Battery Maintenance - Primex XR Series Install Manual

Battery Maintenance

The battery life of an Analog Clock is over four years with use of high-quality alkaline batteries. Therefore, it's important that
fresh, superior-quality batteries are used with an expiration date that exceeds five years past the current year.
Low battery notification
When the batteries of an Analog Clock need to be replaced its second hand advances and pauses continuously (stepping),
instead of one second at a time until the batteries are replaced. The clock may display the correct time, but the batteries should
be replaced promptly to restore normal operation. The stepping pattern continues until its batteries are replaced.
Battery requirements
New, high quality alkaline batteries.
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Batteries should be the same type and date code.
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The battery expiration date should be at least 5 years in the future.
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The use of heavy duty and zinc carbon batteries is NOT recommended as they have a shorter life span and have risk of leakage
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if over discharged.
Do NOT use rechargeable NiCad batteries as their output voltage is too low to assure proper operation.
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Do NOT use standard lithium batteries.
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