Sanjaya wrote:
"John S." wrote in message
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James Douglas wrote:
Never got the batteries to re-charge via the radio so I dropped the
batteries into my normal AA charger. 12 hours later took them out and
placed them into my radio and !Pffof! smoked the bitch!

Are you saying that batteries of the correct size and voltage which
were recharged in an external charger caused the radio to catch or
fire, or at least begin to smoke?


Looked in the manual and it indicates that you should never recharge
the batteries in any other way than indicated, ie, in the radio with
their power-pack, etc!

I think the manual will say somehting like only NIMH batteries should
be recharged in the radio(meaning not nicad or alkaline).



The E-10 must have NIMH batteries selected in System Settings to recharge in the radio.
The would not recharge if the setting was for regular AA batteries.

If radio was set for regular AA and NIMH batteries were inserted
what would happen? The manual is not clear about that. It does say the radio must
be set for the proper batteries and it does say it won't charge regular AA if that
is attempted.

That is good information. The O.P. should go back and re-read the
manual and read your message. I get the feeling that the manual was
probably skimmed at best.

I've had the best luck using a wall wart recharger and 2 sets of nimh
batteries on a DE1103. That setup allows the radio to stay truly
portable at all times.


Anyone heard of this before, there were the batteries that were included
with the radio, green eton NI-MH 1100! Guess it's time to go to ebay
for another!

Never heard of it. I suspect something else.




jimdouglas