[TenTec] Paragon

[Vic Klein]

It sounds like your Paragon may not have the charging circuit for the memory
battery. Early models lacked the charger that later became standard and
there was a modification available to include this circuit. Mine has never
run down except for a brief period when I first installed an unmodified
voice board. I frequently travel and am away for a week at a time and the
radio comes up with all memories intact when I return, so yours does sound a
bit excessive.

=Vic=
WA4THR

----- Original Message -----
> From: <ultrafixedwing at juno.com>
> To: <tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 5:06 PM
> Subject: [TenTec] Paragon
>
> I put a Nimh 9 volt in my Paragon 585 after charging it well before hand.
> After about a week of on-off operating, I'm down to 1 days life on my
> memory. I have a wall wart with a 9 volt connector on it and I guess I'll
> plug that in in place of the battery and leave it plugged in 24-7 rather
> than having my TT supply on 24-7. Did TT build such a large flaw into the
> rig? Is this the only solution? I don't have the voice board which I
> understand eats batteries.
> Paul
> KS2S