I own a Bcd396t and use two sets of batteries, 2500 Engergizers & 2650 Duracells.
Using a GP charger, nothing fancy, after a 12-15 hr charge I normally got about 8-10 hrs on the 2 year old Energizers & 10-12 on the 8 month old Duracells, monitoring analog trunked systems & P25/Analog systems.
In my car I have to increase the volume a fair bit to hear, in my house it is generally at around 3 or 4.
Lately I have noticed that both sets of cells do not keep a charge in the 'high' zone (3.8 & up) for very long and the use time in both dropped by 50-65%.
I bought a new charger, an Energizer slow charge unit at Best Buy.
The Energizer batteries lasted about 6-8 hrs, mostly at hugh volume monitoring P25 systems.
The Duracells were different. I had it going well, albeit the numerical value dropped quickly from 4.22 to 3.67 (approx) very quickly.
After about 4 hrs of use the battery indicator lite came on.
I proceeded to try to discharge the batteries, i.e. keep it on but while the lite flashed the scanner scanned away, for another 2 hrs
I went to turn it on again this AM and the power level increased back up to 3.6m no battery indicator lite on.
My question:
Did I F up my batteries using my old charger or is there perhaps something wrong now with my radio?
Thanks in advance.
edit- I should add I had the backlight switched to squelch using the energizers & keypad push for the duracells.
Eric
Using a GP charger, nothing fancy, after a 12-15 hr charge I normally got about 8-10 hrs on the 2 year old Energizers & 10-12 on the 8 month old Duracells, monitoring analog trunked systems & P25/Analog systems.
In my car I have to increase the volume a fair bit to hear, in my house it is generally at around 3 or 4.
Lately I have noticed that both sets of cells do not keep a charge in the 'high' zone (3.8 & up) for very long and the use time in both dropped by 50-65%.
I bought a new charger, an Energizer slow charge unit at Best Buy.
The Energizer batteries lasted about 6-8 hrs, mostly at hugh volume monitoring P25 systems.
The Duracells were different. I had it going well, albeit the numerical value dropped quickly from 4.22 to 3.67 (approx) very quickly.
After about 4 hrs of use the battery indicator lite came on.
I proceeded to try to discharge the batteries, i.e. keep it on but while the lite flashed the scanner scanned away, for another 2 hrs
I went to turn it on again this AM and the power level increased back up to 3.6m no battery indicator lite on.
My question:
Did I F up my batteries using my old charger or is there perhaps something wrong now with my radio?
Thanks in advance.
edit- I should add I had the backlight switched to squelch using the energizers & keypad push for the duracells.
Eric