Getting a charge
Jun. 2nd, 2006 12:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
murakoziThe old Maha drop-in charger I have for my HT has become somewhat unreliable. Basically, five or ten minutes after I drop a battery pack into it it bleats and indicates that it's done charging. I know there's no way any of the battery packs I have could charge that fast.
This leaves me with only 2 options for charging the Icom's battery packs - the wall charger that came with the HT or the 12v charger for the car. I can't find the wall charger. The car charger, like the wall charger, isn't 'smart' so it'll happily overcharge batteries if left hooked up too long. The radio itself doesn't indicate whether the battery is full so using the car or wall chargers is a guessing game.
Do any of the ham radio folk out there have any suggestions for a reliable drop-in charger for the assorted battery packs used by an Icom T7H? I'm not too keen on another Maha unit since the first one I had decided to smoke shortly after I got it and the replacement they sent is having issues. Basically, I need something that'll handle the original NiCad pack as well as some NiMh ones I've gotten since.
This leaves me with only 2 options for charging the Icom's battery packs - the wall charger that came with the HT or the 12v charger for the car. I can't find the wall charger. The car charger, like the wall charger, isn't 'smart' so it'll happily overcharge batteries if left hooked up too long. The radio itself doesn't indicate whether the battery is full so using the car or wall chargers is a guessing game.
Do any of the ham radio folk out there have any suggestions for a reliable drop-in charger for the assorted battery packs used by an Icom T7H? I'm not too keen on another Maha unit since the first one I had decided to smoke shortly after I got it and the replacement they sent is having issues. Basically, I need something that'll handle the original NiCad pack as well as some NiMh ones I've gotten since.