Will my LCD bar continue to work?

1. I have a dead Digital ProPac or Hytron battery.  Will my LCD bar work after my battery is rebuilt by Rathbone Energy?  Yes,

   1. With any battery of that type, we simply  replace the dead battery insert with a fresh higher quality battery cell insert. We remove only the positive and negative leads of the old insert and then connect those  leads to the proper positive and negative connections of the new battery insert.  We do not adjust or tamper with any existing circuitry inserted between the cells of those packs.  

   2. After we have completed your pack the LCD bar will appear.  Sometimes there will be a display reading "EDO", "RES", "Service", or a Lightning Bolt that will also appear.  After running your battery through several full charge - discharge cycles or through several auto-calibrate cycles on your charger these readings usually go away, not always. 

      1. While reading your battery manual, (mentioned below), you will find that the digital circuitry of the intelligent battery supposedly has a learning mode to learn the continually changing characteristics of the battery.  This learning curve will effect when those readings go away. Occasionally they do not, however, your new insert is functioning fine, as will be noted in field performance.

   3. Your LCD Panel will operate and your viewfinder will continue to give readings as usual.

       

   4. This is a more sophisticated digital logic panel.  Trying to keep the explanation simple, In some manner this panel

      1. Tells the digital logic board when

         1. The battery pack has reached a certain amount of charge-discharge cycles

         2. Or particular pre-set algorithm is reached

      2. Communicate this with the charger system

      3. Then will advise you that the battery needs to be serviced with some form of Service display

      This usually means the pack is nearing the end of it's life expectancy and you are advised that the battery pack is dead. 

   5. Before installation we charge and test the charge of these new battery inserts. We use Only CADEX, CHRISTIE, and PAG Battery Management Analyzers. (After a battery is fully charged there is No continuous trickle charge on these analyzers.  They monitor the charge and supply a pulse charge when necessary) 

   6. After installation of the new insert, before sealing and after sealing your case, all quality checks are completed on Anton Bauer 2702 InterActive Chargers with the DDM for approval,  Then we ship your fine product back to you.

   7. We also make sure no battery reads "Non-Logic" before sealing the case.  This seldom happens and there are only a few reasons a battery would read non-logic anyway.  Non-Logic Reading Hold Reading Thermal Issue

Notes:

Many times clients have battery packs that go dead or stop functioning with their manufacturers brand smart charger.  Thinking the batteries are dead they place them on a shelf until they are ready to rebuild or recell the units.  

The batteries actually go dead sitting on a shelf.  The original issue was actually communications between that battery and the OEM smart charger.  The batteries were actually fine and would have continued to perform fine if charged on a Cadex or PAG analyzers.

1. IMPORTANT:  It has been our experience with these particular "DIGITAL" batteries that after all the above checks are carefully finished, still, a large percentage of these batteries, estimated at >60% on Dionic and Hytron, do NOT pass the Test's of our AB2707 with DDM smart chargers because they came in with internal circuit board damage that can only be discovered after a new insert is installed and we loose all the time consuming labor.

2. Our Rathbone Energy Lithium Ion batteries are built differently:

   1. We have streamlined the internal circuitry of our batteries and they to have built in protection circuitry to ensure the highest degree of safety operation.  They are STILL Lithium Ion.   
   2. By streamlining our batteries circuits we remove unnecessary components that might be used to force someone's battery to only work with one brand charger.
   3. Unnecessary components that have nothing to do with the safety of the battery only increase the chance that the battery will fail prematurely because of unnecessary components being damaged when a battery is jolted or dropped.

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   1. To better understand how your batteries learn see:

      1. Anton Bauer's Manual on Propac 14 and Trimpac 14 digital batteries:

      2. Liquid Crystal Display (LCD);

      3. Read Manual Page numbers (9, 10 & 11), Adobe pdf page number (13, 14 & 15)

      4. Link to Anton Bauer Digital Propac / Trimpac Manual : http://www.antonbauer.com/downloads/dig_propac_14-dig_tripac_14.pdf