Looking at my KX3 I find the batteries are in series as you would expect but
thereare hidden wires. I numbered batteries from Pos end.
Plug is wired with two red wires connected as one and
hooked to the #1 batteryThe wiring order is #1,#4,#3,#2Bat #2 black wire
spliced to red wire into second holder.Second holder wired exactly in same
order as first.Output is black wire from second holder which is splitinto two
wires to the plug.
Mark WB7TLK
On Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 10:13:07 AM PST, Walter Underwood
<[email protected]> wrote:
That is just weird. All the cells should be in series all the time. If they
wanted to skip a cell, they should have put in a dummy cell.
I can believe it wouldn’t power up with NiMH cells, six of those is only 7.2 V.
I would look up the part number and get new battery holders.
wunder
K6WRU
Walter Underwood
CM87wj
http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)
> On Jan 25, 2025, at 9:45 AM, Andy Durbin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> "The other holder has all cells in series and only two wires."
>
> No, on closer inspection I found both holders are configured the same with 3
> cells in series and one isolated. Two wires of each pack can be traced to the
> battery connector but the other two (4 total) are hidden under the battery
> holders.
>
> Andy, k3wyc
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