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Originally Posted by Twilight2000v3MM
Remember guys as long as the voltage and AMperage is the same as the standard battery why could you not make a battery to work with those radios?
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You're right. I would let a group of characters with levels high enough in scrounging an electronics to try the recharging process using scavenged materials. Lucky military groups could keep in their power old batteries rechargers for an specific radio battery type. These rechargers are able to recharge simultaneously a variable number of batteries of the same type from the normal electrical pre-war supply. Of course, in T2K this electrical supply must be obtained from a normal electrical generator. But a power generator is a common device in the military, specially when talking about a units like Signals o Engineer Company. It's possible that the rated voltage output of an electrical generator differs from one nation to another. But this can be arranged with an electrical transformer (that can be implemented, if needed, using retrieved materials from electrical drives, etc. Again,
scrounging and
electronics would probe priceless skills).
Anyway, Graebarde is right and ultimately, chemistry will be the only response to the lost of effectiveness of a battery.
Ah! And if anyone has ever used a manual battery recharger (there are radio devices with such a complement, with a crank attached to it), perhaps has tested in a physical way the decaying rate of an old battery. When battery is low you need much more arm exercise to obtain (or to keep) enough power to operate with and old battery than with new one!