Originally Posted By: hikermor
What is the typical life of an alkline battery in today's transceivers? I ask because my experience with them was thirty years ago; as I recall, we load them up, hung them around our necks, and left them there for about three weeks...Charge indicators, what are those used for???


When you turn on a modern beacon, it will do a self check and show battery status in bars or percentage.

You can transceive with relatively low battery, but search mode sucks life out of transceive quickly. Batteries are cheap, so I just replace them for each week trip. Not sure if modern ones are more economical then the older ones or not. The new ones have 3 antenna's and digitale processors...

Then i try to use those alkalines in less important things, like bike lights that tend to be stolen here when you leave them on your bike...
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