Impress Battery management system

[ffexpCP]

I will be soon deploying a fleet of about 150 APX portables across several (9+) locations, and currently have a handful of old HT750s. I have purchased the impress battery management system software. I'm starting to place the APX Impress 2 bank chargers, and connect to the networked computers via usb. Things are working relatively fine with the new impress2 chargers and talking back to the 'home' server in my office via vpn. My problem is with the HT bank chargers. I have the charger interface serial to usb adaptor, but the software won't see it. The PC's device manager identifies it properly. Any ideas? I'd like to get my entire fleet of old and new stuff to work on the same system. I will not be doing anything OTA with the software, just USB to charger. What am I missing?

I want to be done with manually testing conventical batteries with an itech analyzer. Actually, that's not the hard part. The hard part is finding all the batteries people have hidden. I can easily justify impress batteries in labor and travel time savings.

 

[ffexpCP]

Update: Motorola support states the MUC with NNTN7677 CIU adaptor is no longer supported in the BMS software.

 

[PACNWDude]

Update: Motorola support states the MUC with NNTN7677 CIU adaptor is no longer supported in the BMS software.

Glad Motorola told you that. Took me several support calls to get someone to admit to this in my case. Also supporting HT-750's to APX8000's and it does get interesting at times as a result. We also use a Cadex system, and a Motorola Solutions Inc. representative told me that "Cadex does not support the APX6000XE batteries, they left that part of the business" which is not true. Cadex still makes charging cups adapters for APX6000 and 8000 series radios, Motorola just wants you to buy their products instead (of course).