Vic,
I have two Paragons, one with the V.6 and one with the V.3 Gielh chips.
Both have the Voice board (#257). Recently, I experienced the same
symptoms as you are having, i.e., a drained Ni-Cad battery, in less than
12 hours. I did some changeouts and found that one of my Voice Boards,
no matter which radio it was in, was causing the problem. All the
"Voice" functions continued to work fine, just a drained battery,
overnight. I pulled the suspect board and the radio now retains
memories and the trickle charge is functioning fine. I have shipped the
Voice Board to TT and hopefully, they will find the problem.
Jim/Ke3nK
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Vic Klein wrote:
I have a model 585 Paragon with a v.6 Giehl chip that has performed
beautifully and is my all-time favorite rig. It had the trickle-charge
option from the factory and uses a NiCd battery for maintaining memories,
and I've never had a problem losing memory even with all power removed for
days at a time...until just recently. Now it may lose memories after only 12
hours of "off" time. Although the battery is less than a year old, I plan to
replace it, but as I recently added the voice-board I was wondering if that
adds any load to the 9v battery? Are there better 9v battery options
available? Thanks for any insights.
=Vic=
WA4THR
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