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Transmitter memory batteries

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Grounded Grid

While musing about why one of my memory batteries only lasted 7 months, this thought came up for the brain trust here.

Of the transmitters I currently take care of, the ones by Harris (Gates) and BE have 9-volt or double-A batteries to hold their power settings.

If the manufacturers couldn't make their boards with non-volatile memories, why couldn't they have built their systems with rechargeable batteries and some form of trickle charger?

Seems obvious to me, but I don't see anything like that out there.
 
Most rechargable batteries aren't real happy being continuously charged (short runtime) and the alkaline batteries should last you 2-3 years.

I'd guess any transmitter made in the last 5-8 years has had a non-volatile memory chip. But I've never had the luxury of working on one that new, so I wouldn't really know :D
 
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