Cordless phones cutting out

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.

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

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

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:

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.

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.

it's a design feature

With tiny AAAs the only sensible optoin is NiMH

NT