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April 17th 04, 01:53 AM
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:52:45 -0400, William Mutch
wrote: In article , says... On 9 Apr 2004 20:06:28 -0700, (Gary) wrote: B Banton wrote in message My 800 hums slightly when I turn the light on. Does a sync detector help with that? My battery indicator flashes after about 3 hours of use. Does turning the gain control up have an effect on that? My 800 can't display the letters USB. How would you have me fix that? They doubled up the BATT and Attenuate letters. Do you know that? I can't turn the damn volume knob past 3 before sound distorts. Care to tell me why they included volume control past that point? Even past the half-way point? The 800 is an absolute mess. For anyone to defend it is absolutely incredible IMO. And just another reason why mediocrity is becoming acceptable. Tell Grundig to stuff that unit up their ever loving a**. Regards I'd say you have a defective unit. As far as the display not displaying the letters USB - that was taken directly from the Drake SW8 which also cannot display the letters USB. Some of the early sets, including mine, have a bad adjustment for the battery indicator and it flashes, like you say, after about 3 hours of use. That was corrected on later units, so I understand. The other problems you have seem to be on your set as I do not have those problems with mine. "snip" I've run my Sat 800 (second series) for the last year on a car battery. The supply voltage as listed in the manual is 9 volts, but cast in plastic above the supply input jack is "9-15 volts". The radio is very happy with even a fully charged battery at 13.8 v and will last for *weeks* of my teenager listening to loud rock music between charges. -------------- 9-15 volts; interesting! I bought one of the first available S800s from Sharper Image (Still works like a champ with a very quiet 400' loop, everyday). The plastic on mine, by the input, reads DC 9V. I do run mine on a garden tractor/snowmobile battery but use an RS DC-DC converter to get 9V @900ma output. In addition I keep a 50w solar panel connected to the battery. Maintenance on the whole deal is to add a little distilled water to the battery every couple years and occasionally soap/rinse spray the solar panel on the roof. Was tempted at first to chance running the receiver straight off the 12V too, but opted to be gentle on the components. Any comment out there on detrimental effects of higher voltage use? Or, what's best for the radio. Great radios ain't they? bball Sat800, 400' loop @15' height, AD Sloper (not as good), MFJ 959B for good matching, switching, occ amplification. |
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