I recently bought this power reclining chair:
In the transformer that plugs into the wall is a compartment for two 9 volt batteries. What would they be for? It’s not mentioned in the setup instructions. I called the store and they have no idea. The “features” on the web page mention a USB port which I don’t seem to have but two little 9 volt batteries wouldn’t give any significant power for that anyway.
There are reclining chairs that use a battery pack but that is a large 24 volt battery.
If you unplug the chair, but have the batteries in, will it work? Maybe it’s a back-up for a power failure.
It is – so the chair can lift while the power is out.
Could they be for memory backup - so you can set up differant positions and not lost them if you disconnect it from the supply and move the chair to another spot?
Wish my recliner had that feature. We had an outage last week, just a couple of weeks after knee surgery. Wasn’t easy climbing out of that thing.
Ours are the same way. Like yours there were no specific instructions about the 9v battery matter so we have concluded they’re in the event of a power failure. I’ve actually had that happen and of course the batteries were dead on my side. Getting out of an elevated recliner in the dark even for a perfectly healthy 68 year old was a bit of a challenge.
Sometimes the batteries in your TV remote die, and you don’t want to walk all the way across room to get a fresh pair.
I assume you’re joking, I had the same thought from the thread title. But just in case, when was the last time a remote took 9v’s? I’m now legitimately curious if they ever took 9v, even back in the long ago times…
My power-recliner sofa has the same sort of battery holders. I was told that this was so you could retract the footrest (and raise the back) if the power went out. They’re just standard little 9-volt batteries, not a lot of energy available; they’re really intended for a single use, just to get the sofa back to its most usable/transportable configuration and only while nobody is sitting on it.
In spite of what your link says, I’d be very surprised if two little 9-volt batteries can muster enough energy to raise a 400-pound person, plus a 50-pound recliner, plus deal with all of the friction in the machinery along the way. I suspect the batteries are actually only for lowering a chair that’s already been raised.
Here for example is a replacement recliner power supply with a compartment that holds a couple of 9V batteries; it refers to battery compartment as a “slot for emergency lowering batteries.”
That seems most likely. I don’t have any 9 volters around or I would try it. I did notice that if I unplug the power supply the light stays on. I hit the retract button and with no 120 volt power and NO battery it bumped a little bit just from the capacitor in the power supply.
As I mentioned in the OP there are numerous chairs with full battery backup. They use a battery the size of a motorcycle battery.
If you have to ask, the answer is too indecent for your delicate sensibilities to handle.
j/k
This is why I have our power recliner chairs on a UPS. The main difficulty was finding a model of UPS that didn’t screech at you to alert you to the fact that sudden absence of lights and teevee and whatnot had been caused by a power failure.
I asked about a recliner, not a vib**tor!
So, to hijack my own thread this reminds me of an incident at work decades ago. We’re sitting around the break table and someone pointed out a photo of an ancient “therapeutic” vibrator that predated electricity. It had a hand crank. No, really. One guy launched into a pseudo discussion of the ins and outs of this model and described a two handed version. About this time the only female on the crew (who was fairly hardened to this type of chatter anyway) stood up and threw a folding chair at the guy.