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A Few words about batteries...

Your Roberts ecologic-2 radio has been designed to use a choice

of power sources. You may plug it into the mains using the supplied

adaptor, or for listening away from the mains you may use either alkaline

or rechargeable batteries. We do not recommend the use of carbon-zinc

or zinc-chloride batteries.

It is very important that you read the advice and warnings given below.

1) Whichever type of batteries you choose to use, it is very important

that the battery selection switch under the cover is set to the correct

type.

a. If no batteries are ﬁ tted, then set the switch to the Alkaline position.

This position minimises the power consumption when the radio is

powered from the mains.

b. If Alkaline batteries are ﬁ tted, then set the switch to the Alkaline

position.

c. If Rechargeable batteries are ﬁ tted, then set the switch to the

NiMH position. Your radio is designed to use Nickel-Metal-Hydride

rechargeable batteries. No other type of rechargeable battery should

be used in the radio.

2) NEVER mix old and new Alkaline batteries. The old batteries may

suffer damage and leak which will damage your radio and whatever

the radio is standing on.

3) NEVER mix old and new Rechargeable batteries. This may

result in unreliable charging and shortened battery life. Never mix

Rechargeable batteries of different types or capacities even if they

are new.

4) NEVER mix Alkaline and Rechargeable batteries. The recharging of

Alkaline batteries can be very dangerous.

Rechargeable batteries...

Your ecologic-2 radio uses a range of methods to ensure correct and

safe charging of Rechargeable Nickel-Metal-Hydride batteries. These

work to protect your batteries from excessive charge and discharge.

These protections can only work properly if the advice above is followed.

In particular, the radio will not be able to correctly charge batteries if

they are a mixture of different brands, or different ages, or different

capacities.

We recommend that all the rechargeable batteries used in your radio

are bought together as a set. They should always be charged together

and discharged together and not “borrowed” from time to time for other

applications. This will ensure that they give their optimum performance

in your radio.

We recommend that the rechargeable batteries that you use should

be from a quality brand, and should be of at least 2000mAh capacity.

Batteries of this capacity should be able to power your radio for between

10 and 20 hours depending upon the volume of the radio, whether DAB

or FM mode is used (DAB mode uses slightly less power than FM), and

also depending on the condition of the batteries.

Before you ﬁ rst install a new set of rechargeable batteries into your

radio you should ﬁ rst make sure that the battery type switch beneath

the battery cover is in the NiMH position. Install the batteries arranging

them as shown on the back of the radio. Plug the mains adaptor into a

mains socket and then into the radio. While the batteries are charging

the battery indicator should show a red light. When the batteries are fully

charged the indicator will turn off. The time taken to charge the batteries

will depend on how much charging they require. New batteries may be

partly charged when ﬁ rst ﬁ tted, but it is normal for a set of batteries to

take several hours to charge fully (this can be between 5 and 8 hours

depending on the battery capacity and their initial state of charge).

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