[ICOM] charging HT packs with BC-119

[Gary Fiber]

The pack might be real dead. Either connect it to your T7 overnight with 
the wall recharger or allow it to sit in the BC-119 for a few hours. The 
BC-119 does trickle charge too and should fire off if the battery comes up 
from being so flat.  You might want to be around while waiting for the 
battery to come up. When those batteries are real flat they need to have a 
little charge put into them before they will take a charge it seems. If the 
red light does not go orange in a while then I would thing that battery is bad.

Same thing used to be with car batteries. I used to jump a dead car battery 
with a good one for a few seconds to get a little charge into it before 
using the rapid charger. otherwise the rapid charger would not start 
recharging the battery.

Anyway thats been my experience.

Gary K8IZ


>Hi gang I'm trying to charge a T7H battery pack in my BC-119 and since I
>have no idea where my instructions are at I have to ask here.
>
>I put the battery pack in the charger at the light on top turns red is that
>normal?
>When I have charged packs in there before it always turns orange.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>73-Brian
>KA5BKG

Gary Fiber K8IZ
GROL PG-19-6691
Washington State Resident