On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:03:56 -0600, Ignoramus20496
wrote:
We have a Uniden cordless phone system that works very well,
Any particular model number Uniden phone system?
except
that original batteries (BT-0003) have gone bad over the years.
How many years? My various Panasonic cordless phones seem to last
about 8-10 years. I'm on the original batteries for all of them.
Attempts to replace them with "Non-OEM", "Equivalent" bateries did not
work well,
What didn't work well? Did the battery run down too quickly? Did you
have inadequate capacity (time running on battery)? Did it fail to
take a charge? Any measurements or numbers?
basically those are junk that is falsely advertised.
Yep. 99% of everything is junk.
The
sellers simply know that the batteries are uneconomical to return, so
they sell junk that will not hold charge.
That's quite possible. I've received some fairly disgusting cell
phone batteries that I would suspect are defective. The eBay vendor
exchanged them at his expense. However, you're right that such low
end stuff is usually not economical to return. If you want cheap,
then be prepared to take some risks. If you want a warranty, be
prepared to pay for it.
This particular battery BT-0003 seems to be no longer available from
Uniden. When it was available years ago, it cost as must as a new
handset.
A quick Google search shows many vendors that sell this battery:
http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&source=hp&q=uniden%20bt-0003
at reasonable prices. I've also rebuilt these battery packs. Tear it
apart and weld some AAA NiMH rechargeable batteries in their place.
This is not brain surgery.
That price relationship leads me to believe that cordless phone
manufacturers purposely equip their phones with substandard batteries
or charging circuits, in order to sell more cordless phones.
Yep. Quality deteriorates until buyers start to complain. It then
sits forever just above the complaint threshold.
I would like to know whether there is some "honest" cordless phone
systems that, say, use rechargeable AA batteries or something like
that that has easy, economical replacement, or where good replacement
batteries are available from known honest sellers.
Probably, but I don't know of any offhand. There seems to be a
tradition (or conspiracy) that every handset product, including cell
phones, must have a non-standard or weird shaped battery. Inside,
they're all basically the same batteries, but manufacturers go through
extreme efforts to prevent interchangeability. It wasn't always that
way as I still recall the old 46/49Mhz phones, that used common AA
NiCd batteries. Something changed, probably product liability
litigation, which forced the manufacturers to change.
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