[HomeBrew] I am a Happy/FRUGAL Ham, soooo....

[Bry Carling]

Very good deal, David - and an interesting story. Thank you!

Also - you might find that in the long run it could be even more frugal to go with 
Lithiul Ion batteries which run much longer than NiCads and may well live longer too for all I 
know.

I am a huge fan of LiOns...

Bry

On 29 Nov 2012 at 12:21, David wrote:

Date sent:      	Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:21:49 -0800

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> I Am A Happy/Frugal Ham...
> November 29, 2012
> 
> Recently I picked up my old 2M Kenwood TH-22AT HT and it would not
> take
> but a slight charge. Well, it has had about 14-20 years of
> intermittent
> use!
> 
> Actually, I had an extra duty battery pack for it, too, which was
> completely dead.
> 
> I popped the packs open to see what I could do...
> --I identified the batteries (size-wise). I think one pack had 5ea.
> 2/3's
> "A" size and the other had 5ea. 4/5th's "A" size.
> 
> I found a place online which has the batteries in small qty's at a
> reasonable price. I emailed asking if I could order by phone w/ my
> credit
> card. They gave me a phone number. The 10 NiCad Batts were about $3
> each.
> So, that's how I got the new batts ...by FC Mail for about $4
> postage.
> 
> Batts were about $3 each.
> 
> Cautions:
> 1. This is a work of love and is not "easy", but a higher-level DIY
> Ham
> should be able to figger it out and succeed with the transplant
> (also
> called a "Re-Pop" of the pack (re-populating))
> 
> 2. Order the Batts with "tabs" spot-welded onto them,... soldering
> directly to the cells will shorten their life dramatically!
> 
> 3. I don't know if this is important, but... I could have had
> higher
> mA hour batts in NiM Hydride or perhaps Lithium, but stayed with the
> NiCad
> because of the original and 'dumb' Kenwood wall-wart charger (that's
> not a
> slam on Kenwood).
> 
> You may find other companies, but this is the one I used:
> BatteriesInAFlash.com in Nevada
> Email = sales at batteriesinaflash.com
> BIAF Sales = 702-248-2423
> 
> Happy Frugalling ! !
> 
> -- 
> David B.
> W7DBH, Mobile in Oregon, etc.
> 
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