Motorola Personal Radio battery pack

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I bought a couple of radios just over a year ago to help with anchoring, transmitting 'you should be back at the boat' messages to the kids and obviously the essential ordering lunch from the bar etc... etc... etc.
Well sods law one of the battery packs failed (you guessed it just out of guarrantee) and after being completely messed about by the Motorola Customer (non) Services dept- useless bunch of ***** unless of course you want to buy a phone from them and they'll fall over themselves to help - you know how it is.......
Anyway not going to waste any more time or expensive calls with them and wont buy 'moto' any more. Forgive the rant, heres the plea:

Can anyone (as Motorola themselves can't manage it) signpost me to a supplier of a BYD D-AA600A which is the rechargable battery pack?
Thanks.
 
I have had some of these radios for some time and the NICADs packed up.

I went to a company who repack battery packs and had the NICADs replaced with NIMH and they now work perfect and I still use the supplied battery charger no problem
 
D-AA600A...

The D-AA600A is just a standard 600mAh AA NiCd rechargeable. You could replace it with any AA size rechargeable; ideally with a NiMH type to give better performance. You can buy rechargeable AA batteries in most electrical stores, or order online from someone like 7DayShop.
 
Charging AA's is a pain but is fine for an interim solution. Interested in the repack option as the ability to recharge from the desk top charger is one of the reasons I bought them in the first place.
Can you point me towards this company. Ta
 
Hi Teamspirit,

Slightly off-thread, but I've been thinking about getting couple of this sort of radio for just the things you use it for. Couple of questions if you'd be kind enough to reply: Do the Motorolas you have, have vox facility? What model is it and where can you buy them? Aside from the battery problem (not unusual on a lot of this type of mini-radio it seems) have you been happy with them?

Grateful for your thoughts.

Cheers Jerry
 
Have a look at:
<http://www.adventureshop.co.uk/motorola/motorola.htm>
<http://www.nevadaradio.co.uk/>

One of the battery packs in our T5522 died recently - I was about to buy a replacement, but tried some 2500 mA AA NiMH - I think that 7500mA is about *twice* the capacity of the OE Moto NiCad pack, so I'll be running them on AAs in future.

Maplin were selling a Uniross 12/240v charger with 6 AAs for about 15 quid last month - i.e. a fiver more than 4 2500mA AAa alone.

HTH
 
I second Re-cell ....

Just had very good mail contact with them ... and bodes well for service.
 
You WILL need a different charger. The three cells are packed with an in lin-line diode and resistor together with some welded strips that route the connections to the outside of the pack. Trying to transport these to a new pack is not easy. If you just use standard cells, you can't use the charging dock.
 
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