Yes. You should also consider a 35 to 55 AH (or thereabouts) Gel-Cell battery and a 3 to 4 amp automatic charger. Advantages: (1) Instant emergency power good for several hours, (2) protection against line spikes (surges) and dips (brown-outs), (3) the small charger will make up the "daytime" discharge overnight without needing a much larger main power supply, (5) generally, while system ends to be rather less expensive overall, and (6) the battery acts like a huge ultra-capacitor that absorbs "junk" on the circuit powering the radio which helps with hum issues and such
I ran my entire station from such a system for years. The station consisted of a 100-watt HF rig, a 50-watt 2-meter set, 35 watt UHF set, a Heath WWV receiver/station clock, audio processor, and several accessories, all from a 10-ampere automatic charger and a single Costco deep-cycle Marine battery. Any time I wanted to add something, I just hung it across the battery (I actually used a home-built a DC distribution panel) without worrying about needing to add yet another 12-volt power supply of some type. Also, didn't have to buy them - a savings that adds up to quite a bit after several rigs are added to the station. - Jim, KL7CC On 10/11/2012 3:09 AM, Bill wrote: > <snip> > Should I consider anything other than Astron? > > Thanks, > > Bill W2BLC > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
