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Do I need an intrinsically safe battery for an IS NX300 to work properly?
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Question is, do you work in a volatile environment? If yes, then you need to us the I.S. battery.
If you're a hobbyist and use it for scanning. Then no.
If you're a hobbyist and use it for scanning. Then no.
No, I don't need IS, just wanted to make sure I didn't HAVE to have the battery to make the radio work before I spend money on something. May work where I do need IS though so if I drop money on an NX5300 I'm going to get it configured for IS but not use the batteries until I need to.
Think of it like PPE. If you do go into an I.S. location, make sure your battery is the first item on your PPE list!
IDK if it's a thing on USA radios, but there is a screw on some IS NX300s that prevents the non IS battery from fitting. Just remove it if you want to use Non IS. Canadian ABP radio are also tuned so High power is 1W but that can be adjusted with software.
Looked at the listing for the one I may get, it has the screw and is from Canada. Tuning is ridiculously easy on the NX300s though so that isn't a problem
Buddy of mine got to visit a Motorola factory back in the day when they were made in the US. There was no difference between the IS and non-IS batteries except for the green dot sticker. They were all built to the same standards - just the IS ones were warranted to be IS and cost more.
Yeah, I figured that might have been the case unless the battery actually had a different shape and stuff.
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That was probably before lithium ion batteries
tvengr
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The radio itself must be intrinsically safe also if you work in an explosive environment. You don't want anything such as a spark from a PTT switch exposed to the air where it could cause an explosion when dealing with events like gas leaks.
the Canadian Moto radios had a L shaped hole in the battery in the middleish area. The radios had a matching L shape cast into the radio so you couldn't mix em up. MTX1550 and 4550 were the models. the new XPR7550IS looks like a hybrid between a XPR6000 and 7000. completely different shape to the no IS versions. It's cool looking radio for collectors, but batteries are $200 Canadian easy.
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