Impress batteries and reconditioning mode - flashing green/orange

[bmdatas]

Hello all,

I have little to no experience with batteries and I'm hoping to get some assistance with troubleshooting.

As I understand we can force recalibration/reconditioning through removing and inserting the battery into the multi-unit charger - at first the light indicator shows a steady orange showing the calibration process has started however after several minutes the lights switch to alternating green/orange meaning we need to initiate the calibration again.

This cycle of losing calibration mode keeps happening and I have attempted other charging ports on several different charging units and all seem to have the same problem - picture of the multi-unit charger for reference

There are other questions however I figure begin with the most pressing, thanks everyone.

 

[MTS2000des]

Usually that means a battery is at the end of it's service life and should be replaced. Is it RED and GREEN and not ORANGE and GREEN?

IMPRES 2 Multi-Unit Charger User Guide | Motorola Solutions

learning.motorolasolutions.com

 

[bmdatas]

A few are flashing red (unusable battery) and the rest (which is the majority unfortunately) are flashing green/orange only which tells me they still have some juice left.

 

[PACNWDude]

Do the batteries have the same serial number by chance? Had the yellow/green flash, but it was with fake counterfeit batteries that had the same serial number, purchased from Grainger. Got my employers money back and used it to explain why we stick with authentic Motorola batteries.

Serial number on all batteries found doing this yellow/green flash were 500000AE928E.

 

[PACNWDude]

I should clarify, amber/green for those that read the manual, in my case the batteries did not need "calibration" they charger was confused as the chip in each battery had the same serial number....fake batteries, and would not charge/discharge and then charge in calibrated mode.

 

[bmdatas]

Appreciate the insight, I checked the numbers on several different batteries (most batteries are now company stickered on the back) and unfortunately and thankfully they have different numbers - so safe to assume they are authentic but still the possibility they are not.

I have quite a few charging units to work from so just this moment I have inserted one battery per charger so there's no way to have multiple serial numbers just in case. Lets see how this goes but I'm doubtful...