{"id":1926,"date":"2014-03-11T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2014-03-08T18:54:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T16:54:07","slug":"howto-change-a-centurion-d5-gate-motor-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/?p=1926","title":{"rendered":"HOWTO: Change a Centurion D5 Gate Motor Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Topic-HowTo\"<\/p>\n

Today I start a new section in this blog – the HowTo Section.<\/p>\n

In this section I hope to add “How To’s”<\/em> for things that I have managed to accomplish myself (obviously with some advise and maybe a little of help from others) but thought that it was pretty cool that I could do it, and thought to share it. \u00a0I am not a handyman but with enough practice I may get better at DIYing \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

This post is about the Centurion D5 Evo Electric Gate Motor battery<\/strong> <\/span>replacement.<\/p>\n

Our gate motor was installed in 2012 and been functioning fine until lately. Opening it twice in short succession would cause a warning beep to come from the motor – 3 beeps every 2 seconds. This started occurring more often so I decided to give Mark from Access Security System<\/a>\u00a0a call. He said that the battery is not just a backup when there is a power failure, but also is used when electricity is there and the gate is in use. He said that the 3 beeps was a battery low warning and suggested that I replace it.<\/p>\n

He delivered a replacement battery for me and fate would have it that for the next two days it rained (and caused my wife to have to wait for the battery to “recharge” before the gate would close the one morning) \u00a0before I could replace it.<\/p>\n

Anyway here are the steps to quickly replace the battery.<\/p>\n

1. First TURN OFF the power supply to the motor. \u00a0You want to do this!<\/p>\n

2. Remove your anti-theft bracket for the motor and unlock the green plastic lid. \u00a0This will expose the internals of the motor.<\/p>\n

3. There is a clip that holds the controller board in place. Push this gently away from you (don’t break it) and lift the controller board up (see photo below)<\/p>\n

\"Once<\/a>

Once the green cover is off you can see the internals of the motor<\/p><\/div>\n

4. There are 2 other clips holding the controller board in place (closest to you). Lift the controller board off the top cover and let it hang there. You want to lift up that cover that it was laying on to get to the battery.<\/p>\n

\"You<\/a>

You need to lift the controller board off the cover<\/p><\/div>\n

5. There are 2 clips now on the black top cover (that the controller board was laying on) \u00a0that you need to unclip (gently – don’t break anything now) and then it can lift up to the right on the hinges<\/p>\n

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\"Unclip<\/a>

Unclip and then lift to the right and up (it has got hinges)<\/p><\/div>\n

6. Tada! You can now access the battery! \u00a0Unclip the cables from the terminals and then lift the battery out. Place the new one in its place and reconnect the terminals (same colours!). \u00a0Make sure that they sit tightly on the terminals.<\/p>\n

\"Tada!<\/a>

Tada! Finally we have access to the battery. Disconnect the terminals and replace with new battery.<\/p><\/div>\n

7. Flip the black top cover back into place and put the controller back into its place. Test and close up!<\/p>\n

(Note: The first time you test it, it will open and close vvvveeerrrryyyy slowly…this is normal. Seems the system is just making sure everything is fine)<\/p>\n

As you can see, not that difficult to do and should not take more than 15 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I start a new section in this blog – the HowTo Section. In this section I hope to add “How To’s” for things that I have managed to accomplish myself (obviously with some advise and maybe a little of help from others) but thought that it was pretty cool that I could do it, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1940,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}