AT first I thought it had just stopped working with batteries, so I've
been powering it with a wall wart for years now. Well, the other day I
had a brand new pack of Duracell disposable batteries so I thought what
the heck, why not give it a try. So I installed the batteries and what
do you know, it worked just fine. Those lasted a few days, but this
morning the battery meter was getting low so I replaced them with four
freshly charged never-been-used Energizer batteries, 2300 mAh.
Well, I flipped the radio to turn it on, and was somewhat surprised to
see that it was completely dead. I removed the batteries then put them
back in, thinking maybe there was a bad contact somewhere. This didn't
work, so I took the batteries out and put them in the my battery
charger. I expected the charger to run for three, maybe five minutes or
so. But no, it ran for a full charging cycle, about 40 minutes.
Somehow, my radio had completely discharged the batteries in a matter
of seconds.
Anyone have an idea what's going on here?