Thanks for the head’s up. I ended up grabbing a couple of 5R’s, and did not realize that the 3R has a battery setup similar to a cell phone.
If you go by the FAQ written by Ed Griffin, at the bottom of page 9, it sounds like if you have the correct battery, it should still have a protection IC in it, but he also confirms that the base has no controller, so it’s a good head’s up for anyone that may have grabbed those units from Fasttech. Anyway, here is some more information from that FAQ on this subject that may be of interest to some:
Edit: I shouldn’t have said, “written by Ed Griffin” (he owns Wouxun.us), it says on the cover it was a collaboration project, so it would be more accurate to say he distributed it (and probably had a large part in the collaboration as well).