APX8000 make intrinsically safe ?

[Sonic1131]

If an APX8000 is currently NOT intrinsically safe,,,,,, can it be converted to intrinsically safe ?

I understand the battery must be correct also.
But what if anything can make up for the NON Intrinsically safe ? Only new ? made from Motorola ?

Also, what about the lapel mic ? Specific model only ?

 

[mikewazowski]

Buy the correct radio from Motorola.

An intrinsically safe radio implies it will be used in a hazardous environment. This implies that there will be some risk, possibly life altering risk, in entering that environment. Do you really want to trust your life using a radio that didn’t start out it’s life as intrinsically safe?

 

[ElroyJetson]

ONLY the factory can certify the radio as being intrinsically safe. You could use every correct part and procedure, (not that I actually think there is ANY difference at all) but you are not able to certify it as being IS, so it is not IS.

An IS battery is different, in that it is limited on how much current it can deliver. (Because sparks are very bad in explosive atmospheres.) But the radio itself? I know of literally no physical difference at all other than the IS rating decals applied to them.

 

[MTS2000des]

and any IS rated device only retains it's rating if it's serviced in a UL approved IS facility and PM'ed yearly to including inspecting all seals, housing and doing a pressure test.
any second hand radio sporting an IS label is suspect unless it's from an authorized IS shop with all records showing PM history