Re: Re: wheelchair charging probs

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What kind of battery is it? Lead acid or gel-cells?

If your brave enough, remove battery cover and see if the date sticker is

there. It has the date of either manufactured or installed date to give you

and idea of age. Also, if lead acid battery and you're brave again, try

adding distilled water (not tap water) and fill the individual battery cells

that appear empty and dry. Each cell has a painter marker/line inside to

where the water is to be. It may aid in keeping a longer usage time, but odds

are it needs to be replaced.

Angie

On 2006.02.01 08:47, Terry Willoughby wrote:

> Sounds like a bad battery. It is not re charging all the way and may be

> other things but I would bet on a bad cell in the battery and yes this

> will cause him to run out of juice pretty fast if this is whats wrong.

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thanks Angie but I don't think I am going to mess with it like that. Its not

his chair and I know the batteries are around 6-7 years old at least. I think

they said the chair was around 5 years old when we got it and he's had it over a

year or at a year now. So they are pretty old batteries. And to top it off I

can't get to the school right now unless they really need me because my car has

been in the shop since yesterday morning. I hope he makes it today at school.

I don't think he has a lot of going to do since his PT couldn't make it this

morning. So I guess I am gonna keep my fingers crossed that it makes it today

and we can get his other one here sooner than monday.

Thanks,

Missy

Angie <angie@...> wrote:

What kind of battery is it? Lead acid or gel-cells?

If your brave enough, remove battery cover and see if the date sticker is

there. It has the date of either manufactured or installed date to give you

and idea of age. Also, if lead acid battery and you're brave again, try

adding distilled water (not tap water) and fill the individual battery cells

that appear empty and dry. Each cell has a painter marker/line inside to

where the water is to be. It may aid in keeping a longer usage time, but odds

are it needs to be replaced.

Angie

On 2006.02.01 08:47, Terry Willoughby wrote:

> Sounds like a bad battery. It is not re charging all the way and may be

> other things but I would bet on a bad cell in the battery and yes this

> will cause him to run out of juice pretty fast if this is whats wrong.

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[Guest guest]

LOL! I have my spare charger sitting in my office at work " just in case " I go

into the red! :-D

Blessings,

Holly

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> From: " Alana " <alrt@...>

> Date: 2006/02/01 Wed PM 10:22:50 GST

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> Subject: Re: wheelchair charging probs

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[Guest guest]

hey I can do that!! And Ian knows how to charge it just never done it before

because I have a big fear of kids plugging things in. Just me.

It managed ok today. Since he doesn't use it in the classroom and missed

thereapy today (that is all the way on the other side of the school) he managaed

ok and didn't run out of juice. Very low when he got home though.

thanks again,

Missy

Alana <alrt@...> wrote:

hi missy,

because this is a short-term chair, i recommend a short-term band-aid.

when i went to school with old batteries, i either carried the charger

in my backpack or bungee-corded to the back of my chair. people were

happy to plug it in when i was idle. you can probably have his teacher

or an aide do this, and i'll bet he can teach them how.

good luck!

alana

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Thanks for all the info. I will try these tomorrow incase it is nice enough for

him to go back out. The good thing is he will be getting his new one Monday,

and this one hasn't died out on him yet. Keeping fingers crossed.

Thanks again,

Missy

<boojiboy@...> wrote:

Could be a number of things. If it is a set of bad batteries, and

if you are in a crunch, you could pick some up at a Batteries Plus

store if need be.

If it's a bad reading on the batteries, you could unplug the

controller and plug it back in to see if it resets.

If it's not charging properly, you could check the battery terminals

that connect to the battery itself to ensure they are not corroded.

Most of the time it's a set of batteries that just got too old and

won't hold a charge anymore.

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> Hi everyone,

> Ian has a loaner chair from the MDA and will be recieving his

own on Monday. Yesterday I charged his chair when he came home from

school because it was flashing! It went down fast. We then went

out to eat last night, and it was flashing again! I charged it

again last night and the lights when from full charge to 3 bars left

just for him to get down the ramp to ge on the bus. Could it be

something wrong with the light sencor thing, or is my son gonna be

stuck in the hallway or something at school today? I called his DME

this morning to see if we could get his chair any sooner (I know its

there waiting for Ian just weather he can get it out to us or not is

the next question) but he hasn't called back yet. I just would

really hate to see Ian get stuck somewhere in the chair, he is a

bit too weak anymore to get around with his walker. He still falls

with it, and gets out of breath.

> Any input I would really apreciate it. This chair he has for a

loaner is a quickie. Not sure what Quickie but a Quickie.

> Thanks,

> Missy

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> Missy

> Mom to:

> Mitchel age 9 SMA free

> Ian age 8 SMA typeII/III

> Andy age 4 SMA free

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> http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/Ianpaul ---- Ians new site

> http://www.our-sma-angels.com/Ian/

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