Am I not charging my E-Mag correctly?!

[Valadian]

I bought the 273-1779 12VDC/1500mA AC-to-DC Adapter from radio shack so that I could charge my Emag at home. However I am wondering if I am even doing it correctly or what the deal is. I remove the battery pack, plug the box in on top of it and plug the adapter into the box. Light goes red, I leave. Come back later and find the light to be green. So according to the charger, red means "fast charging" and green means "charged and ready to go" or something like that. So I think "yay" but then I plug it into the gun, see "AGD 1.37" come on, then it disappears, gun seems ok for a sec, but then it starts flashing "LO BATT" at me. Isnt it supposed to be charged? Am I doing something wrong? Is it possible to fry the battery somehow or could I have a defective battery? The gun is still relatively new. HELP!

[Load SM5]

Have you tried using the car charger? Does it do the same thing?

[Valadian]

gonna give it a shot.....

[Dude]

You have a defective charger. The EXACT same thing happened with my E-Mag when I had it, before I got a new charger. Call AGD and ask for a new charger.

[AGD]

Some of the chargers come on green pre-maturely. Just leave it on for a few hours and it should charge up fine.

AGD

[Valadian]

Thanks for the help Mr. K, however is it possible that Dude is right and I have a defective charger? When I first plug it in, the thing turns green and then goes red after about 30 seconds. Oh well I've decided to leave it on for the night and check it in the morning, then if its still goofy I'm gonna try the car charger when I head back to college tomorrow. Thanks again for all the help everyone.

[Valadian]

Well, I left the thing plugged into the wall and charging from around mid afternoon yesterday till about noon today. Tried plugging it in and I'm still getting the "LO BATT" message. So.............. anyone have a clue what this means? Either has to be: The wall adapter, the charger itself, or the battery. Well I guess the gun coulda gone crazy

Anyhow I'm hoping and praying its just the charger, to try to narrow things down more, I'm gonna try driving around and charging the gun to see if that changes anything. What are the chances of the battery itself being screwey? I've only played with the gun once, and other than that its just been me messing around with it, like taking shots out back, I've also been charging it, but I guess if the charger is screwey then I've really just slowly been draining the battery since its never really charged. Any further help? Looks like I might have to call AGD up tomorrow.

It's a great gun other than that, I like it much more than the various Angels I've played with, good job AGD!

[Load SM5]

Originally posted by Valadian
Well, I left the thing plugged into the wall and charging from around mid afternoon yesterday till about noon today. Tried plugging it in and I'm still getting the "LO BATT" message. So.............. anyone have a clue what this means? Either has to be: The wall adapter, the charger itself, or the battery.

Have you tried it in your car for a few hours, and not the wall adapter?

If so my guess would be the charger. I don't suppose you have a bud with an e-mag so you could borrow his?

[Valadian]

Nope Load have yet to try the car charger, but I plan to tonight when I head back to college. And if that doesnt work then we may have it narrowed down somewhat to the charger. I take it the chances of the battery being the problem aren't too great?

[Load SM5]

I just think a charger is more likely to be the cause than a stack of batteries that has been working up until now. I could be wrong but....

Hopefully the car charger will work for you. If it does'nt I'll mail you mine to try out so we can narrow it down a little further.

[Valadian]

Seriously? That'd be awesome, but I dont know if you'd have to go to such great lengths, I can always just call up AGD and ask them for a replacement, or see what they suggest. Anywho, thanks again! I'll post later tonight after I've tried out the car charger.

[Valadian]

Well I've driven or 30 minutes and have been charging the battery, while it never went green, I do think that it should have been a decent amount of time to charge the battery past the point where it would be saying "LO BATT", shouldn't it? So as you all can probably guess, I'm still getting the "LO BATT" message which leads me to believe that its either the charger or the battery. Any further advice or should I just give AGD a call in the morning?

[Load SM5]

Call AGD. They'll get you fixed up. The offer to borrow the charger still stands.

[Valadian]

Alright, thanks alot Load, you've been a big help. I'll give em a call tomorrow and get things sorted out =)

[Fleisher]

Something you could try ,the battery can get a"memory" ie false charge level, best thing to do is make sure its totally drained,then give it 16 hours on a wall socket ,this should wipe the memory.All you need to do then is top it up via the car charger before you use it and drain it/16 hour charge every so often.