Re: [Elecraft] KX-3 won't turn on with batteries

2021-09-23 Thread Keith Onishi
While your KX3 with the Ni-MH batteries installed is ON with an external power supply, tap DISP and rotate the OFS/VFO B nobl to find BT voltage. This lets you know the battery voltage. My KX3 with fully charged Ni-MH batteries shows “BT 10.7V”. It should be more than 8V with new Ni-MH

Re: [Elecraft] KX-3 won't turn on with batteries

2021-09-23 Thread Geoffrey Feldman
Send a picture of the batteries installed. With regard to the charging the Eneloop's, they come fully charged and thus setting up to charge them might deliver an error. One other possibility, what is the minimum operating voltage (Bat min) in the menu is set to? Try something like 9v.

Re: [Elecraft] KX-3 won't turn on with batteries

2021-09-23 Thread QRP5W
Do you measure voltage at the battery connector? 72 Howard Kraus, K2UD -From: ncela...@scicable.com To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Cc: Sent: Thursday September 23 2021 5:25:40PM Subject: [Elecraft] KX-3 won't turn on with batteries I got my new

Re: [Elecraft] KX-3 won't turn on with batteries

2021-09-23 Thread Rich Lim via Elecraft
Following closely I am in exactly same situation. Even tried new alkaline batteries which supposedly can be used and no power up.RichKQ9L Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, September 23, 2021, 4:25 PM, ncela...@scicable.com wrote: I got my new factory built KX-3 last week. I just

[Elecraft] KX-3 won't turn on with batteries

2021-09-23 Thread ncelarry
I got my new factory built KX-3 last week. I just installed new eneloop pro NI-MH batteries and the radio will not turn on using the batteries. Using a power supply I changed the charger settings per the manual, when I try to close out of the menu I get a batt err message. Yes the charger was