Westinghouse WST1600A Unplugged Cord-Free Vacuum how to condition battery

Hi, all you have to do is google the make and model and several results will be thrown up. There appear to be many suppliers accros the States
Good Luck

try this link
http://www.thinkvacuums.com/pdf/uprights/Westinghouse-WST1600A.PDF

Here is a copy of the manual for your vacuum

www.thinkvacuums.com/pdf/uprights/Westinghouse-WST1600A.pdf

What could be the problem is the battery could be shot after not being used for so many years that the life of the battery is done. I would recommend taking it to a local vacuum store and have them take a look at the connections between where the battery goes and the motor.

these cordless units are no more than a broom. toss it out and go buy a real vacuum with a cord. FYI cheap vacuums are cheap vacuums. if you want something to last a do a great job you have to put out a little more money for it.

I too was looking for a battery for the WST1500a. I took the charger and a defective battery pack to BATTERIES PLUS. They rebuilt the pack with new fresh and fully charaged batteries in a short time. The result was good and better then a new battery pack that had been sitting on a store's shelf for 5 years. The advantage is that they are new batteries with a correct charage. The cost was about 75 dollars.

BATTERIES PLUS is a chain and are available in many large cities.

If you need a new "case" for the batteries so you can rebuild the pack, they do have some "packs" on E-Bay listed under BP1600. It's always a "hit and miss" on E-Bay. The problem is that the current vendor lists the BP1600 pack as a Black & Decker part and doesn't know exactly what he is selling. There is no picture of this on the current listing which isn't good.

If both batteries are behaving the same way then this is probably a charger problem. When you insert the battery pack into the charger does the 'charging' light blink for 30 minutes (fast charge) then go steady? I noticed that one of my batteries was causing the light to come on steady immediately I inserted it into the charger. When I tried to use the battery pack I got the same problem everyone else is seeing, i.e. vacuum cleaner shuts off in less than a minute, so I conclude that when the charging light is on steady then the battery is not being charged.

If the charging light does not blink when you insert the battery (i.e. comes on steady or not at all), try removing the battery and re-inserting it into the charger.

Try a conditioning cycle on your battery packs. To do this:
* Insert the battery pack into the charger
* Before the charging light lights press the 'condition' button located just above the charging light.
* The 'conditioning' light should blink. This is a light which does not normally illuminate, and it is located below the condition button and above the charging light. The charger fan will run quieter in this mode.
* Leave the battery pack in the charger for 24 hours while this cycle is taking place.

I'm not a service technician so perhaps someone else might like to post other solutions or corrections to this one.

Usually a short battery life means bad battries that aren't holding its charge. Being new I would think it would have a year's warranty on it. Find out who is the closest warranty shop and have them fix it.

put fuse in

Hi , check battery teminals might corroded need clean the post ,unscrew clean and try to charge , if does not full the battery have problem , need to replace.