I am looking for some helpful suggestions here. In my previous life, I had a take home car and Motorola XTS5000 radio. I took care of the Chevrolet and my XTS5000 radio and batteries.
Fast forward to today. I work part-time at a college public safety organization that doesn't seem to care much about either the flashlight batteries or the batteries for the Kenwood NX-300K4 portable transceivers. As near as I can tell, when/if they get some additional new batteries for either device, they don't discard the old batteries and they are still cycled through in-service equipment.
I am just curious what other organizations do, or should do, to deal with these issues? It would seem that the simplest thing is to mark them with a date they go into service and remove them from service at some point in the future. I realize that we have simple charges, by that I mean not Motorola IMPRES chargers. I realize that I will not be the most favored person by suggesting that they spend money, but flashlights and radios are the two most important pieces of equipment that we have and use here.
How would you deal with this issue? How should we be dealing with this issue?
Fast forward to today. I work part-time at a college public safety organization that doesn't seem to care much about either the flashlight batteries or the batteries for the Kenwood NX-300K4 portable transceivers. As near as I can tell, when/if they get some additional new batteries for either device, they don't discard the old batteries and they are still cycled through in-service equipment.
I am just curious what other organizations do, or should do, to deal with these issues? It would seem that the simplest thing is to mark them with a date they go into service and remove them from service at some point in the future. I realize that we have simple charges, by that I mean not Motorola IMPRES chargers. I realize that I will not be the most favored person by suggesting that they spend money, but flashlights and radios are the two most important pieces of equipment that we have and use here.
How would you deal with this issue? How should we be dealing with this issue?