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Hi all. I am experiencing a weird situation, I apologize ahead of time as I am a newbie to the 817.?

When I plug in an external battery the radio is not seeing it. I have a car power adaptor which it sees perfectly but for some reason it isn’t seeing the lifepo4 battery. I have checked the battery voltage and it is fine, I have a power pole adaptor on the radio but it is fine (car power cable is Anderson).?

I have checked the battery cable and it is showing both continuity and voltage on the Anderson connector going to the radio, nothing seems to be loose in the connection and I did check the contacts on both sides for corrosion and everything seems to be fine. I’m suspecting the power pole connectors even though they seem fine but I don’t have any to replace these with at the moment ?

Are there any settings that I am missing? ?It was seeing the connection yesterday just fine but not today. The onboard yaesu battery is suspect right now, I think it’s probably very weak due to age and I am planning on replacing it with the windcamp battery but would really like to know what I am doing wrong.?

thanks and 73
Kevin
K5KTM

Well it turned out to be the battery. It’s been working well for a while (10 months or so) but didn’t have enough poot for the radio to recognize it. I ended up putting my much larger 12ah that I use for my 891 on it and it came up fine. I also have brand new power pole connectors thanks to my buddy.
Problem solved.
73 all.
Kevin Mullens

Kevin, The WindCamp Battery is Way OVERPRICED and one of the (3) 3000 Mah Cells will "Fail"even in conservative Use, I know I found it the Hard $ Way.
Real 3000 Mah NickelMetalHidride Packs are available at way lower COST (sometimes in a 3 Pack deal) then the ONE WindCamp unit and can be easily retrofitted by Using the wires from the OLD pack, and you can still Use The FT-817 as the "Charger" source Yes It Will Take A Bit Longer,and you can build a small slide switch into the battery cover. ? ? ? ?
Best Regards.
Steve AB2ET/4

Thanks for the info Steve. Sounds like the way to go.

Kevin Mullens