Centurion D5 Not Responding To Remote
Lorrine Hatala
A customer recently logged a call asher Centurion sliding gate motor was not working. The symptom she gave was when the powerwas off caused the centurion gate motorbeeping two times every couple of seconds. When the power was turned on,the gate motor was no longer beeping but would not respond to being opened or closedvia the remote control.Ssecurity was a serious concern forthis customer, and leaving the gate on manual override over night would not bean option. We sent out one of ourtechnicians on the same day to assess the issue. His diagnoses accurately concluded that thebattery power supply charger had beendamaged. The customer confirmed thatthere had been severe lightening strikes in the area a day before noticing the Centuriongate motor beeping. So thetechnician could explain why centurion gate motor beeping. The battery was not being re-charged by thepower supply charger.
The technician replaced the blown batterypower supply charger with a newone. We carry stock in our vehicles sothat we can fix an issue immediately on site and not have to return later withthe part. It was then observed that the battery was not charging fully and thegate was sluggish to open. He thenadvised that the battery needed changing too. Once this was done the sliding gate was back up and running to normalfunction much to the customers relief.
3 beeps means the battery is runninglow. Either the battery is old or a severe thunderstorm with lightening couldhave tripped the trip switch on the DB board and therefore the battery is notbeing recharged.
This in itself is not surprising, since centurions would have been a part of the Roman occupation force in Judea and Galilee in the first century. What is surprising is that these representatives of Roman occupation are portrayed in quite positive ways in the New Testament and here in Luke 7:1-10. They end up responding to Jesus and his kingdom message with a recognition of his identity and, sometimes, with faith.
The centurion in Luke 7:1-10 fits this surprising profile. He is a Gentile (and presumably Roman, although not all members of the Roman army were ethnically Roman), who seeks Jesus out for the healing of his slave. This oppressor of the Jewish people initiates a conversation with a Jewish healer. He sends Jewish elders to speak on his behalf to Jesus to prove that he has been a patron of the Jewish people (7:3). Then he sends his friends to keep Jesus from coming to his house, expressing confidently and with an analogy from his own role in the Roman army that this Jewish healer, Jesus, is able heal from a distance (7:6-8).