Swapping in one charged battery?

[TiVoAussie]

Given a Segway down to one flashing bar, does anybody know what the effect of replacing *just one* battery with a full charged one would be?

Just curious!

Cheers

Ron


There are a little over six thousand Segway owners!
There are a little over six billion people in the world!
I'm one in a million! :)

[SegwayUtah]

After swapping out one battery, you should get roughly one flashing bar :) Unless the one that's left was doing better.

The battery reading on the HT is of the _weakest_ of the two batteries, more or less.

Chris

[SegwayUtah]

P.S.

I think that you're going to need to change your tagline to "I'm one in 500,000" or something as time goes on. 6,000 Segway owners was 7 months ago :)

Chris

[TiVoAussie]

Yeah, I know! But he world's population must have gone up a bit too!

Thanks for the info on the battery too, somehow I missed that it works like that!

Cheers

Ron

There are a little over six thousand Segway owners!
There are a little over six billion people in the world!
I'm one in a million! :)

[Florida Ever-Glides]

I was recently told by my dealer (TX) that toy should always change the batteries in pairs and never split them up.

Tom Jacobson

[Deviant]

1) I also believe and recommend swapping both batteries at the same time.
2) I believe that the reading of bars is based on the lower battery
3) I believe that swapping a single battery would result in increased range (over not swapping any), since I believe that the HT will consume more from the higher capacity battery. I could be wrong; the LLC engineers should know. Assuming a complete single battery failure, it is my understanding that both wheels will still be powered (that redundancy we were sold on).

[dave]

I have tried it before. I used my Segway until both batteries were almost drained. Then changed one battery, and started the Segway, and saw only one steady bar. I then changed the second battery and had a full charge on the indicator. I changed the front battery first, so I guess to conclude the experiment one would also have to put the good battery in the rear position.

[SegwayUtah]

Dave,

Did you try riding your HT after the swap? My guess is that the machine would let you go a little ways, and your voltage bars would drop rapidly and/or your machine would go into the "low battery warning" mode and then emergency shutdown.

You have me curious now. I do trust that the redundant systems will keep me safe, but then again it's never good to try to break the redundant systems (unless you're an engineering tester) :)

Chris

[segwayowner]

Can you keep the segway on ( in power assist mode) and swap out one battery?

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