[Yaesu] More Yaesu garbage....

[Wesley Gray]

Hello Kurt,

I am sorry to hear you are having trouble with the VAC-370 charger. On the bottom of the charge cradle there would be a 4 digit number etched into the cradle. What is the 4 digit number on the charge cradles you have? Is the AC adapter you have the PA-49B or the PA-23B? Again these would have a 4 digit number etched into them by the prongs. What is the number etched into the adapters?

I am interested in knowing the numbers to see if we have some of the same in out warehouse stock for me to test.

What sort of RFI is the charger generating? How are you testing the RFI?

Best regards,

Wes Gray, KJ6OYT
Technical Support Supervisor

Yaesu USA | 6125 Phyllis Dr. | Cypress, CA 90630
w.gray at yaesu.com | 714.827.7600 x 1220 | Fax: 714.527.9472
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: KD7JYK DM09 [mailto:kd7jyk at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 7:45 PM
To: oakland at hamradio.com; anaheim at hamradio.com; Wesley Gray; Carole; KK7RC; yaesu at mailman.qth.net
Subject: More Yaesu garbage....

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