Testing Batteries after Winter Storage
Whenever we are out on the boats and especially while we are at the lake house, we regularly use two high powered walkie-talkies and a base radio for communications. Cellphones have no service in most of the areas we frequent so these radios are necessary for general communications as well as emergencies. These radios have been in storage all winter so none of the batteries have had a charge in many months. Hopefully the batteries are still good and will hold a charge. I dug the radios out of one of our closets this morning. I'll let the batteries charge for about 24 hours before putting them through a series of tests. Hopefully, we're good to go... If not, I'll need to order some new batteries very soon... Next up... camera batteries... Update: The batteries in these radios seem to be fine. I charged them for 24 hours and see no power problems. Now, I just need to remember how to use all the features on these things!