New battery pack installed and still doing same
Cleaning the metal contacts on both the battery and inside the Roomba may help. I had the same problem...once I lightly scraped the metal battery contacts with a small screwdriver it was able to charge normally again!
How long is it charging until the light goes from flashing red (no charge) to yellow to finally green (full charge) ? If it's not at least 2 hours, sorry I don't have my Roomba papers available, so I'm guesstimating here, it's not getting a full charge. If you can put a voltmeter on the " fully charged" battery pack, that might tell you if the charger is the problem. Clean off the metal contacts where Roomba meets the two metal contacts on the charger. Also just because a battery pack or set is new doesn't mean it's functional. I had a new Apple battery for my laptop that didn't work when I replaced an older one.
SOURCE: help
Same thing happened to me, I called the company, and they told me to remove the battery, press the on button for 5 seconds, which clears the system, replace the battery and do a long charge 12 hours. I'm in the process of doing that now.
SOURCE: Scooba battery light turns red as soon as irobot starts
Do you leave the battery on charge long enough? Try 4-hours up to overnight. If so, then the battery is probably at the end of it's useful life. Getting a new battery depends on cost versus life expectancy of the robot and whether it does the job you want it to do.
SOURCE: Seems to charge but then wont come on
Sounds like you bought a defective battery
You can test for this by removing the battery
and holding the power button for 15 seconds. This will restart the
charging cycle as if the battery were new. If it still goes red get a refund and a new one.
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