Batboard

I'm trying to program a P110 (8 channel) and I keep getting an error message. I'm thinking my problem is simple but, thought I'd ask.

I've got one of the programming cables that slides on in place of the battery. It's got a red/black (+/-) wires coming from it. I hooked these to the battery off the radio then a 9V battery but, it made no difference, although both made the little red LED light up. Neither one of these methods make the radio actually power on (thinking the trick is here somewhere).

Anyways, when I try to read the radio, the green LED flashes slowly while the red is steady burn and after a few seconds I get this: "No acknowledge. Serial bus error 2".

Software is Gp300/P110 Version 7.0.0

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

that 9v should power up the radio, i use one to do that but it soulds like you don't have power to the radio, does it beep when you turn it on? track down those leads, you can't do anlything until the radio has power.

Now .. and don't quote me on this .. you *MIGHT* be safely able to apply voltage that is ~ +-2v. But I wouldn't recommend going above the radio's recommended voltage, simply, because yes, it can be quite destructive.

[EDIT]Now that I've looked it up, if I'm not mistaken, a P110 takes a 7.5v battery, 12 volts would most definatly destroy the radio.[/EDIT]

The radio powers up fine with a regular battery slid on, correct? There's obviously a break in the power getting to the radio through your programming set-up. Use a volt meter to trace where the break is. If you don't have one, spend the $15 on a cheap one at Radio Shack or Home Depot...it'll work fine for your purposes.

Todd

wavetar wrote:The radio powers up fine with a regular battery slid on, correct?

10-4! works fine. I left one on the charger overnight. I shall try it when I get home.

You may have a contact problem inside the radio.

There is a dual-fingered spring contact with rubber isolation between the contacts, it's rectangular in shape and not easily missed once you remove the frame.

Sligthly lift upwards on these contact fingers and check the small 'silver' pad on the P.C board that's affixed to the frame, and see if there are dark traces on it, or some form of oxide buildup caused by water ingress or dirt/corrosion as this is both the programming port AND power port as well.

This has happened to me in the past and all that I had to do was lift up on these fingers and all was good.

Of course, once you can read the radio, you'll probably see that the alert tones were deselected so the radio powers up without a sound, hence the reason you hear silence upon P.O.S.T.

AEC wrote:Of course, once you can read the radio, you'll probably see that the alert tones were deselected so the radio powers up without a sound, hence the reason you hear silence upon P.O.S.T.

When the radio is on the battery and power knob is turned on there is a beep.

AEC, I sent you a PM.

I bought one of these and had same problem.
I had to cut two bits off the programmer as it did not slide onto radio far enough to make contact.
the one I bought said it would fit gp300 and p110 from radio arena on ebay.

have you got com port on right com port ?
one other thing at one time my programming lead had no contact and had to open the programmer and tighten the programming lead contact ( the centre pin)