[Uniden] BC-3000 Battery question

[Richard Reynolds]

www.digikey.com will sell you the batteries singly for a good price if you
can attach them to the scanner yourself its nice and cheap, if not your
local "renewer" should be able to attach them w/o problems if not find a
better electronics store

----- Original Message -----
From: "Techno" <techno@actcom.co.il>
To: <uniden@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 7:01 AM
Subject: [Uniden] BC-3000 Battery question


> OK, here's my 2 cents to activity...
> All my three batteries for my BC-3000 have gone kaput.
> My local battery renewer doesn't seem to have cells (1/2A? 2/3A) to renew
> the pack.
> There doesn't seem to be a local uniden importer and anyway, that damn
> proprietry battery seems to be a serious limitation and expensive too!
> What I'm looking for is solutions for battery renewal, preferably without
> importing new units at uniden's outrageous prices ($50 each?). Here's a
> summary of possible solutions:
>
> 1. Everyone's been complaining about why the BC-3000 doesn't use standard
> AA cells like other popular scanners. Has anyone come out by now with a
> replacement battery case with room for 5 AA's? Physically it can be done,
> but the new case must extent a bit more at the bottom end of the scanner.
I
> thought about improvising this with an old battery case but the problem is
> that the case is made of two pieces, and the slide-in tracks are on one
> part and the latching tounge (which prevents the battery from falling off)
> on the other...
> I think I can still do it but of course would prefer to by a readymade
> 10-$20 plastic thingie...
>
> 2. I have found a cheap, quick and dirty solution by taking a readily
> available plastic 6AA-cell battery housing (of the kind used to create a
9V
> battery from 6 AA cells) and connecting it to the two spring tabs in the
> battery compartment (even without soldering, just sticking the wires
> beneath the tabs). The pack is then secured in the battery's space with a
> few think run\beer bands...
> Not very elegant solution (because the pack isn't as sleek as an original
> battery as well as protrudes a bit from the back) but it's extremely easy
> to implement as well as gives me more than 3 times the usage than a
> standard 600mA pack (1800maH cells plus the fact that I'm using 6 cells
> instead of 5 gives me additional time). The radio shouldn't mind using 6
> cells because when charging it actually operates at close to 12V (see the
> schematics)!
> I can still put the radio on my hip, even with the pack protruding) and
can
> even quick charge as I have access to the battery terminals, as opposed to
> the 14 hour standard pack charge time. Now if I only could get a AA cell
> battery pack I'd be even more happy...
>
> 3. Anyone have an international shipping source for cheap high capacity
> e.g. NiMh batteries (or at least battery pack internals replacements, I
can
> do the surgery myself)?
>
> 4. Any other good ideas?
>
> Now that really pushed traffic on this list 100%...:-)
>
> cheers!
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