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Green led on Astro
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:58 am
by racerman1cars
Greetings, I have an Astro Saber what function does the green led do? can I make it green for battery kevel? Thanks
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:06 am
by Rayjk110
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.
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:40 pm
by fogster
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.
Green led on Astro
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:47 pm
by racerman1cars
Hi, Thanks for the replies. I knew it would be green on power up. I was hoping I could have green.
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:41 pm
by mancow
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.
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:59 pm
by mr.syntrx
It flashes red on low battery, but it doesn't go green.
You only get green for page/call/inbound phone.
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:21 pm
by mancow
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.
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:11 am
by mr.syntrx
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.
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:36 pm
by Elroy Jetson
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
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:39 am
by mancow
Dude, I thought you were dead or something.
Good to see you are still around