Motorola Spirit Battery charging question

Flatshovel · Post by **Flatshovel** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 4:32 am

Hi all,
I have 2 Motorola MV21CV Spirit radios. I am in need of replacement batterys for them. It currently has NI-CD batterys and I want to add NIMH battery for the higher capacity. My question is, can I charge the NIMH batterys with the wall charger that came with the radio without messing anything up?

Thanks,
Joey

Post by **escomm** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 9:29 am

I don't think Motorola makes NiMH batteries for your radio? My customers still have about 50 of these in service and I've never seen an OEM NiMH battery available.

That said, I don't think the standard charge is multi-chemistry and you won't be able to use knockoff NiMH batteries. Someone with more experience in aftermarket gear can correct me if I'm wrong.

Will · Post by **Will** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 2:59 pm

YES the wallwort will charge the NiMh batteries, BUT it will take a longer time to charge due to the increased capacity. There is a drop-in battery charger conversion for most Spirit radios that uses the "shoe " charger..

BTW, Sandy, the NiMh batteries have been available for the Spirit radios since very early 2000....... and yes they work well how many batteries do you need :)....

Post by **escomm** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 3:11 pm

Cool Will, are they still available from Motorola?

I can't seem to find any reference to them here in my price book or on MOL. The only thing I find on Google are links to aftermarket manufacturers as well

Flatshovel · Post by **Flatshovel** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:04 pm

I would like to thank everybody for there input, I thought I could use the nimh batterys without problems. As for the increased time to charge the battery is ok I can deal with that. I did a Google search and turned up http://www.batterybarn as the cheapest to these I need 2. They are listed as being $13.95 a piece. Not a bad price I think.

Thanks,
Joey

Will · Post by **Will** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:48 am

escomm wrote:Cool Will, are they still available from Motorola?

I can't seem to find any reference to them here in my price book or on MOL. The only thing I find on Google are links to aftermarket manufacturers as well :(

Motorola never had the NiMh batteries for P50, P10, MV21CV Spirit radio series that we know of.

Try batterybarn mentioned in Joey's post.