Hi all. The short question... Can electric velux windows send a signal to a AA battery-controlled control pad that causes the control pad to quickly deplete the batteries?
The details...
I have three electric velux windows in my kitchen and two in my bathroom. All recently installed by the same guy. All use KLR 200 control pads operating 3 AA batteries.
No issues with the bathroom but the kitchen control pads don't hold a charge. Within a month the batteries are completely dead.
Each unit is placed on a wall next to a nest thermostat.
I've tried multiple control pads and same issue over and over again. It is possible the control pads are from a bad batch and all suffer the same issue, so I have requested two new ones from velux. I've just set these up and will wait a month and see how they go but in the meantime I thought I would ask the question here (there's no battery % indicator on the unit).
What could the issue be?
Could the windows be feeding a constant signal to the control pad keeping it 'awake' (the screen isn't on).
Could electrical current to the nest thermostat be interfering with the batteries?
The units do say 500ma max on them but surely that doesn't mean that I can't use batteries with a higher capacity (some of the batteries I have tried are 2000mah rechargeables, but I think I first tried the batteries the unit came with).
The details...
I have three electric velux windows in my kitchen and two in my bathroom. All recently installed by the same guy. All use KLR 200 control pads operating 3 AA batteries.
No issues with the bathroom but the kitchen control pads don't hold a charge. Within a month the batteries are completely dead.
Each unit is placed on a wall next to a nest thermostat.
I've tried multiple control pads and same issue over and over again. It is possible the control pads are from a bad batch and all suffer the same issue, so I have requested two new ones from velux. I've just set these up and will wait a month and see how they go but in the meantime I thought I would ask the question here (there's no battery % indicator on the unit).
What could the issue be?
Could the windows be feeding a constant signal to the control pad keeping it 'awake' (the screen isn't on).
Could electrical current to the nest thermostat be interfering with the batteries?
The units do say 500ma max on them but surely that doesn't mean that I can't use batteries with a higher capacity (some of the batteries I have tried are 2000mah rechargeables, but I think I first tried the batteries the unit came with).
