Matt, Not a direct answer to your question, but take a look at my website www.qsl.net or mirror at http://earthlink.net/~w3fpr article on using a Smartcharger with the internal battery. It will keep your battery safely charged and will power the QRP K2 just fine. A separate power supply is not necessary with this arrangement, and your battery life will be improved. My internal battery finally failed after 5 years of good service, and I believe it failed at that point only because I left it on the shelf without use or float-charging for over 3 months.
73, Don W3FPR > -----Original Message----- > > Hi folks, > > My K2, #4973 (until this afternoon, I thought it was #4978) is coming > along fine. I had the weekend off, so I assembled the control board > yesterday, the front panel today and I've had a good start on the RF > board. > > What I need is a good quality power supply. I'm a new ham, so I don't > have a parts box worthy of the name. I'll need something to power the > K2 and recharge its internal battery. > > Is there a consensus on power supplies? You know, the power supply > every one would buy if they had to start from scratch? Failing that, > is there a power supply I definitely don't want to buy? > > Any suggestions greatly appreciated. > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.6.2 - Release Date: 6/4/2005 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
