XTS3000 Battery Issue

[katt02]

Hi all,

I have had my xts3000 for some time now and it has worked pretty good until recently a problem occurred. For the past month or so when the radio reaches low battery, and type of transmission does not work correctly. The radio says its transmitting, however I have determined that the power has been cut to milliwatts. I can hold the radio real close to another radio and get a very low receive rssi, and I cannot hit a repeater that is 1/4 mile away. This only happens when the battery level is low, and I am not sure how to correct this. I have a fairly new battery with a date code in 2019. Is this some setting in CPS that I need to change to prevent the radio from cutting the power, or is there something(or worse case nothing) else that I can do?

Thanks, Katt

 

[Ant9270]

The proof is in the pudding. Your battery doesn’t have enough “juice” to push out 4/5 watts of power. Just throw it on the charger.

 

[katt02]

I thought that too, but it must be really bad because i have certain channels set to 1 watt, so its not needing the full 5 watts of power.

 

[Ant9270]

I thought that too, but it must be really bad because i have certain channels set to 1 watt, so its not needing the full 5 watts of power.

Let me not be so curt. Most LIKELY it is the fact the battery doesn’t have enough “juice” to push out the 4/5 watts of power. It could be something more sinister, but if you’re saying it’s working without issue on a full charge.. I would suspect it’s the battery.

 

[Project25_MASTR]

Typically you are lucky to get 3 years of continuous service out of those batteries. Good think you can still buy them new from Motorola. NNTN4435 is the PN.