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8th Mar 2023, 11:54 pm | #1 |
Diode
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK.
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PYE PFX Battery Renovation.
If it interests anyone - have just done a blog about renovating the battery pack with a big of upcycling of old and adding some new.
Yes, you can carefully open the old pack and re-cell it but generally a big mess can be made! https://www.whizz3dparts.co.uk/whizz...-battery-packs |
9th Mar 2023, 3:35 pm | #2 |
Dekatron
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Wiltshire, UK.
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Re: PYE PFX Battery Renovation.
Nice work! I remember the hassle of cracking-open the NiCd battery-packs for the Pye PF2 and PF5 radios from the 70s to get to the DEAC cells inside. One organisation to my knowledge actually made-ip a machine for clamping these and with a guide and screw-feed handwheel for the blade to split them along the join.
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9th Mar 2023, 4:41 pm | #3 |
Nonode
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Spalding, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK.
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Re: PYE PFX Battery Renovation.
About 40 years ago, holding a couple of croc clips onto a PF2 hattery and giving it a quick boost from my bench psu, it blew the lid off. Hurt my hand as well. Foolish things we did!
Rob
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9th Mar 2023, 8:40 pm | #4 |
Hexode
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Near Lichfield, Staffordshire, UK, most of the time and Crystal Palace, S London, some of the time..
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Re: PYE PFX Battery Renovation.
Thank you!
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9th Mar 2023, 9:32 pm | #5 |
Nonode
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, UK.
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Re: PYE PFX Battery Renovation.
Not many PFX batteries are still any good.
They lasted better than the DEAC Mae Wests for the PF70 series all the same. P5000 were also bad. Here is a homebrew pack made from Maplin NiMh cells and the charging dolly it needed. Maybe I still have it? An effort at restuffing a PFX one also. Gaffa tape is your friend. Last edited by Jon_G4MDC; 9th Mar 2023 at 9:52 pm. |