Mark Baugh wrote:
Hi guys,
I am gearing up for a portable station for emergency
communications and have decided to use my K2/100 and
KAT100 combo. I want to be able to power it with
batteries, if the need arises. Have any of you "high
tech" Elecrafters used a battery to power a K2/100? I
don't know whether to chose a deep-discharge marine,
an SLA/gel cell or AGM battery. Let's not beat this
horse to death, but I would like some help on what the
best choice would be. I've been thinking about using
something on the order of a 50-60 Ahr size.
I used my K2/100 with an 80 ahr deep-discharge marine battery over field
day weekend and it worked out well - left the rig running all weekend,
made 350 or so CW QSOs, and voltage was down to 11.2 by the end of the
weekend so it would have gone a while longer. I used that battery
because I happened to have an extra one - it's sitting inside a plastic
Wal-Mart battery box, but because it's in the house I'm going to swap it out for
an AGM battery - no fumes, no maintenance, no way to spill acid.
--
/Paul Heller W3PH
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http://www.his.com
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