On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 03:02 PM, Jeremiah Burton wrote:
After charging for 15 hours, the meter only reads 85% and thr battery voltage is reading 10.7v.? This doesn't seem right.??
As others have pointed out it seems that the charging voltage is too low to fully charge your battery.
One other thing, as someone previously posted to this group, the percentage battery displayed while operating represents the percentage of max voltage not the capacity of the battery that is left.? There is a subtle difference.?There is a way to change that battery display to show the actual battery voltage while operating, which is less deceiving. I just did this recently on my X5105 but?I don't remember which button you press and hold to make this change (it should be in the manual).?
Cheers
Michael VE3WMB?
P.S. On a completely unrelated note ... playing around with my X5105 settings at home I recently discovered that if you adjust the EQ settings to drop both the lows and highs to -12dB and boost the mid-range to +12dB then reception on CW sounds a whole lot better.? I guess that this is essentially implementing an Audio Peak filter for CW.? I have found that I can run the rig at lower audio volume setting and received CW stations really pop out without a lot of background hiss. One of the common complaints of this rig is the rather harsh sounding receive audio.? I also tried using a cheap pair of Maxell 32 ohm headphones instead of my usual 8 ohm ones and that seems to help too.?
