another min 5 problem

lieut25 · Post by **lieut25** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 1:16 pm

I have a batch of 6 min 5 pagers with amp chargers. They have been in service for aprox 5 months. Now one of the pagers the battery and pager went dead and wont power up and the other pager went dead and will not power up also. Yes i did try new batterys before anyone ask. I did ship out the pagers to motorola last week but have not heard anything yet.

Al · Post by Al » Wed Mar 15, 2006 1:29 pm

What you're seeing is not new; Motorola has advised strongly to not use the Min V amplified chargers until they can find a fix:
http://batboard.batlabs.com/viewtopic.php?t=52492

MassFD · Post by **MassFD** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:18 pm

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What you're seeing is not new; Motorola has advised strongly to not use the Min V amplified chargers until they can find a fix:
http://batboard.batlabs.com/viewtopic.php?t=52492

Yea and they seem to be working at lightning speed as usual. What a load of crap, I have 60 of them issued and everyone is complaining about the buzz in the audio when both batterys are done charging. The ones that are not complaining about the buzz are complaining about the feedback howl because the pager becomes microphonic when in the charger. An external speaker cures the microphonics but who wants a speaker sitting next to the charger that already has a speaker.

I do have a few batterys that have been killed by the charger also.

DJP126 · Post by **DJP126** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 7:36 am

You can't blame Motorola for the delay on correcting the problem this time. Notice that the amplified charger is U.L. approved. Any and all changes to that charger means that the charger must go back to the Underwriters Labratory for recertification. They are the reason for the delay, not Motorola.

In the mean time, I'd recommend using the standard charger.

MassFD · Post by **MassFD** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:36 pm

You can't blame Motorola for the delay on correcting the problem this time. Notice that the amplified charger is U.L. approved. Any and all changes to that charger means that the charger must go back to the Underwriters Labratory for recertification. They are the reason for the delay, not Motorola.

RantModeON

I sure can blame Motorola, we waited 6 monts for these things to become avaiable due to a U.L. testing problem last time. Now we wait again.

I'M tired of Motorola using the end user as it's QA and testing Dept. They have learned nothing since the Minitor 3 about testing a product before release.

If there was an option Motorola could stop making voice pagers because everyone would be buying elseware

RantModeOff

nmfire10 · Post by **nmfire10** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:59 pm

If they didn't design a piece of junk charger in the first place, there wouldn't be a problem at all.

wkr518 · Post by **wkr518** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:18 pm

DJP126 wrote:You can't blame Motorola for the delay on correcting the problem this time. Notice that the amplified charger is U.L. approved. Any and all changes to that charger means that the charger must go back to the Underwriters Labratory for recertification. They are the reason for the delay, not Motorola.

In the mean time, I'd recommend using the standard charger.

I had some Amp charger problems.I called "M" and they shipped me 40 std chargers and 40 replacement batteries for no charge to swap out for problem Amps and Batts.
I heard today UL approved changes and shipping is starting shortly.
Not sure yet if a fix will be back to RSD or MSS level.
Wayne