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- From: deglop@donald.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Jacob DeGlopper)
- Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
- Subject: Re: BC200XLT symptoms and new BC ?
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 03:48:05 GMT
- Organization: EEAP, CWRU, Cleveland
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- In article <QfMpL3y00WA1I1SF8u@andrew.cmu.edu> "Brian J. Papa" <bp12+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
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- >I have also been having problems with my battery pack. I had one dead
- >cell, which I replaced, but the scanner still has trouble starting on
- >batteries, unless you squeeze on the power/charge input co-axial jack.
- >I assume there is a bad connection at the "switch" that connect the
- >negative terminal of ni-cads to the negative output terminal of the
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- I repaired a problem last week _exactly_ like this on a Regency R4020 from
- '88. In this case, it was fixed by replacing the wires from the battery
- pack to the charge controller board, and resoldering the DC power jack
- contacts.
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- Jacob DeGlopper, EMT-A, Wheaton (MD) Volunteer Rescue Squad
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