T131S. Battery backup

Hi - As per original question, NOT A TV, the LEDAB0701 is an ASDA Durabrand DAB Radio, so no remote! Just hit this problem - and found a work-around. Sound always worked - display and backlight failed. Could not spring radio apart - as well as the screw in the battery compartment - there seems an anchor the other end that defeated me. I run off the supplied Power supply and rechargeable batteries. The batteries ran down and I plugged the psu and display came back - for a few minutes! The sealed Power Supply unit (psu) is probably unregulated non-switched mode type. It gave 15.6v unloaded. Unregulated psu's normally run 1.4x nominal voltage with no load and are pulled down to the nominal voltage as the load current is taken (i.e. ASDA psu should have been 9v x1.4 =12.6v not 15.6v).

Seems the radio is sensitive to high psu voltage as when I ran off a regulated psu - problem partly went away. Regulated means you get whatever voltage you set whether no load, half load or full rated load.

Also once switched off fault appears the internal batteries were keeping the display off setting. I used a 12v 1A variable regulated psu. It has 9v, 6v, 5v settings. 5v is too low. 6v works when already running but it needs 9v to start. However the problem is that the display will still switch off if I run for a long time on 9v, so I have to switch down to 6v. Alternative, start on battery and plug in 6v works [6xAA=7.2v nominal, range: 8.5v down to 6v]. Seems some internal components of radio or psu have drifted/become faulty.

You need a positive center/hole polarity. Ideally aim at 500mA or greater replacement psu. Ideally use a variable one so it can be used for other things if your problem is different and this is not the solution. If you have an unregulated variable psu (400mA or greater) try running at 6v (will be higher but perhaps not too high) then switch to 4.5v or 5v (again will be 1.4x higher) but make sure it is set to positive centre/hole.

It should not be too difficult to unbolt the alternator. Basically remove the drive belt, disconnect the battery. (it would save you some grief if you take a 9V battery and connect it to the battery terminals. This will be enough voltage to keep the computer memory and radio programming when you disconnect the car battery.) The 9V battery is a trick I use all the time.

You can attempt to use 2 butter knives and try to wedge it out, you can use a dental pick to scrape the edge of the battery, but without seeing exactly how swollen it is, that would only be a guess. If you can send me a picture to [email protected], I can take a closer look at it.

To use the worry-free backup battery, get a 9V battery. Then look for the battery compartment on the bottom of the unit. Press the tab with your thumb and then lift the cover out and away. Plug in the battery and then replace the cover.

Press Wake Time once and use the forward/reverse buttons to set the alarm time. Then press Wake Mode repeatedly to toggle between the options of wake to radio, wake to CD, or wake to alarm. (Note the radio must be tuned to your desired station and a CD needs to be in the player for these to work).

The Smart Snooze means that pressing Snooze, forward, reverse, play or stop will turn off the alarm temporarily. (Pressing Off will prevent the alarm from sounding again today.)

The English version of the manual for the RP5605 clock radio is available here: http://www.voxxsupport.com/images/User%20Manuals%20-%20FAQ%27s/RP5605.pdf .

I hope this helps.

Cindy Wells

Change the 9V backup battery,with a new one.Push and hold the reset button for a minute or two for the alarm to to go off like about 30-40 sec. for the smoke detector to dectected the 9V backup battery power sourced.The green power LED light indicator will stop flashing also the beeping sounds too.

It can't be done. The Accutime 40240 has a 3V lithium battery behind the 9V compartment that keeps the time should the clock lose AC power or even when the backup 9V dies. If however the 9V is removed, the AC power is disconnected and the lithium battery drains, there is no way for the end user to reset the time. There is a small data port in the 9V battery compartment which is how they initially set the time IMHO but good luck finding a way to do that outside the factory. Besides, these clocks are so cheap its probably less cost to get another clock rather than replace the batteries

the top of the unit there is a slide right by the center button..there is a 9v backup battery in there and that is why it is beeping...it is telling you the battery is going bad

you need a volt meter and 9v battery. then earth black contact from meter & then

1. with ign off probe wire to find a live , thats the memory feed goes to yellow on radio
2. with ign on probe wires that the constent live goes to red on radio
3. when lights on probe wires thats the illumination feed (if fitted to car, but not used on many new radios
4. then get 9v battery and with remaining wires pair and connect to battery, when speaker buzz's mark pair as they are ( ie front right rear left etc ) the speaker wires from the new radio are paired by colour ( one with black stripe with is the negative of the pair)
5. there should be a ground/earth which if you cant find just hook one to the body/chassis

You can buy a neat little tool called a settingsaver (pretty much a 9v battery that plugs into the lighter. It permits you to disconnect battery without having problems with radio, security system etc.

you must call any new dealership of oldsmobile they have the code you have to tell them you are the owner of the car ,and some dealer´s are free of charge,you must send the car or proof of the ownership.
and the next time you change battery for any car try to input a 9v battery on de cigarette ligther,i can explain,get any cable who conects to a cigarrete lighter and cut the wire,then conect the two wires to a 9v battery and conect to the charger of the cigarrte lighter,then disconect the battery and conect the one ,this way you wont lose any code for any radio and any car or any computer codes,i used to work an a car lot for 14 years,hope this will help,good luck