[OZAPRS] THD72A power

[Damien Gardner Jnr]

My D7 was the same - and it uses such an unusual sized little DC jack, I had to wait a week for the local DSE to order one in, so I could build a cable for the car :(

On 17/01/2011, at 1:30 PM, VK2FKO wrote:

> I have a YEASU VX5 and will shut down also when on a charge or a car lighter plug at 5 Watts. But on low power it will TX ok.
> My TH-D72 will shut down on the charger when I key up but on a car lighter plug at 5 Watts it transmits ok.
> 
> By the way how many people got a charger, 240V plug pack or  a car lighter plug  and cable with there TH-D72.
> I got nothing with my TH-D72, nothing at all to charge my KENWOOD TH-D72. 
> So I could not use the damn thing until I charged it up.
> 
> I had to go out and find a plug pack and buy it to charge the radio .
> I found out that I could have bought a Kenwood desk charger for around $169-00.
> 
> The TH-D72 is a good radio but I am really pinged off with Kenwood over this.
> I am not impressed with Kenwood.
> 
> Ray
> VK2FKO
> 
> 
> Andrew Rich wrote:
>> 
>> > When I run the ht off battery only the ht will emit 5 watts
>> >
>> > When I run th ht off a power supply that can not supply the required amps 
>> > to tx, the radio resets
>> >
>> > I would have thought the ht would draw power from the battery with power 
>> > applied ?
>> >
>> > Maybe kenwood have designed it differently ?
>> >
>> > So the power socket on a thd72 must not be a low current charger but a 
>> > full psu ?
>> >
>> > Andrew vk4tec
>> 
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