Hello Scobie, Yes, the JR charger for the RADIO (only) is REVERSED.
If you pluged in a charger from a different brand (with reversed polarity) into the radio it will short out the fuse in the TX. You will have to replace the fuse. Regards, Cameron Ninham --- Scobie Puchtler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Y'all know I'm no electronics whiz, so I'd > appreciate a little advice if any > is necessary: > > I just charged both of my JR TX's for several hours > using two wall chargers. > One charger was stock JR, the other one I THOUGHT > was my other stock JR wall > charger..... but I now see that it was actually a > Hitec wall charger. The > radio that was on the Hitec charger had zilch, > wouldn't come on, LCD display > didn't even flash for a second. Seemed very weird at > first, but once I > realized it had been on the wrong charger, things > started to make more > sense. > > I've now got the uncharged (mis-charged?) radio > charging on the JR charger, > as was the original intent. > > I seem to remember from my days of wiring various > other chargers that the > wall charger polarity on a Hitec and JR chargers > might be opposite. > > Any reason to expect that I've done any damage to > the battery? Anything I > should be doing or checking? > > I already put the 'correctly charged' battery in the > TX that was on the > Hitec charger and everything works fine. > > Thanks in advance for any reassurances (or horrors > if warranted) :-) > > > Lift, > Scobie in Seattle > > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane > News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that > subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in > text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent > from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are > generally NOT in text format > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
