I never got any low battery warnings on the console but I think I changed the battery for the first time after 3 years as I thought it was well overdue lol. The current one has been in for over 2 years. I always use Duracell.

By flatlining I mean on my WD window via the Davis Envoy. As soon as the sun started warming up the ISS solar panel, data tarted streaming again. I would assume this means a bad battery.

or a bad super cap