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Tempest Owners
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I also took advantage of the 50% off. Out the door less than 20 bucks and that included free shipping…at least in the states.

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I installed my power booster on Friday and it looks like my firmware just hit 165 sometime today. The battery level of my Tempest is still hovering around 2.41v. Should I have seen an increase by now? I’m concerned my Tempest has a dud battery since it’s been in a low power state since October.

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Hello Tristan,

Your booster is seen by the Tempest but indeed it doesn’t seem to charge up really. Could you do one thing before I send you to support. If not to hard to do and you have some voltmeter, measure between the 2 outer pogo’s. You should see something like 3.5V. At least we can be sure the booster works.

If this is true then I think the charge circuit of the Tempest is having an issue and you need to open a support ticket. You will be helped over there.

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wouldn’t it be wise to unplug the power and/or batteries of the booster and insert them again before measuring? The tempest might have told the powerbooster to stop charging.

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Thanks I did measure and see approximately 3.4v.

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This means the booster is working. Most probably the charging board is broke. Time to open a support ticket and they will help you out. Link is in top navigation bar. Won’t be long to get a response today. Sorry for the trouble.

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Thanks Eric, I’ve gone ahead and opened a support ticket. From your experience why do the charging boards typically fail?

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I just got mine today. Wow what a great top off solution for those long cloudy periods we get. Just what the doctor ordered. here is a photo of my installation

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Okay, what are these things? I’m mystified. I assume some kind of wire management? I can’t figure out how they’re supposed to be used.

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Included with the Power Booster is a rubber plug and a spare. Fit the plug over the flat cable and slide it into the wafer base. The plug only fits one way.

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It will help keep moisture out while the Tempest device is locked onto the top portion of the “wafer.”

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Thanks! This was not mentioned in the printed set of instructions I received with my power booster.

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Yeah. . .I noticed that too immediately upon receiving mine last month. I had to “hunt” around for it. . .finally found it on the WF Power Booster Accessory page that tells about it.

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I have forwarded this internally with the request to add the info in future prints. Not sure how many are still on stock but if we don’t ask … we don’t get :slight_smile:
Thanks for bringing this up.

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Just ordered mine— if that cable is just a network cable, will it take power via PoE? :thinking:

In which case I could run a cable up from my router and use one of the available PoE ports to supply power. I’m not in a lightning-prone area so I’m not overly worried about risking my network, I’ve got some old plain cat5 I could use for this that I have no other use for because I run a gigabit network.

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While the cable is a CAT-6 cable, the “brains” of the unit are in the battery holder part.

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Speaking of plugs it would be nice to include a dust cover for the DC power receptacle for those of us using batteries only.

Easy enough to fill the receptacle with “super lube” but it’d be cleaner if there was a dust cover or rubber plug to fill that space.

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A small piece of electrical tape would do it if you’re that bothered

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Welcome to the group!! :grinning: