7. Is it possible to program a 'low battery' early warning?

Yes, provided your controller is a VSI, VR2 or S-drive and you have access to a 'B' level hand-held or PC programmer.

All of our powerchair products are fitted with a 10-segment TruCharge© display. The display, colour-coded with red, yellow & green bars, gives an accurate reading of the amount of battery charge available. When the display shows only red bars, we advise that the batteries should be charged before a journey is attempted. To further reinforce this message, the display will start to flash slowly, when only 2 bars are illuminated.

On VSI, VR2 & S-drive you can reprogram the controller so that any number of bars can be set to flash slowly. For example, it is possible to reprogram the flash 'threshold' to 7 bars so that the display will flash as it falls into the yellow section. Furthermore, on these 3 products it is also possible to program an alarm, which will sound in addition to the flashing display. The alarm is a discrete 'beep' which will recur approximately every 10 seconds to alert the end-user to charge their batteries urgently. The 2 parameters that require altering are 'Low Battery Flash Level' & 'Low Battery Alarm', both located in the PC Programmer battery menu, (or within the 'Engineering Menu' on hand-held programmers).

If you do not have access to 'B' level programming tools, you can return the controller to our Customer Services Department, where they will be happy to effect the change for you.