All I suffered the battery failure most of us have or will soon experience. Found a source but it has been out of stock for months. Who knows when they will be back on stock. So I pulled my battery out so I would not suffer a worse fate of that bad battery leaking. Stuck it on my bench for a good month. I thought what the heck and carefully took it apart. No big deal three lipo batteries in series with a battery management board on top. The replacement batteries were easy. Replacement shrink wrap sleeve easy. Soldering iron got many. It was the battery management board I worried about. Long story short don’t throw away your old battery if you ever want to rebuild your battery. The original battery management board will reset and the total cost is half of what the stores are selling them for when and if you can get them in stock. Plus I got the added advantage of getting 4ah batteries vs the stock 3.7ah. I took pictures and figured out how to wake up the battery management board. -- Tom AE5NF

Could someone send me a screen shot of their FT8 radio setting? TIA

Well, it happened to me, one day perfect battery then I put the radio away I come back and now completely dead after sitting in the box awaiting my next field trip. Very frustrating to say the least. Since "no user repairable items inside" never scared me and I am sure most of the folks on this board either... I took the battery out to ensure that it was not festering, like an iPhone battery to the point it crushes the motherboard. In fact, the battery looked fine. I know, looks are deceiving. So, I tried to charge it... nope. So, I have this dead battery on my desk and an xacto knife within reach, I said heck with it and cut the casing to find as I suspected 3, 3.7ish Lithium batteries in series with a cell balancer. I unsoldered the balancer and immediately the batteries sighed a sigh of relief and came up.... So, I charged them with a "real battery charger" and low and behold after 4 charges and discharges I have full power. So, the batteries are fine… the balancer is making us buy battery's we can’t find and don’t need. I have included my exploded (pun intended) picture of the battery pack and a closeup of the balancer with the manufacturer’s kindly buffed off IC tops. There is a way to wake up an upset battery balancer. Can anyone look at the close up of this balancer and tell me where I might need to hit it with some voltage to reset it? I'll let everyone know if it works and maybe save a few batteries from a land fill... or recycle box?. Thanks -- Tom AE5NF