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CHARGING LIGHT STATUS TABLE – WITH BATTERY INSERTED
RED CHARGING LIGHT
WHAT IT MEANS
WHAT TO DO
OFF
Charger doesn’t see the battery
SEE NOTE
STEADY ON
Battery is being charged
Wait. Do not remove battery.
BLINKS: 2 seconds ON; 2 seconds OFF Battery is being discharged
Wait. Do not remove battery.
BLINKS: 2 times quick; 3 seconds OFF
DISCHARGE ERROR
Battery is not discharging properly. SEE NOTE
BLINKS: 3 times quick; 3 seconds OFF
CHARGING ERROR
Battery is not charging properly. SEE NOTE
BLINKS: 4 times quick; 2 seconds OFF
LOW BATTERY ERROR
SEE NOTE
BLINKS: 5 times quick; 2 seconds OFF
CHARGING ERROR
SEE NOTE
NOTE:
Either the battery or the charger has a problem. Mark the battery and retry in a different slot. The battery is faulty if it
has the same problem in a different slot AND a known-good battery passes in the same slots. The charger circuitry is faulty
if a known-good BATTERY fails in the same slots.
Figure 8.
Battery charger shown with a properly installed battery
D. Charging the Batteries
Place up to four batteries in the battery charger to charge at the same time, as
shown in Figure 8. A few seconds after each battery is placed in the charger, the
red CHARGING light on the panel adjacent to the battery, will indicate the battery
charging status. See the CHARGING LIGHT STATUS TABLE for a detailed explana-
tion of what is happening. When a battery is fully charged, the green READY light
on the panel adjacent to it will light. (approximately 4 hours) It can then be placed
back into a Communicator.
CAUTION: Do not remove batteries from the charger until the green READY
light is lit or the red light is flashing, or the charger will reset and the charge
cycle will begin again.
