That's what I figured.  I have the Uniden BC250D and the Pro-96 trunking
scanners, and those as I'm sure you all know charge with this kind of
charger, and when my mother found it it was a little warm, but nothing to
be concerned about.





On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, John Miller wrote:

> Well, the transformers are always going so I guess it uses a little though
> probably not enough to make a difference. Main thing with that is most
> TH-F6A's and some other radios if you do that, there's a fuse inside that
> blows if you have the charger plugged in to the wall before the  radio
> making it not charge, not to mention those barrel connectors are easy to
> short out if you're not careful and that's never a good thing as I learned
> the hard way a few years ago. From an electricity use thing though, ya, it
> uses some but probably not enough to even notice. I don't have the outlets
> here to do that even if I was going to, I'm running a fire hazard already.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 9:39 AM
> Subject: battery charger questions
>
>
> Hi  everyone, over the weekend my mother asked me to unplug the various
> battery chargers I have when they are not charging anything because of the
> fact that it would waste electricity.  The ones I have in use mainly are
> for the THF6A, and my Trekker GPS and a couple of scanners, and I just
> keep them plugged into the various power  supplies so I know where they are
> all the time, but I didn't think they'd be wasting electricity when not in
> use?  I'm not to worried about it, for now, but if anyone knows for sure
> let me know, and thanks in advance.
>