BTECH, BaoFeng BL-5 Battery Eliminator for for BF-F8HP, UV-5X3, and UV-5R Radios

Great life. It works for hours. Just wish I had an outdoor antenna to extend my range. It is used mostly inside. Do you have any suggestion for apartment dwellers that are enclosed with no roof access. Trying to figure out how to configure an outside antenna with side slide windows. Any suggestions w/b white helpful.

Kinda bummed about it only being one in the package but its durable, long lasting and easy use. Fits my ham radio just fine.

If you are going to buy a BaoFeng radio do yourself a favor and get it from BTECH. It is the USA version and well worth the extra money it may cost. I have two of them but did try the Chinese version and it is not the same so it was returned. This is an awesome radio and I highly recommend it. I am a HAM and GMRS licensed operator.

It is expensive for what it is, but the product seems legit. It works as described.

As others have reported, the battery pack would not snap into place on BTECH UV-5X3 (same as the UV-5R). I had to carefully file the plastic in a few places to make it fit on the radio. Also as others have reported, I found that the contacts inside the battery pack are poorly designed with very minimal spacing between the positive and negative contacts, resulting in the possibility of the contacts shorting together. Besides that problem, the metal battery contacts are made from very thin metal with very little spring to them, and are poorly supported by the plastic body of the case resulting in intermittent contact between the battery terminals and the contacts in the case. I also found that some makes of NIMH battery do not have long enough positive battery contacts to extend far enough into the plastic of the battery case to make contact with the metal contacts of the case, so only certain brands of battery make contact in the case. Ive spent about 4 hours trying to make this thing work reliably. Great idea - bad execution. I cant recommend buying this battery holder. With all the problems this thing has, I am surprised that BTECH sells it as it is.

I plan on using the rechargeable battery that comes with the radio most of the time. But I like the idea of having back up power just in case. The first thing I did when the AA battery adapter pack arrived was try it out to make sure it works as promised, and it did. The nice thing about AA batteries is that they are widely available. Where as the proprietary battery that comes with radio has a limited life span. Also like the fact that the AA pack can use either alkaline or nickel metal hydride batteries, and come with provisions that allow you to use either voltage type battery.

So far so good, charged this fully 8 days ago and it still has one battery bar left. It’s in use as a listening-only scanner most of the day (to my wife’s great dismay) only turned off consistently overnight. I also bought the little USB plug that charges this directly and it seems to work but I’ve only charged the battery once via dock as the beginning of the charge/discharge/repeat process. So far so good.

This exactly what I wanted works so very well

I had to grind it down a bit so the batteries would seat correctly. Otherwise it wouldnt power up.

First, it works as expected in that it replaces your battery (it is a battery eliminator not a charger) and powers your radio from a 12 volt accessory socket. A couple poor design features to be aware of though: The cord is a coiled cord, but the coils are very stiff. At rest it is about 2 feet long, but if you try to stretch it out, by the time you get to three feet it is pulling out of the car socket. I would say that for most people, they would have a lot of trouble talking on the radio with that limitation combined with the fact that at that length you are playing tug of war if it stays plugged in. Also the cord comes out of the bottom of the battery adapter, which means you cannot stand your radio up. Not a concern for car use but in emergency use where you might have to be on 12 volt power indoors, you cannot stand up your radio. This means your antenna is operating at well below maximum efficiency. It seems that just a little forethought and beta testing of this product would have made it a MUCH better product with little or no change to cost.