Hello Everyone,
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Before purchasing this radio, I did some readings on this group and other readings available out there. Two issues seem to be major concern among the owners of this rig: 1) internal battery charge/discharge management; heat generated by digital modes. There are other little issues, but I will focus on this two.
Received the radio last Thursday, Dec 7th, and being aware about those two big concerns, before any other kind of radio usage, I started immediately checking the battery according to information found in https://www.radioddity.com/blogs/all/xiegu-x6100-battery-charging-questions-and-answers. The radio came with what I believe to be the last firmware (APP v1.1.7 Aug 25 2023 and BASE v1.1.6 Mar 7 2023).
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[Charge/Discharge 1]
Started charging at 8:00pm (Solid Green)
Stopped charging at 8:00am (Solid Green)
Started discharging at 8:05am (8.2 volt)
? ? 7.7 volt (White Status) after 1 hour of listening
? ? 7.4 volt (Yellow Status) after 2 hour of listening
? ? 7.3 volt (Red Status) after 3 hour of listening
Shutdown 7.1 volt (Lasted 3h32m)
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[Charge/Discharge 2]
Started charging at 11:45am (Blinking Green)
Stopped charging at 5:00pm (Solid Green)
Started discharging at 5:15pm (8.2 volt)
? ? 7.7 volt (White Status) after 1 hour of listening
? ? 7.4 volt (Yellow Status) after 2 hour of listening
? ? 7.3 volt (Red Status) after 3 hour of listening
? ? 7.1 volt (Red Status) after 4 hour of listening
Shutdown 7.0 volt (Lasted 4h5m)
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[Charge/Discharge 3]
Started charging at 12:00am (Blinking Green)
Stopped charging at 10:50am (Solid Green)
Started discharging at 11:00am (8.2 volt)
? ? 7.7 volt (White Status) after 1 hour of listening
? ? 7.4 volt (White Status) after 2 hour of listening
? ? 7.3 volt (Yellow Status) after 3 hour of listening
? ? 7.1 volt (Red Status) after 4 hour of listening
Shutdown 5.8 volt (Lasted 4h43m)
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[Charge/Discharge 4]
Started charging at 3:50pm (Blinking Green)
Stopped charging at 12:00am (Solid Green)
Started discharging at 8:45am (8.2 volt)
? ? 7.7 volt (White Status) after 1 hour of listening
? ? 7.5 volt (White Status) after 2 hour of listening
? ? 7.3 volt (White Status) after 3 hour of listening
? ? 7.1 volt (Yellow Status) after 4 hour of listening
? ? 6.2 volt (Red Status) after 5 hour of listening
Shutdown 5.9 volt (Lasted 5h4m)
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The 4 charge/discharge cycles were achieved during the weekend (Saturday 9 and Sunday 10) and on in each cycle, allowed the radio to charge for 8-14 hours, always using the provided charger. During discharge, that was always is listening only, connected to YouLoop passive antenna, I would leave on until it shutdown himself.
Yesterday, Monday 11th, I used the radio for one hour or so and turned it off. Towards the end of day, I turned on the radio again, about 7.5 volt, and used until it turns off due to lack of battery. During this discharge cycle, the 5th, I noted that the battery status color code did no longer went from White->Yellow->Red, but instead, remaining always White while the voltage go down. I plugged radio to charger and this time, the green led did not blink while it was charging.
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There is serious problem on how power/battery is managed by this radio, no matter how carefully you follow recommendations... assuming that I did so.
Sorry for long post and probably some english grammar/spell erros :(
