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NX200 Battery Connectivity Issues

Joshua_2002

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Hello Everyone,

I am a volunteer firefighter in Kentucky and I just recently purchased a new Kenwood NX-200 to listen to our Law Enforcement channel, which is a NEX96 conventional channel. I have an Aimtobest KNB-48L I bought new off of Amazon. The radio has been working fine for a little over a week, but today it won't come on unless I press and hold the battery down in the area of the terminals. A similar occurrence happened two months ago when I bought a new NX-300 for the Fire side. Except the battery was from IFREQTECH, and had connection issues immediately(which was also new from Amazon). But when I took it down to the station and swapped it with an IFREQTECH 48L from another NX-300, they both connected just fine and I've been able to use it with no problems ever since. Anybody experiencing something similar like this?
 

mmckenna

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Buying after market batteries is always a risk. It's not worth it to save a few bucks if you rely on your radio for your (or someone else's). safety.

But when I took it down to the station and swapped it with an IFREQTECH 48L from another NX-300, they both connected just fine and I've been able to use it with no problems ever since. Anybody experiencing something similar like this?

This suggests that there isn't an issue with the mounting slots on the radio chassis, but it's worth taking a good close look at where the battery attaches, just to make sure.
I've had a few radios come in where someone purchased the cheap-o batteries and had this issue. Only solution is to replace it with a higher quality battery.

I've found it worth the cost to either stick with Kenwood brand batteries, or at least something like Power Products. No way I'd purchase no-name batteries off Amazon.
 

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I would send it back! If you have waited too long, you probably can put some tape in the right places and get it snug and work. Just have to do some looking and get the tape in the right place. And hope the batteries in the case are better than the case fitting!

Frank
 
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