7 hours ago, Driller said:

 Very surprising to have this on a brand new panel.

 

the panels probably been drop kicked by DPD or similar before you got it ?

1 hour ago, MrHappy said:

 

the panels probably been drop kicked by DPD or similar before you got it ?

Bought in person over the counter, don’t know whether they use DPD or not. Would have thought there would have been other damage if it was shaken enough to force those spring contacts but the rest of the panel looks fine

Edited August 4, 20223 yr by Driller

7 hours ago, Driller said:

Bought in person over the counter, don’t know whether they use DPD or not.

 

either collected on velvet pillow & lovingly transported to the branch

 

or

 

dropped kicked into a sprinter van by a parcel man...

5 hours ago, MrHappy said:

dropped kicked into a sprinter van 

 

Reminds me of my first date with the wife

On 04/08/2022 at 00:41, Driller said:

Update for anyone with the same problem who finds this thread: Got back on site and popped the coin battery out, measured a good 3V. Put it back and it seemed a bit loose so bent the battery contacts, put the battery back in and did a cold restart: panel now keeps it's configuration, so it was due to loose contacts on memory battery. Very surprising to have this on a brand new panel.

Atleast you know how to take battery out with bending pins in future well done ?

7 hours ago, al-yeti said:

Atleast you know how to take battery out with bending pins in future well done ?

True, I like your way of thinking, a bit like, "I never lose: either I win or I learn" ?

I was never a fan of the use of a bios battery In these panels   I prefer the galaxy g2 approach better with a NVM

 

And who remembers the old galaxy's with the capacitor to store the programming which would wipe their programming I'd you left them off for too long 

9 hours ago, Imnotshankled said:

I was never a fan of the use of a bios battery In these panels   I prefer the galaxy g2 approach better with a NVM

 

And who remembers the old galaxy's with the capacitor to store the programming which would wipe their programming I'd you left them off for too long 

That's why it's the g2 though.....

Also different generations.