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Maestro battery and CHOPPY audio

N8AUM
N8AUM Member ✭✭
edited July 2019 in SmartSDR for Windows
I just swapped the battery while sitting outside with my Maestro for the past 4hrs and with a freshly charged battery the audio became very "choppy" after swapping. i did not restart Maestro but went to WIFI settings and restarted that way and it's ok again. I got about 4hrs out of the larger battery before it started to get low when I did the swap. Was I wrong by not shutting down ? Running latest ver of SSDR when this happened.
TNX in advance for any help or thoughts!
73 N8AUM  Vidas

Comments

  • Steven WA8Y
    Steven WA8Y Member ✭✭
    edited July 2019
    The Maestro's internal battery is there for hot swapping. My experience, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Maybe our internal battery lacked a full charge and that explains it. Or maybe we interfered with the wifi signal while swapping batteries.
  • David-N5PSM
    David-N5PSM Member ✭✭
    edited July 2019
    Did you check to see that rate and FPS are still turned down in "display" ?
  • N8AUM
    N8AUM Member ✭✭
    edited July 2019
    Its almost brand new but after a month it got bricked while doing an upgrade so it got sent back to mommy about a month ago to get re imaged and one of the encoders got bent during shipment which mommy fixed, THANK YOU FLEX !!! Anyways, I keep it plugged in even when its not on to keep the internal batt charged. From what I understand the internal batt should last couple minutes? took me about 15 seconds to swap the batt and it from what I remember the Maestro was working  fine until it switched to the freshly charged external batt. and thats when the audio became "choppy" 
  • N8AUM
    N8AUM Member ✭✭
    edited July 2019
    I usually run the the FPS set at about half way

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