[Scan-DC] BC396 Battery Life

[oldsdoug at hotmail.com]

All,

I'd be interested to hear "reports from the field" re battery life on the Uniden BC396 - mine only seems to last about an hour (no more than two) when running on batteries, even when starting with supposedly a full charge.  Granted, I do have it set so that the backlight comes on whenever it receives a transmission, and haven't tried it without this setting, but it also seems to take a long time to fully recharge - like 24 hours.  It's done this since it was new (not sure how long I've had it now, I guess more than 6 months but less than a year).

I wondered when it was new if the batteries that came with it were old or no good or something... the guy at Scannermaster did offer to replace them but I never followed up on it as it seemed to start working better after a couple of charges.  I'm going to try to pick up another set this weekend... I think they are lithium, but not sure.

Regards,

Doug

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