I had a battery with this problem and trimmed down some little rubber bumpers on the back of the battery and now it latches fine.
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XG-100P Battery Life
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Is that one of your batteries from CutRate Inc? None of my Harris batteries have rubber plugs that protrude at all.
It's the XG-100P that's the problem. Battery fitment is a well known issue with these. Those batteries were originally made for the Com-Net Ericsson/M/A-Com 700P/Pi radios. The same battery design was used for the later M/A-Com/TYCO/HARRIS P7100/5100 and P7200/5200 radios as well and they fit those radios without these issues that the XG-100P has. HARRIS adopted the same battery style, for some reason, for their own XG-100P radio (before acquiring the beforehand mentioned companies public safety radio division) but apparently didn't design the frame properly enough to fit these style batteries without fitment issues.
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All those HARRIS batteries have 3 rubber, circular pads on them.
Are these the bumpers?
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Did you total remove them like the bottom middle?
It revolves mostly around the metal tabs on the bottom of the radio. As mentioned above, the QC on these radios was just not there, so they varied wildly from radio to radio on the battery fitment. If the tabs are off, the batteries can get stuck or won't latch properly. We would have to bend (more like "tweak") them in or out to "calibrate" them to fit the various batteries that we use. Just be VERY careful when tweaking them as they do not bend very far at all before they break off. Out of the 100's that I tweaked, I only broke two. It takes very little movement to notice an improvement. Our reason for tweaking was due to the batteries getting stuck, which would occur when a user dropped their radio, bending the tabs. We had a method to remove stuck batteries that was non-destructive, but end-users would typically destroy the batteries, trying to remove them.
That's actually an alignment hole for the circular, metal, protrusion on the radio frame.
but you had good luck removing some of the bat bumpers?
Is there one of these VC4000 chargers that DOES fit an XG100P in it like the picture shows? Anybody know the proper model number?
If the charger can accept both the 100P and 200P radios that part number is XL-CH4W (14035-4100-01) Charger,Vehicular,VC4000
Charger part numbers from New London Tech web page
You could call them and see if they can provide a part number for the 100P chargerand let us know.
another pix
VC4000 Unity Charger - Stream Wireless
Mount in a vehicle or use on a desk. Charges Li-Polymer and Li-Ion batteries in 4 hours or less. Provides microprocessor-controlled charging for long battery life and maximum battery performance. Charge batteries with or without the radio and speaker mic attached. Power adapter kit sold...
www.streamwebservice.com
Does the XL200P have the same chassis (or at least chassis shape) as the XG100P? If not I don't know if the XL-CH4W will work. Did you see the 12082-0318-01? I believe that may be the one. I've submitted an inquiry.
Looks as if the 12082 model is the correct version of the VC-4000 for the 100P.
I bought a couple of "older" new in the box model VC4000s CH-017231-002 Rev-B to use as 12v input battery-only chargers in the car. These are tri-chemistry and accept the batteries from the 100P with four contacts including LiIons with the extra guide fins. The -001 is for batteries with 5 contacts.
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