396T V3 - no longer takes DC power?

[SCPD]

Has anyone experienced this?? I was scanning a P25 system via computer control and audio logging - and I plugged my DC power adapter in to keep it fully charged. After several hours, I looked at the scanner and the screen is blank.

I powered on the scanner only to find the battery drained. (It read 3.50v.) (The dc plug was in the scanner!) The adapter was plugged in. I unplugged everything and tried several ways to get it to acknowledge power, but it wouldn't.

Anyone else have this problem????

PS. The previous day I was just scanning a system in the same manner - with DC power and no problems. It wasn't a P25 system however!

 

[UPMan]

I would guess that the adapter is not functioning...but it could also be:

* AC Outlet dead
* Broken Scanner

 

[Jay911]

If you're using the AC adapter I have no suggestion, but like UPman said, it's likely that it's coincidental. When I took my 996 out of my car to apply the v3 upgrade to it, it refused to power on when put back in the car. It took me half an hour to figure out that in the process of either disconnecting or reconnecting it, the 2A fuse in the cigarette lighter cable had blown.

 

[SCPD]

I'll fool around with it more tonight. I couldn't try a lot since I was leaving for work. I don't understand why this would suddenly fail. It's worked fine for well over a year.

 

[mdulrich]

I don't understand why this would suddenly fail. It's worked fine for well over a year.

Most things work fine right up until they fail. :wink::lol::lol:

Mike

 

[Markscan]

Is Your battery switch set to Nickel metal hydride or Alkaline?

 

[SCPD]

Is Your battery switch set to Nickel metal hydride or Alkaline?

Always been set to NiMh. I tried flicking it over and back to NiMh but no luck.

 

[SCPD]

I would guess that the adapter is not functioning...but it could also be:

* AC Outlet dead
* Broken Scanner

Whew! Thankfully it's working now.

I moved it to a different AC outlet and it's charging once again. The odd thing is that my lamp and laptop are plugged into the same strip as the scanner was... and they work just fine. Something strange happening here...

I'm going to run the scanner power from a different outlet from now on.

 

[torontokris]

Glad to hear you got it working... id be carefull of that outlet.
Last thing you want to do is ruin a $500 scanner plugging it into a bad outlet

 

[slicerwizard]

I moved it to a different AC outlet and it's charging once again. The odd thing is that my lamp and laptop are plugged into the same strip as the scanner was... and they work just fine. Something strange happening here...

The AC adapter just wasn't making good contact with the outlet.

id be carefull of that outlet. Last thing you want to do is ruin a $500 scanner plugging it into a bad outlet

Oh please - you can't damage a scanner by plugging it in to a "bad" outlet.

 

[SCPD]

Glad to hear you got it working... id be carefull of that outlet.
Last thing you want to do is ruin a $500 scanner plugging it into a bad outlet

Yeah I tossed the power strip. It was probably 10-15 years old. The last port was working fine with other adapters, so I don't understand exactly what happened. I'm plugging directly into the wall now and it seems fine so far.