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Recently I purchased a used XTS3000/2 VHF, which came with a used OEM PMNN4093A Impres NiMH battery. The battery *appears* to charge fine, and *appears* to holds the charge.

Yet...after about an hour of radio use of receive only, I start getting the low battery chirp, and the flashing battery indication on the screen, despite the battery level on the radio screen still showing a full charge. Obviously there's some kind of bad indication of some flavor going on one way or the other.

Any ideas? Firmware issue with the radio and Impres batteries? Thanks in advance.
 
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Worth a shot. If that doesn't fix it, then you'll know you need to start troubleshooting further.
 
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Hopefully you are charging the battery on an Impres charger. You need to insert the battery into the Impres battery data reader, # NNTN7392A to get the 411 on the battery. Anything else is just speculation. If you live in Palm Beach County Florida come on over, & I'll gladly do it for you. Your location says you're on the road.
 
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N4KVE said:
Hopefully you are charging the battery on an Impres charger. You need to insert the battery into the Impres battery data reader, # NNTN7392A to get the 411 on the battery. Anything else is just speculation. If you live in Palm Beach County Florida come on over, & I'll gladly do it for you. Your location says you're on the road.
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Currently in New York. I am indeed using an Impress charger. The tape trick didn't work unfortunately.

Here's the battery:
 

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That's getting close to being a 4 year-old battery so it might be on its way out but without putting it into the aforementioned IMPRES battery data reader, your only indication is what you're already observing. Don't happen to have another battery do you?
 
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