I thought I may have flipped it on with it in the bottom one to see if I'd
get a beep signaling charging, but the radio itself doesn't appear to have
any problem, will be testing the jack when I get a 25 to 9 pin adapter.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: ac power jack on Th-f6a


> Well, if you turned it on with the charger in the wrong jack, I can
> certainly see that doing a lot of damage, but if you left it off probably
> not.  The charger doesn't have the amps to charge the battery while you're
> transmitting, it's just not there, if you hook it up to a power supply it
> will charge and transmit at the same time, but the charger that comes with
> the radio just doesn't have the current to do it, not many can do that if
> any I've had some that said they could, but come to find out what they
were
> actually doing is using the battery current effectively stopping the
charge
> until it was back in receive which I didn't like either considering that
> radio had nicads, or those radios I should say, there were 3 but basically
> the same model.
> ----- 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?
> >
>