Elk Transmitter/Low Battery

Hey guys, brain farting here as it's been years since I had this error and my google-fu is failing me.
 
I'm getting an Elk Transmitter/Low Battery. No zone #, so I don't think it's my any of my wireless zones. IIRC the last time this happened I was getting a zone # so I could tell which zone had the issue but I might be wrong.  The Elk log only reports a "transmitter low battery" problem. 
 
The M1XRFTW is hooked up to an expander in a different location with it's own battery,could that be it? I thought I got a different kind of error last time that happened though.
 
Thx.

I'd replace all of the sensor batteries at the same time if it is possible.
 
I looked online and couldn't find an answer but I did see that you have to remove the old battery for at least 2-seconds before replacing with new and then open and close the zone a few times to signal the panel that it has been replaced.
 
Mike.
 
EDIT - Crackers in the keyboard - you need to remove the batteries for 20 seconds not 2 seconds.

well my hail mary worked. I realized one of my zones was a non-alarm zone. I'm 99% sure that my last low-battery situation was in an alarm zone, and the Elk told me which one. Since it wasn't telling me this time, I wondered if there was a missed error condition in the Elk system code to not trap the offending zone number if it's non alarm. 
 
Sure enough, that was the weak zone. I did a voltage check with my multi-meter, it wasn't that weak, 2.8 volts vs a fresh battery showing 3.3 volts, but enough I guess to send a warning.
 
Thx. I did end up pulling for 20 seconds, but not intentionally - it just took that long to check the voltage.

Hi,
 
When I get a low batter warning I fire up RP2, connect and fetch the the records from the log - this has always told me exactly what zone(s) where having low battery problems.
 
Frederick

Frederick C. Wilt said:

Hi,
 
When I get a low batter warning I fire up RP2, connect and fetch the the records from the log - this has always told me exactly what zone(s) where having low battery problems.
 
Frederick

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That was the first thing I tried. Log had no entry about it, with just the "Transmitter Low Battery" text on the status area. I tried checking the log multiple times after multiple warnings on multiple days, so this isn't a logged event.

Just had this problem myself, mine showed in the log.