Battery Problems
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For those of you using the flat packs.. make note of this info especially well.. I just found out that I apparently fried one of the 2 battery packs I installed in my first kit when I discovered the problem initially.
Apparently the GPA/1000c is smater than we are. I had 2 battery packs installed, one being bad without my knowledge.
I opened it one last time to work our some wire placement issues with the packs and reformat the SD card because I messed up the overscan. When I put it together the screen stayed white. Pulled it apart again and found that the ribbon was not seated JUST right.. When I went to test it before closing with one pack, it would not power on.. The screen would light up, the power would flash red a few times, but the pie would never take over. I tested everything I could, even plugging in to power which got it up and running. I reconnected the battery to test again and it worked.. It was that time I realized I had grabbed a different battery than the first time. I switched back to the first one and the same issue it would not power. If both the good and the bad were connected it was fine, but if I used 1, it would only power on with a specific one.
Since I had bought a pack of 4 batteries, I'm doing 2 builds, I pulled one from the parts for the other kit and it fired up just fine.. installed both good batteries and called it a night.
As you all know, the GPA has a blue light indicating charging. I had been charging the 2 batteries up (one good and one bad), and using the GPA testing things before giving it to my son. The light always remained blue no matter how long I left it on the charger. Now that I have 2 good batteries installed the light changed green at some point last night while it was charging.
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Battery Problems - by zacharydrake - 02-12-2017, 09:52 AM
RE: Battery Problems - by Flavor - 02-12-2017, 11:53 AM
RE: Battery Problems - by zacharydrake - 02-12-2017, 01:22 PM
RE: Battery Problems - by Flavor - 02-12-2017, 11:56 AM
RE: Battery Problems - by Flavor - 02-12-2017, 12:00 PM
RE: Battery Problems - by zacharydrake - 02-12-2017, 04:20 PM
RE: Battery Problems - by Flavor - 02-13-2017, 01:47 AM
RE: Battery Problems - by Arrta - 02-19-2017, 12:58 AM

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