The local dealer from whom I purchased this robot in 1998 has long since stopped supporting repairs, etc for the Leica products they sold. I recently dropped this battery cover. It usually only takes a quarter turn on the knob to do its thing (lock/unlock the battery). Now the knob spins and spins and sometimes eventually locks/unlocks. I am not a handy man. To whom should I ship this battery cover for repair/replacement?
If you're willing to pay the travel expenses, I'm willing to escort it back home and check with it's parents 😉
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I have a TCA1100 three second robot. Battery GEB87. It became obvious that little battery would not do the job very long in the robot mode. So I got GEB70 and GEB71 the small red brick and large red brick. Pulling the battery off my unit I can't see any obvious breaks between you photograph here and my cover. If you unit is not a robot I suppose it would be plenty of battery for you use. But you can get a cable ot connect the GEB70 or GEB71 to the instrument. They are rather costly, you can check on E-bay for the cable. If you get the bricks of course you will need a charger. I can't remember how I charged the GEB87 it's been so long since I charged that battery. My GEB87 battery has a five prong plug in that any of the Leica chargers that has the five pin plug will charge the battery. The serial number of my unit is 270309, so your unit is onewer than mine by a thousand more or less. Your battery is a GEB187 so I suppose it is not the original battery. It looks a little different from the GEB87 in my unit. My instrument was made in 1996, the date on yours is 1998. You can just go with the brick and get a Y cable if you use a data collector. I assume your unit is not a robot. One of the bricks would give you a lot of power compared to the GEB187 or GEB87. Good Luck.
jerry m. davis, post: 428386, member: 417 wrote: I have a TCA1100 three second robot. Battery GEB87. It became obvious that little battery would not do the job very long in the robot mode. So I got GEB70 and GEB71 the small red brick and large red brick. Pulling the battery off my unit I can't see any obvious breaks between you photograph here and my cover. If you unit is not a robot I suppose it would be plenty of battery for you use. But you can get a cable ot connect the GEB70 or GEB71 to the instrument. They are rather costly, you can check on E-bay for the cable. If you get the bricks of course you will need a charger. I can't remember how I charged the GEB87 it's been so long since I charged that battery. My GEB87 battery has a five prong plug in that any of the Leica chargers that has the five pin plug will charge the battery. The serial number of my unit is 270309, so your unit is onewer than mine by a thousand more or less. Your battery is a GEB187 so I suppose it is not the original battery. It looks a little different from the GEB87 in my unit. My instrument was made in 1996, the date on yours is 1998. You can just go with the brick and get a Y cable if you use a data collector. I assume your unit is not a robot. One of the bricks would give you a lot of power compared to the GEB187 or GEB87. Good Luck.
Mine is a robot. It runs great without the brick,...
EDIT: ... once I switched the radios to blue tooth. Really all i need is a little repair to the plastic outer housing battery cover.
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Looking at the photograph of the battery holder, it appears to have a crack on the bottom corners of the cover, might try to get a good fast drying glue and press those corners together. My unit had the old data collector with a cable to the data collector (the data collector looked like an old GPS controller) and radio in a little fanny belt pack, in the pack was a small brick. It powered the radio and the data collector with a "Y" cable, it usually took two small bricks to run the data collector set up, the instrument I had powered by a big brick and it usually took two bricks to have a day of power. It had a "Y" cable to power the radio and the instrument. Data collection software was loaded on the Instrument, TDS data collection was the software driving the data collection. It has some Leica Software on board also but I never used that to drive the instrument. If you want to keep the unit running, take a look on E-Bay and one day you will find one that you can use for parts. A "Y" cable should get you by with a brick, the big brick is real heavy but lasts a lot longer than the small brick. It's a real good unit but is mighty heavy compared to the newer ones.
I know it might be late but I manage to manufacture mine?ÿ
might not be the same model but I used the design from your pictures.
