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Cordless phones cutting out
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 Any ideas? -- Jim S Tyneside UK www.jimscott.co.uk |
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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 |
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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. -- Jim S Tyneside UK www.jimscott.co.uk |
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On Feb 12, 3:11*pm, Jim S wrote:
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. -- Jim S * * * * Tyneside UK * * *www.jimscott.co.uk- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Are they right type of batteries???? In other words same as the originals and therefore most compatible with the chargers! Just a suggestion. |
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On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:27:29 -0800 (PST), terry wrote:
On Feb 12, 3:11*pm, Jim S wrote: 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. -- Jim S * * * * Tyneside UK * * *www.jimscott.co.uk- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Are they right type of batteries???? In other words same as the originals and therefore most compatible with the chargers! Just a suggestion. Ah! I never thought of that. Yes they are the originals ~ 3 years old -- Jim S Tyneside UK www.jimscott.co.uk |
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"Jim S" wrote in message ... 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. -- 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 |
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Jim S saying something like: The next question seems to be which type of battery do I replace with? The current (no pun intended) ones are nickel metal hydride. I had to do exactly that with my cordless batteries - simply bunged in some AAAs of 900mAH instead of the original weedy 600mAH ones which had lasted several years. The cradle charger in the phone base seems to cope perfectly well with the extra capacity - at least, there have been no problems with the replacements at all and they've been in two years or so. NiMH will be fine, if that's what was in them. |
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Jim S wrote:
I have a battery tester, but am coming to the conclusion that it might give wonky readings with rechargables. My DECT handsets own chargers and my Speed8 (Ansmann not Bentley!) charger seem to disagree about what constitutes charged. After about a year the phones seem to get to a point where they don't hold much charge, so I remove the AAA NiMH cells, and charge them externally, until the (delta-V) charger shows them as full, then I leave them on trickle for a while. When I put them back into the phones, they show zero bars of charge and then spend the next few hours recharging up to 3 bars, almost as though the bars are nothing to do with reality. |
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"Jim S" wrote in message ... 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 Any ideas? -- Jim S Tyneside UK www.jimscott.co.uk it's a design feature |
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On Feb 12, 6:11*pm, Jim S wrote:
The next question seems to be which type of battery do I replace with? The current (no pun intended) ones are nickel metal hydride. With tiny AAAs the only sensible optoin is NiMH NT |
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