-=> On 09-08-97  15:49, Jeff Kincaid said to Ivy Iverson,<=-
-=>"About HT90 charger...,"<=-
 
Hi, Jeff;
 
 II>You should have recveived it by now, as it was Snailed last Monday or
 II>Tuesday.
 JK> Yup.  It got here in only two days, can you believe that?
 
Heh heh... FidoNet was a lot faster than the Snail this time... you
posted your msg on 9/8 and it arrived the morning of 9/22!  I guess
Fido must have gotten constipated again.   :-/
 
 II> ... I hope
 II>you can find service literature on it, since both resistors were so
 II>cooked that the value could not be determined either with an ohmmeter
 II>or by reading the color code.
 
 JK> I wondered about that, since I was expecting to get all the parts. 
 JK> But I guess if they were that cooked, there's no point in complaining. 
 
I am terrably sorry about that.  I discovered, however, why it cooked:
BOTH of the battery packs are shorted!  One is a dead short and the other
only has about 1 volt after being charged for about 15 minutes at 600 MA!
And I was only trying to charge one, not both at once.  I can't understand
why the fuse didn't blow!  Oh well, back to the drawing board, I guess.
:-[
 
 JK> I do wish you'd have packed it better though.  A couple inches of
 JK> packing material on each side is standard, and might have kept the
 JK> mounting post (where the screw goes to hold it together) from breaking
 JK> when they dropped the box.
 
I'm very sorry about that, too.  The only boxes I have are many times
the size of the charger, so I had to make one, (as you could tell),
and I am (obviously) not an expert packer.  I did pack it as solid as I
could with popcorn, and thought that it would travel ok that way.  I am
very sorry that it didn't.
 
 JK> It looks like I'm going to have to buy the
 JK> manuals from Motorola (expen$ive), since I'm not having any luck
 JK> finding them elsewhere.
 
If you can't find them here, you might try to CLASSIFIED echo.
 
 JK> It's amazing how much it costs to get an
 JK> inexpensive radio on the air!
 
I know what you mean about getting an inexpensive radio on the air.  I was
really lucky with the HF that I got from John Jewkes.  All it needed was a
little alignment and an antenna and it was on the air.  The 440 HT,
however... when I feed it 12 V through the charging jack I added it seems
to work ok, though I still haven't succeeded in getting crystals for the
local repeaters for it.  But when I put one of the battery packs on...
zilch.  Oh well, live and learn, I guess.   :-<
 
73 DE KB9QPM
   Ivy
 
 
 
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