XTS2500 Battery Question

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W6GHZ
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XTS2500 Battery Question

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Hello Group,

I have an XTS2500 powered by an NTN9857C battery. I was told that an XTS2500 will not work with an NTN7335A battery (2700mAH Li-ion) if it's currently being powered with an NTN9857C. Supposedly, the contacts on the radio side of the NTN7335A are in a different location. I can't find any documentation supporting this statement. In fact, the XTS2500 brochure shows the NTN7335A as a battery option, but does not say that it's only compatible with a Li-ion compatible XTS2500. I'm not an electronics person or a Motorola expert, but logic would say if the battery output voltage is similar or identical on both batteries, why would the radio care about battery chemistry? Can someone shed some light on this?

Thanks, Rich
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Re: XTS2500 Battery Question

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Who told you this? They are confused,
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Re: XTS2500 Battery Question

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Thank you for the reply. I wanted to make sure this claim was true or false.
I think I gave the wrong P/N for the Li-ion battery. I believe the correct P/N is NNTN7335A.

Thanks, Rich
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Re: XTS2500 Battery Question

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I have several XTS2500s and I use the NNTN7335A battery. The battery works great, and I buy all of mine from escomm.
-John
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Re: XTS2500 Battery Question

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John, Thank you for the information. It seems clear to me that the person propagating this claim does not know what he's talking about.

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Re: XTS2500 Battery Question

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We have the NNTN7335A battery in service and they work fine with all of the stand up Motorola chargers and the XTS2500 and 1500 series radios.

The only contacts that are different is if you attempted to charge the battery with a laydown Advancetec style charger using the old plates. Being Motorola removed the lower 3 contacts on a number of model batteries for these radios the laydown charger will not work, but there is a warning on the charger that advises not to charge the Li-ion battery.
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Re: XTS2500 Battery Question

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KS4VT, I appreciate the info. I do plan on using the charger Motorola recommends for the NNTN7335A battery.

Thanks, Rich
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Re: XTS2500 Battery Question

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Using the NNTN7335 in my fleet times 400 for the last 3 years. Just now starting to see batteries with less than 80% capacity that have been used every day for that 3 years. I also have the ACT laydown charger with the proper dock for the LiIon battery that works fine EXCEPT for the impress features like battery capacity on the impress charger with display or the battery gauge on the radio itself. Much prefer the impress chargers, just had to have the ACT stuff for mobile charging at the time of deployment.

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Re: XTS2500 Battery Question

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Thank you Dave. Good to know this info....Sounds like these batteries are working well for you.

Rich.
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