Hello all,
While pack packing in the cold weather this past weekend, I noticed that
my "pimped-out" KX1 had dropped down to 2w power output after about a
hour on the air. I thought it was due to the batteries and the cold -
wrong!
Today I opened up my KX1 and checked each Li-ion battery with a
voltmeter. One of the parallel banks had all three of the AA Li-ion 3.7v
batteries reading 3.4V and the other bank 4.01V?
I found that a connection on one of the battery holders had come apart
and I lost one 11.8V battery bank! It came apart where the wire lug was
crimped to the battery case on the + lead of one bank. Instead of having
a 11.8V @ 1.5AH battery, I had a 11.8V @ 750MAH battery -hi!
I fixed the connection today and all looks ok.
72,
Ed,WA3WSJ
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