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XTS2500 Low batt. Beep.

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Just got a used 2500 in mint shape with 2 batt. and a charger. After one hour of receive i get the triple- low battery beep and icon. So I purchased 1 new battery and a new charger- still get the beep.
The radio will work for 2 days on receive, but give the low batt. beep after one hour on all 3 batteries, the beep is every few minutes, and not sure about a cure. Any ideas??
 

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XTS2500 low battery chirp

If you have the CPS,Go to radio configuration/radiowide/alert tones. You will see a low battery box,un-check "TX chirp. I stopped my XTS2500 the same way.
Bill
 

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If someone messed with the low-battery setup they might very well have messed with other, more important, settings on the radio. I'd send it to a Motorola shop for a complete alignment to make certain the thing is working properly.
 

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Early units of the "A" model 2500 had an issue with the low battery function coming on early. I don't recall if there was a FW fix for this.
 

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the softeware shows normal, not early warning, still trying to figure out channel assignments on software, to program it.
 

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Early versions of the T-Band (circa 2005) model had an design flaw. Those radios "should" have been destroyed. The problem is not the battery or the alert, what is actually happening is there is a mismatch in the antenna system which causes the SWR to spike. That spike then draws more current off the battery creating the low battery condition. If you have a T-Band that is your cause. There is no software fix for this, it is a hardware issue.
 

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He did NOT do any transmitting!

Early versions of the T-Band (circa 2005) model had an design flaw. Those radios "should" have been destroyed. The problem is not the battery or the alert, what is actually happening is there is a mismatch in the antenna system which causes the SWR to spike. That spike then draws more current off the battery creating the low battery condition. If you have a T-Band that is your cause. There is no software fix for this, it is a hardware issue.

The antenna mismatch problem was prevalent in many VHF models causing very poor receive performance.

Maybe someone did screw around with the low battery settings...... you can check this per the manual with a variable power supply starting at 7.5 volts and slowly lowering the voltage to the 'low battery' point.
 

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My buddys xts2500 had the same problem when he had a non impress battery on it. As soon as we put an impress on it it fixed the problem.
 

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Had to get software to reprogram it, The r16 software removed the alerts and all was fine, and with real FPP in the radio all works well still. Also change the time it samples when scanning as to not be so annoying.
Thanks to all for your help.
 
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