tk 280 problem

azFIREguy · Post by **azFIREguy** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 1:52 pm

Here the deal. My chief always cuts him self off on the radio ( this is not the problem

) How ever he brought me his radio to take a look at it. The radio has a new battery that is about 1 month old and a few that are about 8 months old. When I key up the radio about 1-2 sec. into the tx the radio cuts out and the led starts to flash red. This make me think the battery is dead, however the batt has a full charge and does this right off the charger. So I go into the RSS and read the radio and everything looks fine. So I then go into the " test mode " and then to F10 "tuning mode" then "battery waring level" but it will not allow me to adjust anything there. Is there away to just the batt warning level?

nmfire10 · Post by **nmfire10** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:14 pm

Just because the battery just came off the charger doesn't mean it is good. The battery can be defective. Try it with another known-good battery and see if it does the same thing. Like someone else said, clean up the battery contacts on the radio which might be causing a voltage drop.

If it still does it, I think it will be "off to a kenwood dealer" time.

azFIREguy · Post by **azFIREguy** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:04 pm

matt, I did check it with other batt's still does the same thing. I know just because it came off the charger it still could not work but i thought i would throw that in there some somebody didn't say " charge the battery" Oh well I guess its off to the depot