You should have greater than 10.0 volts after a full charge.... I would check the batteries individually....you may have one or more bad batteries
Sent from my iPad On Jan 27, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Mike Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good afternoon all, I installed the KXBC3 in my KX3 last night and it had no > error messages or problems.....up until now. > Here is what I did and what is happening. > 1. Batteries that are installed are Ansmann 2850 MaH NiMH brand new min > charge on them if any. > 2. Put time on KX3 for 16 hours of charge time and left the Astron power > supply for full 16 hours. > 3. In the morning after charge time tried to turn KX3 on with just battery > power. It would not and found out needed to lower min voltage from 10v to > 8.5v. > 4. After doing this the rig came on and was fine on battery power. > 5. Took rig to the park this morning and it failed to start again. Double > checked at home to make sure the new min volt setting saved and it did. I > then moved the min > setting to the lowest value which was 8.2 volts. > 6. On the display I am getting the following now PS. 13.6 volts (not sure way > that as voltage on my Fluke meter at the Jack before it goes into the KX3 > reads 13.8v) > BT is reading 8.8v but is is fluctuating from 8.1v to 8.8v at times. > Now even with an internal battery reading of 8.8 or a little less the rig > should still turn on?? The only other thing I can think if is the 2850 MaH > batteries need more than 16 hours of charge time? > Mike > VE3WDM > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
