Re: Radionics 5700: lithium batteries

["Jackcsg" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"X. Boschman" <XBoschmanNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > Sounds like you had reversed polarity to me.
> > >
> > > X.
> > >
> > I once, as an experiment of course, left the battery hooked up backwards
> on
> > a DMP XR-200 for a couple of weeks...no damage to the panel though....it
> was
> > cool.
>
> I wonder (I really don't know) if the DMP charging circuit even operates
> under those circumstances.   If you unplug the AC, does the panel operate,
> and is it reliable?
>
> X.
>
>
It did send a low battery, and no, the circuit shuts down to protect the
panel. So unplugging it I would assume would have shut it down. Radionic's
panels don't particularly like that either, nor probably any other panel.

Jack