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Re: ac power jack on Th-f6a
From:
Tom Behler <[log in to unmask]>
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Blind-Hams For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:59:10 -0400
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    Brent:

My understanding is that the wall charger is just a trickle charger, and
wouldn't have enough amperage to make the radio work effectively in transmit
mode.

Best 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brent Harding" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: ac power jack on Th-f6a


> That's a good thing, so it was likely as good as plugging in nothing,
since
> no circuit would ever complete. I know the manual says to let it go about
> 6.5 hours a charge and to not press the ptt while it's plugged in. I
wonder
> why I can't operate with it plugged in?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 8:39 PM
> Subject: Re: ac power jack on Th-f6a
>
>
> > I wouldn't know, I've never done that, I took it out of the box, looked
> and
> > said "hmmm, top 2 look like speaker mic so must be bottom since it looks
a
> > little different, cover and all" and I plugged it in and went on my way.
> > When I got mine I had a half charged battery so I actually ran it for
> about
> > 6 hours programming it by hand before I charged it. I don't think you'd
> hurt
> > the jack doing what you did though,  the connector for the charger is a
> > barrel connector so it's looking for that center pin that's in the
> charging
> > jack,  way in you can't reach it in that tiny jack, but it's there to
make
> > the connection, in the mic jack it's only connecting with the outer
shell
> of
> > the charger connector not completing the circuit so unless you turned it
> on
> > that way I'd doubt you did any damage.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brent Harding" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:34 PM
> > Subject: Re: ac power jack on Th-f6a
> >
> >
> > > Oh, I hope it's not possible to damage the ports if plugging in the
> wrong
> > > way, it seems to fit, but I would imagine not quite enough for it to
do
> > > anything.
> > >
> >

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