Could someone please point me in the right direction to find a replacement
battery pac for a SeaRanger SRX9500 handheld marine vhf radio? Who makes
the radio? Please reply via e-mail as I don't get on the newsgroups much.
Thanks
Jim

The Sea Ranger VHF is manufactured by Techsonic Corp. in Eufaula, AL 36027,
1-800-633-1468

http://www.techsonic.com/

The customer service division of SeaRanger Marine Electronics is in Edison,
NJ 08818, 1-800-533-5007.

It may be cheaper to go to Batteries Plus and have your pack rebuilt though.

http://www.batteriesplus.com/



"Jim Harvey" wrote in message
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Could someone please point me in the right direction to find a replacement
battery pac for a SeaRanger SRX9500 handheld marine vhf radio? Who makes
the radio? Please reply via e-mail as I don't get on the newsgroups much.
Thanks
Jim

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 01:20:28 GMT, "KB9WMJ"
wrote:

The Sea Ranger VHF is manufactured by Techsonic Corp. in Eufaula, AL 36027,
1-800-633-1468

http://www.techsonic.com/

The customer service division of SeaRanger Marine Electronics is in Edison,
NJ 08818, 1-800-533-5007.

It may be cheaper to go to Batteries Plus and have your pack rebuilt though.

http://www.batteriesplus.com/

I second the Batteries Plus! Tell Batteries Plus to rebuild your
battery pack with the largest-capacity Nickel Metal Hydride batteries
that will fit the pack. This will eliminate the old Ni-Cd memory
problems, crappy OEM battery packs made of the cheapest batteries they
can get and you'll be simply amazed at how long these new technology
batteries will run the radio.

I've had Batteries Plus rebuild some packs this way for portable
drills. They take twice as long to charge in the crappy drill
charger, but will make a LOT of holes on a charge and you don't have
to worry about running them dry before recharging to keep Ni-Cds from
going bad. Ni-Metal Hydrides don't care if you run them all the way
down.

AA Ni Metal Hydrides are up to 2100 maH capacity, now. Amazing power
from such a little cell.


Larry W4CSC

NNNN

Don't even bother with the original manufacturer. Even if by some chance
they had the battery pack you need, odds on it would be the same age as the
radio and the batteries would only hold a twenty minute charge. I have seen
this happen a number of times when we had to replace portable pc or radio
batteries. even from first class companies like Gateway and Raytheon.
Think about it, when you build or commission a device to be built you order
the spares at the same time and put them on the shelf until someone orders
them.

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 02:57:00 GMT, "Don" wrote:

Don't even bother with the original manufacturer. Even if by some chance
they had the battery pack you need, odds on it would be the same age as the
radio and the batteries would only hold a twenty minute charge. I have seen
this happen a number of times when we had to replace portable pc or radio
batteries. even from first class companies like Gateway and Raytheon.
Think about it, when you build or commission a device to be built you order
the spares at the same time and put them on the shelf until someone orders
them.

The ham radio walkie talkie manufacturers are FINALLY smartening up.
New miniature walkies for 2 meters and 440 Mhz are coming out that use
STANDARD Lithium-Ion batteries used in other devices, so that every
year the stupid batteries are special for only that year, and end up
just like you describe....OLD.

OEM batteries in any device are the cheapest crap available from the
lowest bidders. OEM's buy batteries in bulk on bid. They don't make
them, themselves, even Motorola.


Larry W4CSC

NNNN

Motorola.

You can buy better, but can't pay more. I hated working on that
stuff.
I hate working on any of it now. I even farm out my own stuff. It
is worse
than working on new cars. If you don't have the $600 jig and a
$5000
test set then you either toss it or pay the bandits to fix it.

Leanne - Who was one of those bandit years ago.