Green led on Astro

racerman1cars · Post by **racerman1cars** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:58 am

Greetings, I have an Astro Saber what function does the green led do? can I make it green for battery kevel? Thanks

Rayjk110 · Post by **Rayjk110** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:06 am

The LED will be green for a few seconds on power up, and I think also on a successful Call Alert/MDC Page recieved. I do not belive it does battery level indicaiton; afaik that was a feature that the Radius line and a few other radios do.

fogster · Post by **fogster** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:40 pm

I've never found a way to make it green in anything but its POST. (Although I don't do MDC stuff, so Rayjk110 is probably right there.)

I really wish it could do green on receive, red on transmit, like every ham rig I've ever owned...

I believe you can set the LED up to flash (red) on low battery... There's also the "low battery chirp" you can configure, although that gets annoying fast.

But to answer your exact question, there's almost nothing you can do with the green LED.

racerman1cars · Post by **racerman1cars** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:47 pm

Hi, Thanks for the replies. I knew it would be green on power up. I was hoping I could have green.

mancow · Post by **mancow** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:41 pm

I believe it goes green on low battery. I seem to recall that happening the other night when I went to transmit and found that I couldn't.

mr.syntrx · Post by **mr.syntrx** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:59 pm

It flashes red on low battery, but it doesn't go green.

You only get green for page/call/inbound phone.

mancow · Post by **mancow** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:21 pm

Maybe it was low enough to get stuck in a bootup mode.

It is a shame they didn't make it available to other options beyond signaling. I like the green on RX and red on TX idea that was mentioned.

mr.syntrx · Post by **mr.syntrx** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:11 am

mancow wrote:Maybe it was low enough to get stuck in a bootup mode.

Yeah, that's probably what it was. My AS3 and XTS3000 do that when they get really low.

mancow wrote:It is a shame they didn't make it available to other options beyond signaling. I like the green on RX and red on TX idea that was mentioned.

So do I. Almost all other radio manufacturers do it that way, so it'd be handy for familiarity.

Elroy Jetson · Post by **Elroy Jetson** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:36 pm

If it's a 2 pin, red/green bidirectional LED, unsolder it, flip it over, and reinstall it. Colors now reversed.

I've been known to install blue LEDs in radios, myself.

CJ

mancow · Post by **mancow** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:39 am

Dude, I thought you were dead or something.

Good to see you are still around