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The
Anklelite products is usually delivered with a charge already
stored in its energy store.
Anklelite
will charge from Artificial light
 and
natural sunlight
 Charging
Indicator
A
small red LED illuminates when the unit is charging.
On a bright sunny Summer’s day in direct sunlight you will
get one hour of light out for one hour of light in to
the Anklelite product. Therefore 6 to 7 hours would
fully charge that unit. As the quality of light goes
down then the charge time goes up and if you do not
“fill” the charge cell then the time it will run for
goes down.
Anklelite has 6+ hours flashing light
and therefore is not usually fully discharged. In
normal operation Anklelite will be used for a couple of hours, turned then off and
then it re-charges to full capacity.
Use
Simply push the mode switch once to turn on, push again
to start flash mode and push again to turn off.
It is that simple. It is a push switch so you can
use it when you are wearing gloves or your hands are
cold or hot.
"Charge-On"
Switch
Just set the "Charge-On" switch to "On" and leave it there
for normal operation. It is an intentionally small
switch so that you do not knock it or accidently change
the setting when using Anklelite.
The unit will charge with the "Charge-On" in either the
"Charge" or the "On" position.
No Charging Indicator
If you put the Anklelite in direct sunlight and the
small red LED fails to illuminate first check the 'what
to do if a unit is fully discharged' section below and
then please contact
Pedalite at
customerhelp@pedalite.com.
What if the Anklelite is fully
discharged ?
There are
several ways that an Anklelite can be fully discharged.
The most obvious is just turning it on and leaving it
on, eventually it will become fully discharged.
Physics graduates will be able to describe some other
rare events that can achieve a discharge of the stored
power. One of the most obscure ways that
Anklelites can be discharged is that customs will turn
some of the units on, as they enter a country, to check
that they are what they say they are. It is also true
that capacitors loose their power very slowly over time
and we have been told of lightening strikes on
containers when the products are shipped by sea (this is
why, although we always charge the units before delivery
we can never guarantee that they are fully charged when
they are purchased).
When an
Anklelite has been fully discharged it is
possible that the charging indicator will not even light
up. If you suspect that a unit is fully discharged
then first switch the on-charge switch to the charge
position (this will disable all functions except the
charging mode).
The
electronics in a Anklelite need a tiny amount of power
to manage the storing of power (it is a real challenge
that you need power to collect power). In the
unusual condition of a full discharge an Anklelite needs
a BOOST of light energy to get the recharging process
started again. The best "boost of energy" is the
sun! This is the ONLY time when we
recommend that an Anklelite HAS to be recharged in
natural sunlight. In the event of a full
discharge,
please place the Anklelite
OUTSIDE in direct sunlight
(outside not through a window)
so there is
no “filter” to the natural light being absorbed,
don't worry if it is a grey winter day, you would be
amazed how much light filters through clouds.
Leave the
Anklelilte in the direct sunlight for several hours (to
boost it and get it going again it really needs to be
outside all day) and
then check that a charge has been accepted by switching
the Charge-On switch back to on and putting the unit
into flash mode. The lights should flash and the unit
should be back to normal. We recommend that from a
full-discharge position you charge your Anklelite in
sunlight for at least 12 hours (although it should not
need this long this will definitely bring it back to the
correct charged state).
In the
unlikely event that after completing this recharge from
empty process the unit does not function correctly
please contact Pedalite at
customerhelp@pedalite.com. |