[Yaesu] Yaesu Digest, Vol 105, Issue 1

Thu Jan 3 12:52:34 EST 2013

Those 810's are good units, I have one of those also.  The VAC-10B is ok, 
but I found that the ones I tried would usually get the battery hot before 
switching to full charged, it might have been overcharging them slightly. 
Other than that they worked fine.

I don't think Yaesu went cheap, I think the manufacturer did.  Yaesu doesn't 
make them anymore from what I can tell, the circuit boards in the chargers 
have different maker marks now.  So they possibly outsourced them.  Probably 
also the reason counterfeit versions are on ebay now.

73,

Scott KBØNLY

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From: k2cb at comcast.net
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 11:30 AM
To: yaesu at mailman.qth.net ; kd7jyk at earthlink.net
Subject: Re: [Yaesu] Yaesu Digest, Vol 105, Issue 1

Ken (and the other group members),

If you are looking for chargers for the FT-60,VX-250/277, etc..  series 
radios,  I have for sale brand new Vertex (Yaesu) VAC-810B chargers, which 
are the exact same unit as the VAC-370B, but labeled with the land-mobile 
division part number (810 vs. the 370). Same exact PA-2 3B wall wart and 
drop in cradle . $48 shipped via USPS. (They are sealed new old stock units, 
so they may have been built before Yaesu went cheap).

I also have the VAC-10B desktop chargers, which nicely display the radio at 
a slight angle when docked, also brand new, shipped for $33.

Eric

K2CB

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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 19:44:36 -0800
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A couple weeks ago I ordered a Yaesu FT-60 and desktop charger VAC-370.

The radio is fine.

The charger, however was an electrically malfunctioning and RFI generating
piece of garbage.

A call to Yaesu resulted in a response to the effect of "that's really
really bad, something is wrong with that charger, it's obviously defective".

I returned the defective item a few days ago, you should have it as well as
recordings and spectrogram screen captures of the RFI.  I may or may not
have included a description of the charging malfunction.

I expected, as both described by the charger documentation as well as
experience with several other chargers of the same model in the past, plug
it in, no light, drop a radio in, red light, battery charged, green light.

What I got was an apparent dead charger, but wait, after a while a flashing
red light comes on, then maybe eventually it will go steady red, or maybe
flashing green, or maybe steady green, it was truly random and made no
sense.

The charger was returned to "Nick Scotto".  He shipped a replacement last
Friday.  It just arrived.

This one is a randomly malfunctioning POS too!

Two Yeasu FT-60's, both had the same use throughout the day were used to
test the new replacement charger.

Placed in the older chargers, red light, indicating they need a charge.

Placed in the new charger that just arrived, got flashing green light after
about a ten second delay.  What the heck is this supposed to mean?  Why
would one get a green light on a battery with about 5V in it?  Why would the
light flash?  Is this charger going to detonate or what?  Same result, two
radios, similar battery condition, same garbage new Yaesu charger.

Placed the same radios into two different older chargers, steady red, charge
done, steady green.  As expected, and as explained in the manual.

What the hell is Yaesu doing cranking out this garbage???

What I am left with for this new radio is an overnight charge at best, I can
forget about a quick charge when I really need it.

Please ask Yaesu to start by recalling this junk, then get their s**t
together and limit themselves to only supplying the old chargers that
worked.  This is the second unit in two weeks that has had different
problems.  They should be ashamed of themselves.

I'll be sending this junker desktop charger back by Friday for a refund.
I'll see if I can find something used that works.  I'm debating if I should
even bother checking out how much RFI this one spews.

Kurt

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