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PRE-OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Some pre-planning is necessary to ready the ICRI for use. The following should be accounted for
before placing the ICRI on-line:
1.
Determine what the power source will be for the ICRI and verify that the internal battery is
charged, the power cable or battery pack is available.
2.
Predetermine what brand and model of radios will be connected to the ICRI and that an
―interconnect‖ cable for each radio is available.
3.
Advise agencies that they will need to supply a ―spare‖ radio, for the radio interoperability,
that the radio supplied must be known to operate properly and have at least one fully charged
battery.
This ICRI can be powered by the internal batteries or another DC source up to 24 VDC. The LEDs
on the ICRI provide information battery status, in particular, a reliable indication of a low voltage
condition.
Note: If eight “AA batteries are used, the ICRI will continue operate to nominally for at least 2
hours after the “OK” LED is extinguished and the “LOW” LED has lit and then extinguished
(batteries will provide a reduced duty cycle due to low quality, poor storage conditions before use,
and/or low temperature during use).
Among the other power sources that can be used to power the ICRI are:
12 or 24 volt vehicle battery
Vehicle cigarette lighter
115VAC (with an external adapter)
Commercial dry-cell battery (12V or greater)
C-AT 12 volt battery pack (uses 8 ―AA‖ batteries)
BA590 ―military‖
The ICRI‘s internal regulated power supply is both reverse polarity protected, but it is important to
check polarity of DC supplies before connecting them to the ICRI.
Note: The ICRI power input connector information appears on the bottom of the ICRI
.
FIGURE 1: ICRI-WFM WITH HANDSET AND RADIOS
