Any backup battery or memory to preserve time of day and programs after power outage? Reviews suggest not.
1504777
Dear Florida, I looked through the owner's manual, and I can find no reference to a backup battery. I have experienced several power outtages, and all settings including time and date were preserved each time. Willy seems to have had a different experience with losing time and date, so you're left to figure out which one answers your question. Have you called/written Rainbird? That would give you your most authoritative rather than anecdotal answer. I've had nothing but good performance from my unit which I've had for nearly 3 years. The manual one-zone-at-a-time limitation has not been an issue for me, but I can understand it could be annoying for some.
1504778
I don't understand the answers, mine was never a problem with time after a power outage, but I did hate the fact you could not program all zones, so I sold mine, and bought the new model that does. The unique thing about this timer is how simple it is to run and to program.
1504779
Dear Florida, I looked through the owner's manual, and I can find no reference to a backup battery. I have experienced several power outtages, and all settings including time and date were preserved each time. Willy seems to have had a different experience with losing time and date, so you're left to figure out which one answers your question. Have you called/written Rainbird? That would give you your most authoritative rather than anecdotal answer. I've had nothing but good performance from my unit which I've had for nearly 3 years. The manual one-zone-at-a-time limitation has not been an issue for me, but I can understand it could be annoying for some. Dear Florida, I looked through the owner's manual, and I can find no reference to a backup battery. I have experienced several power outtages, and all settings including time and date were preserved each time. Willy seems to have had a different experience with losing time and date, so you're left to figure out which one answers your question. Have you called/written Rainbird? That would give you your most authoritative rather than anecdotal answer. I've had nothing but good performance from my unit which I've had for nearly 3 years. The manual one-zone-at-a-time limitation has not been an... » Read More Dear Florida, I looked through the owner's manual, and I can find no reference to a backup battery. I have experienced several power outtages, and all settings including time and date were preserved each time. Willy seems to have had a different experience with losing time and date, so you're left to figure out which one answers your question. Have you called/written Rainbird? That would give you your most authoritative rather than anecdotal answer. I've had nothing but good performance from my unit which I've had for nearly 3 years. The manual one-zone-at-a-time limitation has not been an issue for me, but I can understand it could be annoying for some. « Show Less
1504780
I got this message from Amazon.com. I have had this for 1-1/2 years. We have power outages all to often where we live, however I've never had a problem with the programmable functions. My biggest complaint with the device was that the manual function only works for one zone at a time. In other words, you can't set it on zone one in manual mode and have it go through all the zones.
1504781
No! Memory is preserved for zones However this is useless because the current time/date has no backup and is lost
1504782
D. Higgins must have a different box. I can run all zones with one button. SST900i
1504783
Willy's right. It's not the best unit out there. My biggest complaint with it is that you can't just "run" all the programs starting "now", you either let it run them when scheduled, or you have to manually start each section. Not good. My older rainbird was much better, but it was fried by lightning.
1504784
Yes. It has battery back up for power outages to keep time and settings but will not run your sprinklers on battery power.
2139589
This is a battery backup system for your computer. It don't care what you plug into, it will provide limited battery backup for any Windows system. I use it for telephone backup when we lose power and it will provide power for my magicjack for several hours. However, it will only backup your computer system for a matter of minutes in order for you to shut your system down. And by the way, I never got the "software" from the company that manufactured the backup system. Apparently my system wasn't compatible with their software although we tried many times over several weeks we never got it to work. On the other hand I plugged my system into the backup and it worked perfectly without the software. I'm very satisfied with the battery backup system. It's a batter similar to the battery in your car, but much much smaller. I wish you luck.
2022803
Power failure is not problem, unit will work when power restored without re-programimg
193440
It depends upon the number of devices that your unit is going to provide power to via its internal battery. Without that knowledge it is impossible to provide you with an answer. My unit states that it will provide approximately 30 minutes of battery backup power. During a power outage it would be supplying power via its internal battery to a notebook, a docking station, a monitor, a phone, a modem and router. Hope that helps.
615551
yes,the laptop has a removable battery which can last for several hours without plugging in. There is no extra backup battery with this laptop. hope it will help. let me know if u have additional questions. thanks
2005030
It has a battery inside that will keep the memory intact if the power goes out. It doesn't have an operational battery backup, meaning employees cannot clock in and out when the power is out. We have ours hooked up to an APC UPS battery unit. Honestly, even if Icon offered a battery, it'd probably be just as much (or more) than an APC.
401587
Yes, once the unit has been plugged in and charged, it has a back-up battery that will preserve time and settings during intermittent power outages.
500362
Actually you do not need a battery backup for these items. A high quality Surge strip will cover them. The Battery Backups are really meant for computers, phone systems and medical devices that need to stay on during a brief power outage. I use one in my office for the Cable Modem (voice and internet), the Router, my main office PC, and the cordless phone base. I have a couple of these 350's in another office on the phone CPE (basically a modem), the phone switch and internet router. If you do get one think about what gets plugged into the battery side and what is on the surge protected side.
1982040
This is not a battery, it is a battery backup for electronics. It will provide some amount of run time for your electronics after a power outage depending on how much you have plugged into the device and will automatically power down your devices if so enabled. It does start to BEEP when the power goes out and we are talking about minutes use time, not hours, long enough to save your work and shutdown your electronics gracefully.
2235242
If you're having so many regular power failures you should have backup power anyway since that kind of thing is really, really bad for your system. At some point you're absolutely going to lose data or your system will become unstable. - Trust me, I work in IT.
1157323
no...the only thing the batteries do, is keep the date constant in event of a power outage
1440647
No battery backup built in but it uses the battery from the the alarm system. It has retained my zwave configurations after being disconnected. Most of the alarm programming is retained on your alarm system. IP address and such is usually DHCP.
1029820
You must supply a power source, so battery backup would be a good option to think about.
530503
We suggest you to consider another product, which is almost the same product but with MEMORY FUNCTION. You only need to set it up once and then it will "memorize" your settings after power cycle. The ASIN# for that product is B00BCA440E. You can use this number as keyword to search in Amazon.
492900
No. After use I unplug from electricity. I use this only once a moth to backup my computers.
207487
Doesn't have the battery but somehow it keeps memory for short, 30 min power los. I have checked this feature.
936942
It has a battery backup in case the power goes out but not sure how long that will last for