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Well, living in Wales-I never expected to experience this!!!!
Went exploring today, and had my remote contol in my bum bag. My explorations weren't in a hot car or such like-they were up a mountain looking for mine entrances and in a pretty much wooded area...after a while up there, walked home and took off my bum bag and put on patio table.
Had 2 cups of tea with my friend on the patio and thought that I better do a blood test...
The remote wouldn't switch on at all. Tried and tried and remote was blank. Went indoors, in the shade, out of shade etc...just dead....
Went indoors and got spare batteries...my friend was assisting me and took out the old batteries, and said 'have you felt the heat of these batteries?''-they were burning hot......he swopped them over for the new ones...and tried the remote....still dead. We both thought, leave for a few minutes and try again before getting out the spare meter...Then tried and got a message that the remote had overheated...and I think it was an E54 message..saying to place remote in a cooler place......friend suggested the fridge...but declined that and put it on a granite worktop without cover etc to cool down.....
Tried a couple minutes later...and everything ok......and remains so.
I have never experienced this with my remote before, or with any blood test machine to be honest. It was not exceptionally hot here, but it was hotter than normal. My bag containing my remote was on patio table, but it was not in direct sun, and the bag was zipped up.
Just a warning to others that this can happen. I was aware of pumps not getting too hot-because of the insulin, but was not aware that a remote could overheat in less than hot heat....and appear totally dead.....only after the batteries were changed did it give the overheating message......
Well, living in Wales-I never expected to experience this!!!!
Went exploring today, and had my remote contol in my bum bag. My explorations weren't in a hot car or such like-they were up a mountain looking for mine entrances and in a pretty much wooded area...after a while up there, walked home and took off my bum bag and put on patio table.
Had 2 cups of tea with my friend on the patio and thought that I better do a blood test...
The remote wouldn't switch on at all. Tried and tried and remote was blank. Went indoors, in the shade, out of shade etc...just dead....
Went indoors and got spare batteries...my friend was assisting me and took out the old batteries, and said 'have you felt the heat of these batteries?''-they were burning hot......he swopped them over for the new ones...and tried the remote....still dead. We both thought, leave for a few minutes and try again before getting out the spare meter...Then tried and got a message that the remote had overheated...and I think it was an E54 message..saying to place remote in a cooler place......friend suggested the fridge...but declined that and put it on a granite worktop without cover etc to cool down.....
Tried a couple minutes later...and everything ok......and remains so.
I have never experienced this with my remote before, or with any blood test machine to be honest. It was not exceptionally hot here, but it was hotter than normal. My bag containing my remote was on patio table, but it was not in direct sun, and the bag was zipped up.
Just a warning to others that this can happen. I was aware of pumps not getting too hot-because of the insulin, but was not aware that a remote could overheat in less than hot heat....and appear totally dead.....only after the batteries were changed did it give the overheating message......