PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-568
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 568
MARCH 2000
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Rechargeable Batteries . . .
Battery
Adapter
NSN
5940-01-427-
BB-390
AP-390
9110
(J-6358/P)
BB-388
AP-388
8601
(J-6357/P)
BB-516A
AP-516
9183
(J-6356/P)
BB-503A
AP-503
9247
(J-6355/P)
BB-2847
AP-2847
9278
(J-6354/P)
AP-503
AP-388
The power supplies are not interchangeable. However, when your DS orders a
replacement power supply for the PP-8444/U, they’ll get an upgrade kit to
convert it to a PP-8444A/U.
You can also power these chargers using the J-6363, 24-volt vehicular cable,
NSN 5940-01-427-9395, that lets the charger operate from a vehicle’s NATO
slave receptacle.
Until recently, you would wait
around 2 hours to charge up another
set of batteries on the PP-8444. Now
there is a multi-station adapter, J-6518/
U, NSN 5940-01-467-1176, that will
let you line up 8 batteries. Two batter-
ies charge every 2 hours until all 8 are
charged.
To use the multistation adapter with
either PP-8444, you’ll need 4 individual
battery adapters in any combination
you choose.
AP-390
AP-516
AP-2847
PP-8444A/U battery charger
veryone needs a home, a place to kick back after a long, hard day and get
recharged for the next day’s battle.
Rechargeable batteries need a home, too, a place to rest, to let the remaining
energy of the day drain away and to be recharged for the next day’s battle.
Without recharging, your batteries will run down and die.
The home for rechargeable batteries is the battery charger. There are three in
the Army system: two universal portable battery chargers, PP-8444/U, NSN
6130-01-427-9604, and PP-8444A/U, NSN 6130-01-443-0970; and the new
charger-on-the-move (COTM), PP-
8481/U, NSN 6130-01-467-9465.
All three chargers recharge the BB-
390A, BB-388, BB-503A, BB-516A,
and the BB-2847 rechargeable batter-
ies. The two portable chargers can also
recharge the BB-557 and the BB-2600.
PP-8444/U and PP-8444A/U
These chargers are identical except
for their power supply. The PP-8444/
U operates on 90-125 volts AC. The
PP-8444A/U operates on 100–250 volts
AC.
WHEW-
I’M BEAT!
I CAN’T
WAIT
TO GET ON THAT
RECHARGER
!
YEAH, I JUST
HOPE THEY HAVE
MY
ADAPTER
.
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