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New remote batteries will provide at least 6 VDC. I could just replace the batteries but am curious as to what voltage the remote will begin to fail. My remote is intermittently shutting down at 5.2 volts or approximately 1.3 volts per battery. I don’t see the low battery icon so I don’t want to be throwing away batteries with some life in them. Though I have DCS WiFi, the remote comes in handy at times.

Thanks...Rich

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Truthfully, there's no issue using batteries until the remote notices they're low.  I've never experienced, or even heard of, real damage to the equipment from low batteries.  It's a normal happening, and it's pretty well covered by the design of the various remotes.  Lots of things are cheap, but I don't buy them until I need them.  I have customers that want new traction tires regularly, even though the old ones are perfectly fine.  Just another way to throw money away.

I run my DCS remotes on rechargeable NiMh batteries, and they only provide maybe 1.3V when fully charged, the remotes run for weeks on them.

I'd rather pool all those savings and buy a new locomotive in a few months.

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