Battery passivation

If you find that a new battery you had does not appear to work, most likely it is due to storage time. Unfortunately we made the battery life on the DL2000 last too long and so other batteries you may have are 'old' by the time you need them! :D

In these cases the battery simply needs to be depassivated (have a current load so it 'wakes up').

Case 1: Pulses work, arousal inducer resets the device (green flashes)
Solution: Set a pulse timer with 1 tick interval, 70 repetitions, pulse level high. Let the receiver do its thing. That should restore function.

Case 2: Pulses reset the device.
Solution: Plug the battery into the remote control (Same voltage and connector), then send 100 commands from the remote control (no need for a receiver to be present). Then try it again in the receiver.

If these do not work your battery is actually depleted. These tips only work if the battery is new but has been sitting for a long time. They cannot restore a used battery.

If you want to buy new batteries locally the cell type is LS14250. It is a spiral type LiSoCl2 cell, please stay away from non-lisocl2 batteries of the same shape as they may malfunction (not enough discharge current). The connector is a molex 51021 (2 pins).

The battery construction diagram is below:

By dreamloverlabs at 2020-12-17 09:45:58 Reply

** Please do not try to recharge the black receiver battery when it's plugged into the remote ** the cell chemistry is NOT RECHARGEABLE, giving it a voltage will cause it to fail, in a possibly unsafe way.

By bdsamm at 2021-09-07 20:52:46 Reply

This works. I had this exact situation. Put in a new battery that had never been used but I got it several months ago and have no idea how long the seller had it. I installed the battery and tested it. The pulses worked fine but the arousal inducer would immediately cause reset.

So I set the times pulses on high, 1 tick between and 70 repetitions. I did that and then tried it. Same problem. Did it again, twice and still same problem. Put it back in the drawer and figured I needed to order new batteries. Came back in a couple of hours and the arousal inducer worked perfectly. Maybe the constant low load of the receiver finished the process.

By SissyBarbie1066 at 2021-10-28 01:34:45 Reply

I have been searching for the connector listed in the diagram as part number CON097A-6 but all I get is 6 pin connectors. Could it not be CON097A-2 ? These batteries are very elusive. I have bought one so called 1/2 AA battery of the right type but it is too big to fit the DL-2000. The ones which are the right size have no cable and a prohibition on soldering to them directly. I am spending hours (and some money) trying to find the correct type. Please point your users in the right direction.

By dreamloverlabs at 2021-11-03 06:27:24 Reply

The connector is a molex 51021 (2 pins).

By ahsdfjklhfw at 2022-04-16 22:37:57 Reply

Hey, how is everything on your end doing?

The blog hasn't been updated in quite a long time. I'm curious if the engineers over there have been up to anything interesting.