"Jim S" wrote in message
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On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:52:01 +0000, John L wrote:

In article ,
Jim S wrote:

I have a set of 4 cordless phones. They have on occasion cut out in the
middle of a conversation. If the call is incoming I can hang up and pick
up
another handset and continue, but it can happen again and the same thing
works with another handset. It first happened if I was using the
speaker,
but recently it was during a normal call. The batteries are fine and the
distances between the phones and the master-phone is never more than 10m

Are you sure the batteries are fine? Our phones do this occasionally,
nowadays. The batteries *seem* fine, in that they show four bars on the
charge indicator when you pick them up ... but they quickly degrade to 2
then 1. It was only last week that I realised that maybe I ought to
buy new ones (they're AAA rechargeables): they ust be at least 4 years
old by now.

John

That was my first thought.
I have a battery tester, but am coming to the conclusion that it might
give
wonky readings with rechargables. My test today was to leave the handset
next to where I am working,off the charger for several hours. That handset
cut out when the first call came in, but fortunately the handset in the
next room was still on its cradle and went on ringing.
The next question seems to be which type of battery do I replace with?
The current (no pun intended) ones are nickel metal hydride.
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Jim S


You will probably have to swap the batteries with like for like. Maplins is
a good place to start looking. Maybe just buy one set of batteries to start
with and see if that really is the problem

Adam