Installing The Battery Pack; To Charge The Battery Pack; A Word About Recharge- Able Batteries - VTech vt1733 User Manual

INSTALLING THE BATTERY PACK

The Handset of your CB 1733 is
powered by a rechargeable battery
pack. It charges automatically when-
ever the Handset is in the Base Unit.
You should charge the battery pack for
16 hours when you first receive your
phone. You'll know the battery pack
needs charging when:
• The low battery message is
displayed:
• The Handset seems completely
dead, the LCD is completely clear
and does not activate when you
press the keys.
TO CHARGE THE BATTERY
PACK
To charge the battery pack, place the
Handset in the Base Unit.
CHARGING indicator will light to show
the Handset is seated properly and the
battery pack is charging. It is recom-
mended that the battery pack be
charged for at least 16 hours initially.
Afterwards, 8 hours of maintenance
charging should be sufficient. You can
use your telephone before that with
diminished capacity, but it is best to
charge the battery pack fully. It will take
several recharge cycles to maximize
the charge capacity of your battery
pack. The maximum battery life be-
tween charges is 7 hours of continuous
talk time or 14 days of stand by.
Alternatively, if the spare battery pack
has been charging in the Base Unit,
simply exchange the drained Handset
battery pack with the fully charged re-
placement battery pack from the Base
Unit charger.
Handset battery pack into the Base
Unit charger so that it will charge.
The Base Unit spare battery charger
does NOT charge a battery pack as
quickly as the main Handset battery
charger.
hours.
A WORD ABOUT RECHARGE-
ABLE BATTERIES
Your Ni-Cd battery pack recharges
whenever the Handset is returned to
the Base Unit.
IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO OVER-
CHARGE THE BATTERY PACK
The battery pack can be recharged
many times but if you get a low-battery
The
signal even after 8 hours of charging in
the Base Unit cradle (or 24 hours in the
Base Unit spare battery charger), the
battery pack(s) should be replaced.
To purchase replacement battery
packs, call Customer Service at
800-877-1624.
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Place the drained
A full charge requires 24