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rbdamon

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Charging Issue
« on: January 21, 2018, 06:05:43 PM »

I am a new Railpro user. I have purchased an HC-2 and when I charge it charges but eventually the battery indicator bar only goes to the 3/4 mark and then I get the message on the Display "Faulted Charger Under Current" I think at this point it is fully charged even though the indicator is incorrect. It seems to work ok but this is not the behavior I would expect. Anyone seem this before?


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Re: Charging Issue
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2018, 06:24:01 PM »
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Re: Charging Issue
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2018, 06:07:21 AM »
Make sure your HC is updated with the latest program, REV. 2.03 and then perform the drain down and full charge as described at the link Alan provided.
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Re: Charging Issue
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2018, 06:58:48 PM »
So my attempt to upgrade to 2.03 isn't going so well. Not sure why I received a product with older firmware? This was new stock. Anyways as a Mac user (hint hint) I had to drag out the only laptop with I have with Windows 7 that I keep for such emergencies and although I have loaded a sound file ok the controller upgrade continues to error out with the message "Timeout waiting for file"

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Ok I spoke too soon after a reboot I was able to update to 2.03
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Re: Charging Issue
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2018, 07:26:26 PM »
2.03 for the HC is quite recent. It would only be loaded on product that left Ring in the first week of January or later.
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Re: Charging Issue
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2018, 07:34:18 PM »
2.03 for the HC is quite recent. It would only be loaded on product that left Ring in the first week of January or later.

Ok that makes sense. I purchased early Dec. and had to wait a couple weeks for new stock to arrive. Will let drain the battery tonight.

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Re: Charging Issue
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2018, 07:59:01 PM »


Issue resolved! Thank you, Bill and Alan!!

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Re: Charging Issue
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2018, 08:00:06 PM »
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Issue resolved! Thank you, Bill and Alan!!

Fantastic!
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