has anyone had any problems with battery draining when using this type of ''hardwired'' switch/solenoid? it is not hooked up to a keyed powersource.
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I have installed this device last fall and have been using it many times during the winter and have had no problems with any drain on the battery.
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I have had a dead battery a couple of times but I don't get my 4 wheeler out much so that may have been the problem. I keep a battery tender on mine and haven't had any more problems. Starts up every time.
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no has power switch on off on the black box mine under the seat witch is easy to get at.
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Mine is hard wired with no problem on batteries. Have low voltage buttons with transformer.
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Mine stays plugged in with no problems. I do not believe there is any significant power draw unless something is connected to it and is continuously drawing from the invertor. Then that depends on the rating of the vehicle battery rating or reserve capacity and the load drawn from the invertor, up to 120 watts.
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I would ASSUME the batteries are not drained while plugged in to the power supply (which does not answer your question - I realize that). However, you should ALWAYS take the batteries out of a unit when the unit is plugged for any period of time (or not in use for any period of time) because batteries will leak and ruin the device. I have had several sets of different brands of batteries leak in the last few years.
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I installed mine myself and have no problems. The only thing on that unit that draws power when the key is off is the little red blinking light. I would say it's either an extremely week battery or a faulty unit. Mine performs flawlessly.
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I'm a mechanic and yes it will drain the battery if you leave it plugged in while the car is off, my suggestion is to hard wire it into the car with an "add a fuse" , it's simple and cheap and will turn on and off with the car without draining the battery (look up a video on YouTube "how to hardwire in a radar detector")
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It's been quite awhile since I installed my timer and I don't remember now what number it was----but I know that it did take a back up battery. Are you sure your's does not? I've never seen one that didn't? But I suppose that it's possible that the newer models might use a system that won't dump your settings when the power goes off. I haven't researched your model number so I can't say one way or the other for certain.
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The ST01C unit runs fine off batteries and the battery will last at least 1+ year - many get up to 3 years. No "powerline" voltage is used - this is not a trickle powered type switch. The battery operates a relay switch. So the timer switch will turn on and off as programmed even if you have no electrical power. And because it is a heavy duty relay, it matters not as to whether the circuit is a 1/2 watt night light, a 1 HP motor or whatever up to 15 amp. Many other switches do use trickle current, but not this one. I am a user that purchased from Amazon and very satisfied. Only thing I'd say is watch the video on youtube to make the programming easy and yes the clocks in these units do gain/loose a few minutes over course of a year.
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Its been my experience that leaveing it plugged in after dark the charge likes to feed back through the carge controler and heat up why i dont know but it does i would reccomend unplugging it as soon as it gets daark just to be safe..it does get kinda hot!
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No experience with that issue. I actually have mine plugged in to my UPS so it has never lost power.
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had mine for several years with no problem - check wires and for good power supply (the transformer that runs it). operate the switch off/on/etc. a couple of times
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no worries I just looked to see if it used more power when plugged into its cord and the opposite was true . Its Hot- Swappable so you dont have to turn your computer to change at first it seemed cheap but Im glad I listened to my friend who so happy with hers and if you plug it into the wall it wont send power to anything thats not on in fact you should have nore hours in the end of use without needing power
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No, i never try. I always have a load on it, and if I turn things off it goes to a standby or power save mode automatically.My inverter have been running for more then 2 years now. With no problems so for.
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Mine never made it long enough for the battery to die, the switch went bad or the frequency was lost between the switch and the receiver, I changed the battery thinking that was the cause of my issues but that was not the case. I just gave up and did hard wiring, this item was very unreliable.
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Left it plugged in all the time. It never drained my battery. On my truck, the power plug-ins are hot all the time.
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Hi Julie: Sounds like you have successfully powered the digital timer, but not the switch. The switch side does not power the circuit. You can run the + wire from the battery to one side of the switch and continue the + wire out of the switch to the item you are controlling. Run the - wire directly from the battery to the item you are controlling. IN other words, the digital switch only controls one of the leads to the load, which you must power. You can also just run a jumper from the + side of the timer to the + side of the switch to power the circuit instead of going all the way back to the battery. Hope this helps.
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I leave mine plugged in without batteries with no ill effects so far. But am concerned about power surgesrecently. They have reset my computer even with line conditioning and battery backup. Prob. from on/off/on cycle.