Only Motorola Original Products are performance matched to ensure the same high standards of quality that you enjoy with your Motorola two-way radio.  When you see the Motorola Original logo, you know the products are built and tested to meet the toughest standards.  Tough Motorola Original Products protect your communication system from the hazards of everyday life — you can count on it.

Motorola’s batteries and radios also conform to the “intrinsically safe” standard:
certified and rated by an approval agency as intrinsically safe for use in classified
hazardous areas.

Built Tough

All batteries are not alike.  Motorola starts with premium grade battery cells from
reliable suppliers.   These premium battery cells provide high capacity, long cycle
life, low impedance, a wide operating temperature range (-30C° to +50°C) and the
best shock resistance available.   They are tough enough to survive sudden impacts
without increasing impedance, and they are also more uniform, which means you can
count on the same high energy, high number of charge cycles and durability with every
Motorola battery you buy.

A common source of battery failure lies in the connecting circuitry between battery
components: Motorola uses soft film copper flex circuitry which has the ability
to “give” in the case of an impact  — unlike the thin wires found in other battery
brands.  This circuitry also enables the most efficient flow of electrical current, reducing impedance and improving performance.   And Motorola solders, rather than welds,
battery components to the flex circuits, which reduces aging and impedance build-up.

Battery shock absorbers and filler hold all battery components in place. 
Motorola uses a variety of pliable shock absorbing materials to protect the
cell back and flex circuitry.  By damping vibration inside the battery housing,
these materials reduce component damage during sudden impact. 
(Often, competitive batteries are assembled by hand, leading to a less consistent weld.)

For battery casings, Motorola only uses tough polycarbonate plastic, which provides
maximum protection against battery failures from falls or sudden impacts. 
Polycarbonate has significantly more tensile strength (the ability to resist lateral forces)
and flexural strength (the ability to withstand flexing or bending) than ABS plastic.

Motorola’s ISO 9000 manufacturing environment, powered by state-of-the-art,
computer-controlled equipment, ensures automated, monitored and consistent
assembly for every battery produced.  (Often, competitive batteries are assembled
by hand, leading to lower quality construction.)  And Motorola batteries are performance-matched to the corresponding Motorola two-way wireless radio, optimizing all parts of the communications system: radios, batteries, antennas and reception/transmission circuits.

Tested Tough

As part of Motorola's manufacturing process, two-way radio battery models must pass grueling Accelerated Life Testing (ALT) that includes a rain test  (steady rainfall and wind for 30 minutes on every surface), a salt fog test (exposure to an atomized salt solution for 48 hours),  a dust test (six hours of dust blowing on all surfaces), a vibration test (up to nine hours of exposure to vibration) and a shock test (18 shocks with a minimum G force of 40 Gs apiece).

In addition to in-line process control during manufacturing, Motorola routinely tests
radios and batteries as a system (within varying levels of expended life cycles)
to make sure they’ll operate within specifications every time you need them.

The results were that Motorola batteries dramatically outperformed competing
batteries from Battery Zone, Honeywell, Power Products and Multiplier.