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Charging a Saber Battery
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 11:56 am
by fogster
Maybe this is a dumb question, but... I want to charge a (aftermarket) Saber battery, but don't have the Motorola charger. I use a Maha universal charger (MH-C777) to charge all my batteries, but I can't, for the life of me, figure out how to do the Saber one.
I can't quite position the charging prongs to let me use the top terminals, and I don't know which of the four bottom terminals I want. (Applying an LED across any given two produces nothing. It will light when put across the top terminals.)
Which two terminals on the bottom (back) do I want, or can I not even charge the battery this way?
Thanks for the help!
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 12:05 pm
by SPEAKER MIC
use the outside ones...
battery:
l O O . O O l
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use the x ones
battery:
l X O . O X l
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hope that helps, i have been using the same configuration for my ht1000, ht1250, mts2000, mtx8000, mtx950, saber, and visar batteries and had nothing but results..
good luck
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 2:32 pm
by silverbk
You can also always use the radio terminals, but with a Saber battery you will have to put it a weird angle on the Maha.
I have single unit Saber Charger for sale for $30 shipped. PM me if you are interested.
Maha and Saber battery...
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 3:20 pm
by Tom in D.C.
My Maha works fine on Saber batteries. I position the battery
with the top terminals to the back left of the charger table as you
look at the unit from the front. I can get the movable terminals
in the correct position with this setup. Only problem with this
setup (on all batteries) is that if you jostle the charger table
you're likely to lose contact, so I tilt the right side of the charger
up so the battery rests against the terminals due to gravity.
But a regular Saber charger is easiest way to do this by far.
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 4:30 pm
by AEC
You can always use the battery plate and terminals to adapt the charger to work on the Saber batteries as you simply clip lead the plate's contacts to the proper charger terminals.
Since the plate is the negative, you only need to worry about tapping the positive teminal, for which you can use the 'old' flex assy. from an old Saber case to make a connection from that, since the positive is fed through to a soldered barrel 'nut' that's on the flex assy in the case.
Just cut an old case down to about 3/8" thickness and solder a loop of wire to the point where the 'nut' pops through the bottom of the case and allows screwing the spring contact to it.
The metal battery plate hold the entire assy. together so you will not have to worry about loose connections once the plate is retained by the positive connection screw.
I know this was a H.S method to describe this simple adaptor, but it IS a lot simpler than I made it appear.