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!

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!

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!


jimdouglas

Jeesh, lots of information, possibly a troll! Nope.

The batteries are Eton Ni-MH 1100 which came with the radio! I never got
the batteries to charge correctly within the radio and ETON replaced the
batteries as they indicated there were problems with some batteries. In
fact I received them today, one day too late I guess. I am pleased that
they sent out new batteries!

I charged them with the a charger which supports only Ni-MH type
batteries. I have charged these same Eton batteries before in this
charger with no problems. The internal setting are correct and the
batteries were installed correctly.

It smoked, no fire, just smoke and that terrible smell that indicates
your favorite bedside radio is fried. I just sent them an email and
wonder what they will say. I purchased another one today on Ebay for
$29.00 + 10.00 Fedex Shipping. I don't think I will be using
rechargeable batteries in the new one!