Battery Care & Tips

• Charge your new battery overnight before using it. This is referred to as INITIALIZING and will enable you to obtain maximum battery capacity.
• Nickel Cadmium or Nickel Metal Hydride: 14-16 hours.
• Lithium Ion/Polymer: 1-2 hours after the charger light turns green.
• New Motorola impres batteries, when inserted into a Motorola impres charger, will indicate a calibration cycle by displaying a steady Yellow indication on the charge status indicator. Allow this calibration process to complete by not removing the battery from the charger until it has completely charged and displays a steady green indication.
• In order to minimize capacity loss and cycle life reduction, new NON INITIALIZED batteries must be stored in well ventilated, cool dry locations. Batteries stored in these conditions may be stored:
• Nickel Cadmium - up to 2 years.
• Nickel Metal Hydride - up to 18 months
• Lithium Ion/Polymer - up to 18 months
• If used batteries are to be removed from service for extended periods (greater than 30 days) they should be discharged to about 50% of their capacity before storage in a cool, dry location.
• Batteries which have been in storage for more than two months should be fully discharged and recharged.
• Nickel Cadmium or Nickel Metal Hydride: 14-16 hours.
• Lithium Ion/Polymer: 1-2 hours after the charger light turns green.
• When using a Motorola rapid charger, leave the battery in the charger for an additional 1-2 hours after the steady green light appears. (Applies to non-impres batteries only.)
• Do not leave your radio and fully-charged battery in the charger when not charging. Continuous charging will shorten battery life. (Do not use charger as a radio stand.)
• Only charge a battery when it needs it. If it is not fully discharged, do not recharge it. We suggest that you carry a spare. This is the most cost effective solution for usersrequiring longer operating time.
• Do not return fully charged non-impres batteries to the charger for an "extra boost." This action will significantly reduce cycle life. Repeated short cycle charging of non-impres batteries will shorten battery life. (Do not use charger as a radio stand for non-impres batteries.)
• Stabilize batteries to room temperature (72°F) before charging. Charging below 40°F and above 104°F will decrease cycle life.

These simple care instructions help protect your rechargeable batteries from
extreme charging temperatures and enhance their performance and useful life.

How old is your battery??

Motorola Original two way radio batteries have a 3 digit code on them. The first digit represents the year, the last two are the week of the year. For example; a date code of 316 would be from the 16th week of 2003. Motorola Premium NiCD batteries carry an 18 month capacity warranty while most NiMH and Li-Ion carry a one year capacity warranty meaning they will maintain higher than 80% of rated capacity during the warranty period. Motorola impres batteries carry an extra 6 month capacity warranty if used with an impres charger. Thats two years on a NiCD impres battery!!

We recommend mission critical customers test or replace their batteries every two years to ensure proper performance of their Motorola radios when needed. We have the ability to analyze your batteries to make sure they are performing up to Motorola's rough standards throughout their lifetime.

Motorola IMPRES(Intelligent Motorola Portable Radio Energy System) batteries

Motorola’s impres Smart Energy System -a revolutionary battery charging and reconditioning solution -- automates battery maintenance, optimises cycle life and maximises talk time so your radio system will be charged and ready to go when you need to communicate. With impres, battery charging and adaptive reconditioning are automated. No manual battery maintenance is required, so you don’t need a dedicated service technician or additional reconditioning hardware. With plug-and-play single and multi-unit chargers, you can decentralise battery maintenance by assigning chargers to individual users; it’s no longer necessary to allocate specific personnel and reconditioning equipment to handle battery maintenance.

Although complete smart features are realised only when using impres batteries and chargers together, impres chargers can also handle legacy batteries; in fact, the multi-unit chargers can simultaneously charge legacy and impres batteries. The battery may be left in the charger for extended periods without damaging heat build-up, while remaining at or near full-charge. This makes impres ideal for those applications that require equipment in a ready state at all times. In addition, if partially charged batteries are briefly removed from the charger, they can be replaced and the charging cycle picks up right where it left off. All impres batteries can be reconditioned without removing them from the radio. No adapter plates are necessary; simply put the radio in the charger, assured that when you remove it, the battery will be fully charged and ready to go. An End of Service indicator lets you know when the battery has reduced capacity and may need to be removed from service. Because impres batteries are automatically adaptively reconditioned, memory effect is controlled, enabling consistently optimal performance. impres batteries also carry and additional 6 month warranty over non-impres batteries of the same chemistry; 18 months on NiMH and two years on NiCD!

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