Motorola Vehicle Charger – RLN4884A

[Jim1348]

I use a VHF HT-1000 now, but I found out this week that I will be issed a Motorola XTS5000 later this year when we switch to the ARMER system in Minnesota. I am considering just getting a vehicle charger now for my pickup truck so that I can use the HT-1000 in it now and the XTS-5000 later. I just wan to verify that the RLN4884A is compatible with BOTH the HT1000 and the XTS5000 batteries. My other concern was the posts about the Impress battery charging routines. I don't know yet whether we will be getting Impress batteries or not. Anyway I gather from previous posts that you can use Impress batteries in regular chargers as long as they are "initialized" in Impress chartgers, or did I misunderstand previous posts on this issue?

[NickH]

The RLN4884 will work for both portables. An Impres battery will work just fine from day one in a regular charger, except you don't get any Impres features and the Impres extended warranty.

[tvsjr]

Another suggestion, though a fair amount more money. Take a look at the WPLN4208 impres Vehicular Charger. As I said, it's more money ($390 list vs. $95 list for the travel charger) but it should accept all Jedi/XTS/Saber batteries and is a full impres charger, so it won't confuse your batteries.

I discovered through experience that the utility of the impres system drops significantly when you have any non-impres chargers in the mix. You come to rely on the smart battery... but sometimes, it's not that smart, since you charged it in a dumb charger. As a result, I ended up with a 6-position impres rack charger with display modules for home and several impres single chargers for on-the-road applications. I don't have a vehicular charger, as I always have a spare, 100% charged 8962C LiIon pack with me (if I need more than the 50+% in the on-radio batt and all of the spare pack... it's a *bad* day).

I would suspect that your new subscriber units will have impres. Moto is pushing impres heavily, especially in the public safety world... after using it for awhile, the push is with good reason.

[resqguy911]

Do what? The Impres vehicular charger does saber batteries? (yes I know that is a typo, they don't fit)

[pfd radio]

Can you charge the older HT1000 batteries with the Impress vehicle charger? We will be switch to XTS2500's and were thinking of changing the chargers before we put the XTS radios in service.

[resqguy911]

Can you charge the older HT1000 batteries with the Impress vehicle charger? We will be switch to XTS2500's and were thinking of changing the chargers before we put the XTS radios in service.

Never been a problem.