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GP300 Charger

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2wayfreq

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I want to use a few of these GP300s as casual hiking radios but I need new batteries. There are Ni-MH batteries online. I have an older charger but I don't know if the chargers from 20 years ago supported Ni-MH. Trying to figure out which Motorola Charger Model# is NI-CAD only and which revised model supports Ni-MH Chemistry?

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I don't know, I flushed all my old Motorola binders years ago.

If you get in a jam, there are companies that still make chargers that will support these radios, with NiMH or NiCad batteries:
 

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There are a few mods for the GP300 chargers that handle the NiMh batteries.

Which charger do you have?
 

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I have the HTN-9042A intellicharger. No Manufacture date stamp. Some sites spec it as both NiCad and NiMh. Others say just NiCad.
 

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The intellicharger rapid rate series was supposed to adjust the charging based on the chemistry of the radio inserted in the charger. In short, it should be able to handle both your NiCad or NiMH batteries.

The slow rate chargers were the ones that handled NiCad only as I recall.
 
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