I once had trouble with batteries in my accuchek Aviva -kept saying batteries dead even though had only just changed them. I rang Accuchek and they said not all CR3032 batteries fitted properly and to get a specific brand from them.
That's interesting. CR2032 is supposed to be made to very specific dimensions, so "fitting" properly really
shouldn't be an issue. There is a very similar looking, but slightly thinner version called a CR2025, which perhaps someone could mistakenly fit and which would fail to properly contact.
I think it's the electrical characteristic that makes the real difference between premium and cheepo brands. I've seen this before with other devices, where the cheep button cells just cant supply the required current levels for some applications.
If you register your meter with them they will send you vouchers for free batteries from Boots (used to send the actual batteries).
Yeah I was given this meter by the DN and she told that me about that at the time. TBH I was so sick with the diabetes at the time that I never got around to doing it.
I've reset it like Noblehead suggested and for now it's going ok. Probably a dumb move but I've also bought a bunch of stupidly cheep CR2030 batteries from ebay. I think I got 20 batteries for the price of about one premium one. I actually got these a few weeks ago when I was getting totally feed up with the "low battery" error all the time, and figured that even if the cheep ones only last a month or two that those 20 would still be worthwhile. I'll update this thread when I test these new one, see if they even work at all.