About two-three years ago,, I bought the 3-pack of the T200 handhelds just for goofing around with the kids. I just found them and given our self-isolating orders, I brought them out of storage.
So, I charged-up the batteries that came with the radios, kids went for a walk around the block. After about 20 minutes, we started getting low battery indicators on the two radios we were using.
So, I thought maybe the 3.6v NiMH battery packs that came with the radios may have gone south, so I tried using three freshly-charged Enloop AAs. I know the manual says to use alkaline batteries, but the 3 Enloops should be giving me 3.6v on a fresh charge anyhow, just like the battery pack that came with the radios.
Anyway, still getting the same thing. Battery seems to go dead fast.
But, I noticed something. If I power-cycle the radio, the low battery charge seems to go away for the same period of time it took to "discharge" the first time.
Anyway, I'm assuming that this model is one of the 0.5w radios, so I'm just wondering what's going on. Is it looking for 4.5v? Is there some weird sub menu that I'm mssing? Something else going on?
So, I charged-up the batteries that came with the radios, kids went for a walk around the block. After about 20 minutes, we started getting low battery indicators on the two radios we were using.
So, I thought maybe the 3.6v NiMH battery packs that came with the radios may have gone south, so I tried using three freshly-charged Enloop AAs. I know the manual says to use alkaline batteries, but the 3 Enloops should be giving me 3.6v on a fresh charge anyhow, just like the battery pack that came with the radios.
Anyway, still getting the same thing. Battery seems to go dead fast.
But, I noticed something. If I power-cycle the radio, the low battery charge seems to go away for the same period of time it took to "discharge" the first time.
Anyway, I'm assuming that this model is one of the 0.5w radios, so I'm just wondering what's going on. Is it looking for 4.5v? Is there some weird sub menu that I'm mssing? Something else going on?