Batteries and energy
Every recorded energy item, each with its own fit list.
Energy items
Is this part number the right battery for this handset?
A battery part number is easy to quote and easy to get wrong: it looks like a commodity item, but it carries a chemistry and a voltage that have to match the handset. The fit list is the check — provided you read it for what it actually is.
Energy items are the part of a two-way radio order most likely to be substituted, because a battery looks interchangeable in a way a radio does not. It is not. A part number carries a chemistry and a voltage that have to match the handset it is going into, and where the handset is a listed build the energy item has to be listed too. This note is about performing that check honestly, including the part of the check that cannot be completed from a catalogue alone.
What this note does not do
This note explains how the decision is made. It does not quote a cycle life, a price, a stock position or a compatibility ruling for an energy item not recorded here, because the site does not hold one it can evidence. Anything shown as unconfirmed on the catalogue pages is unconfirmed here too.
Confirm the position with your regulator, your site authority or your freight forwarder before you commit to an order.How to use this note
- Take the part number exactly as it appears on the quotation, including any suffix.
- Open that energy item on this site and read its recorded chemistry, rated capacity and voltage against the handset you intend to put it in.
- Read its fit list in the direction that matters. The list says which handsets the item is published for; it does not say the item is the only one that fits them, nor that a handset absent from the list cannot take it.
- Where the pairing is not recorded here, send the part number and the handset identifier together rather than substituting one for the other.
The recorded energy items, with their fit lists measured
Each energy item is published with the manufacturer's own fit list against it, carried across verbatim. The table below measures that list against the identifiers this catalogue records, so both halves of the picture can be read together rather than one at a time.
| Energy item | Names on its fit list | Of those, recorded here | Not in this catalogue |
|---|---|---|---|
| PMNN4489 | 24 | 4 | 20 |
| PMNN4490 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| PMNN4486 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| NNTN8359 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| NNTN4497 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| HNN9010 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| PMNN4418BR | 42 | 6 | 36 |
| PMNN4487A | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| PMNN4424AR | 14 | 0 | 14 |
| PMNN4440AR | 9 | 2 | 7 |
| PMNN4511A | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| PMNN4080AR | 13 | 0 | 13 |
| PMNN4077C | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| PMNN4081AR | 9 | 0 | 9 |
Measured from the catalogue at build time. A fit list is the manufacturer’s own and is carried verbatim; the middle column counts only the names this catalogue also records as an identifier. Across the catalogue 8 of the 100 recorded identifiers appear on at least one fit list, so the remaining 92 have no energy item recorded against them here — an absence of record, not a finding of incompatibility.
Two gaps, and neither of them means the item does not fit
Read the middle and last columns together rather than either one alone, because they describe opposite directions of the same gap. The middle column is the part of a fit list this catalogue can act on: handsets recorded here which the manufacturer publishes the item against. The last column is the part it cannot — handset names the manufacturer fits the item to which this site does not carry as an identifier at all.
The second gap does not stop at the fit lists. Most identifiers recorded on this site have no energy item recorded against them in this direction, which is why a radio page can legitimately show no battery listing even where one exists. That is a coverage limit of the catalogue, and it is stated on the page where the absence appears rather than left for the reader to interpret.
An absent pairing is a gap in the record, not a compatibility ruling
An energy item that does not appear against a handset on this site means the pairing has not been recorded here. It does not mean the item is wrong for that handset, and it does not mean the handset takes no energy item at all. Reading the absence of a record as a negative finding is the same class of error as reading a regional counterpart name as a substitution.
Where a pairing decides an order, send both identifiers and have the pairing confirmed rather than inferred from the absence of a record.What a fit list cannot check for you
Three things that have to be settled outside the fit list
- The chemistry and voltage the handset requires. A fit list is about fitment, not about whether the item is the right choice for the duty cycle.
- Whether a listed build needs a listed energy item. Where the handset is a hazardous-area build, the energy item is part of that approval rather than an accessory to it.
- How the item travels. Loose lithium cells are a transport question with their own documentation, and carriers frequently refuse them outside equipment.
Not covered here
- Cycle life, charge retention or a service life for any recorded energy item.
- Price, stock position or lead time.
- Whether a supplied item is genuine, new or refurbished. Condition is stated per quotation line, not inferred from a part number.
- A compatibility ruling for an energy item this catalogue does not record.
What to put in the first message
Every one of these removes a round trip. The enquiry page composes a brief containing them; you send it from your own mail or messaging app.
- Destination country — this decides the approved variant and the marking.
- The frequency range you are licensed to use, in MHz.
- Quantity per site, and whether spares are included in that number.
- Operating environment, if it is classified (hazardous area, mine, tunnel).
- Whether the units must arrive programmed, and if so the channel plan.
- The part number exactly as offered, including any suffix.
- The handset identifier it is intended for, and the quantity per handset.
- Whether the handset is a hazardous-area build, which decides whether the energy item is part of an approval.
- Where the items will be charged, and whether they will travel loose or inside equipment.
Questions this note answers
Not necessarily. It means the pairing is not recorded on this site, which is a statement about the record rather than about the item. Send the part number and your model identifier together and the pairing can be confirmed.
Capacity is a recorded value and the catalogue carries what the source document states. Whether a larger item is appropriate depends on shift length, and on whether the item is part of a listed build's approval — so it is a question for the specification rather than for the catalogue.
Because an energy item is not a radio. Asking a battery for its frequency band and channel capacity produces a table of values that can never be recorded, since they do not apply to the product. Energy items state chemistry, capacity, voltage, ingress protection, intrinsic safety and the ordering code instead.
No. They are the manufacturer's published fit lists, carried against the item verbatim. What this site adds is the measurement — which of those names it also records as an identifier — so that the difference between the two is visible rather than implied.
Where to go from here
Import and admission checklist
How energy items travel, and who decides whether they may.
XPR, XiR, DGP and DP
Why a name is not an ordering code — the same trap, in the handsets.
Buyer notes are written from the catalogue and the published reference pages. They carry no parameter the site cannot evidence, and an unconfirmed value stays unconfirmed here too. BaltiGo is a trading and distribution company supplying Motorola two-way radio hardware into markets worldwide, and does not claim to be a Motorola authorised dealer or official distributor.
Enquiry
Send the configuration, not just the model name
Band, destination and quantity decide whether a quotation is usable in one round or three. Compose the brief and it carries all three.