Racal/Thales 25 Batteries and accessories

Does anyone know any source for accessories for the Racal/Thales 25 radios? They are now going quite cheaply on eBay, but there seem to be zero suppliers of accessories for them now, either on eBay or elsewhere. Looking in particular for the AA battery clam shells, or batteries and chargers.

Thanks!

The few people I know that use them, have sent the battery packs to vendors who put new cells in them. They of course, already have the chargers.
As for accessories, they are sometimes found overseas, so searching auction sites in Canada, UK and Australia sometimes provides chargers and microphones.

That's why they are selling so cheaply, it's so hard to find any batteries for them.They're pretty much useless for anything other than parts if you don't have the clam shell or Li-Ion packs.Thales killed off all support and parts for them.The accessories are rare and hard to find.Some people still think they are sitting on a goldmine with these radios and want hundreds of dollars for them without being able to even verify if they work!

I see the chargers quite often on Feebay.Those are actually the easiest thing to find.People are dumping them because their batteries no longer hold a charge and getting a new battery from the OEM that supplied them to Thales,or a refurb, is about $160 each if you can get them at all.Some get lucky with buying the used ones if they still have decent life in them.

In the rare case that you find a AA clamshell pack it will probably run you about the same amount or more and the clamshell with alkalines can't supply enough power to operate the radio at the full 5 Watts if you need to transmit.It's limited to 2W max.

Someone on the Thales "yahoo's" group apparently has been successful at hack sawing open the Li-Ion packs and replacing the cells with some new ones and getting them to charge.There was also someone selling the new OEM supplied batteries for around $160,but that place has had issues with scammers so beware.

I have an "original" clip on style audio side connector and original clip on lapel mic that I'm looking to get rid of soon.I may also just get rid of this 503 radio all together along with the AA clamshell and screw on audio side connector,belt clip, box,manual and new wideband antenna. I haven't been all that impressed with these so far,but I haven't decided yet on what I want to do.Still mulling it over.

Did a quick Google search for you, and came up with a link to someone selling batteries:
Global Technology Systems - Two Way Radios - GTS

Before you cut it open, I read this on Honeywell Batteries website and it worked for me on this radio.
Program the weather into the radio, leave the radio on and volume up overnight, and completely discharge the battery.
Charge it up and do it again.
Try this 5 times before you give up on the battery.
Believe it or not, it worked for me when I had this radio. I've never really have tried it with other radios because Moto batteries are not a rare bird like this one is.

Check with Batteries plus. They have rebuilt some in the past.

We got our batteries directly form Racal/Thales.

GTS makes very good batteries. I buy them exclusively for the Harris XG series radios.

Thales discontinued all T25 stuff about a year ago.
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cmdrwill said:

We got our batteries directly form Racal/Thales.

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GTS is the only seller of new T-25 batteries. Last 6 I got last year wear $120.00 each

Thanks for all the replies - good to have the GTS source at least even though expensive. I might just get adventurous and look into the battery rebuild trick...