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Driveway gate stopped working
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| Yong Huang 2008-02-20, 3:25 am |
| Our USAutomatic Patriot gate completely stopped moving. I noticed the
battery power was low. So I hooked up my car battery charger to it (as
if I'm doing car jumpstart). Voltage came back up to > 12 volts. But
pressing the remote control button still only caused a clicking sound
on the circuit board; no motor turning sound. I pushed the reset
button on the board. Pushed the OPEN/CLOSE COMMAND button. Nothing
helped. Any advice is appreciated.
Yong Huang
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| On Feb 19, 10:08=A0pm, Yong Huang <yong...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Our USAutomatic Patriot gate completely stopped moving. I noticed the
> battery power was low. So I hooked up my car battery charger to it (as
> if I'm doing car jumpstart). Voltage came back up to > 12 volts. But
> pressing the remote control button still only caused a clicking sound
> on the circuit board; no motor turning sound. I pushed the reset
> button on the board. Pushed the OPEN/CLOSE COMMAND button. Nothing
> helped. Any advice is appreciated.
>
> Yong Huang
Are you sure you hooked up + to + and - to -? A teversal might have
damaged the PCB.
joe
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| clifto 2008-02-20, 5:25 pm |
| Yong Huang wrote:
> Our USAutomatic Patriot gate completely stopped moving. I noticed the
> battery power was low. So I hooked up my car battery charger to it (as
> if I'm doing car jumpstart). Voltage came back up to > 12 volts. But
> pressing the remote control button still only caused a clicking sound
> on the circuit board; no motor turning sound. I pushed the reset
> button on the board. Pushed the OPEN/CLOSE COMMAND button. Nothing
> helped. Any advice is appreciated.
Sounds like a dead battery and bad contacts to either or both of the
battery terminals.
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