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Green light wont turn to orange on Icom BC-146 Charger

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I have an Icom BC-146 charger, and the BC-147A AC adaptor.

When I stick a dead battery on the charger the light never goes from green to orange, it just stays on green. The battery is definitely charging, I just have no idea at which rate or when to take it off...

Any ideas on what is wrong? I have tried it at my house and dorm room, with a power strip and straight into the wall. FWIW, my BC-143 charger works fine with the same outlets.

The battery I am using is a BP-210 for F40GT.

Battery, charger, AC adaptor is all OEM Icom.
 
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No - I use the BC-146 with the IC-F40 series which has the display so I can see the batt level that way but other than that I can't say there is.
 
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I have noticed that some of the aftermarket battery clips prevent the battery from fully inserting into the cup. This might prevent some of the tabs from making contact.

Bob
 
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Everything I am using right now is stock Icom AFAIK...

I cant help but think something is wrong - all of my F4S batteries charge up fine with an active red-green indicator...and that is how many years older than the F40?

I should just give Icom a call tomorrow.
 
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