Ron, Litium batteries are expensive and you cannot recharge them. I'm in the process of building a charging system for my weather station which uses a lithium battery at night and on cloudy days.
I chose a 12V solar panel that charges a 12v lead acid battery which in turn connnects to a device which steps the voltage down to 3.2 volts to power the WX stn when the wx station solar panel can't produce enough to run the station. I won't tell you which WX station I have but the name of it starts with a D. Three volt batteries last about a week or two in it which causes me to have to buy a new battery for between nine and twelve USD and climb up the tower to replace the battery. The WX station I replaced with the one I now have had none of these problems. It charged a 6v lead acid battery directly with a solar panel. The entire system ran off of the 6v battery, which usually lasted about two or three years. Going green can be very expensive. Keep the lead acid storage battery. You'll be glad you did. Amateure Radio Operator N5GE On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 12:38:37 -0500, you wrote: >Are there any solutions for using a Lithium battery instead of a lead >acid brick? > > >On 11/26/2013 12:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> Message: 8 >> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 12:42:25 -0700 >> From: "Gene Ruff"<[email protected]> >> To:<[email protected]> >> Subject: [Elecraft] KX3 and solar panels >> Message-ID: <D554A169E6B846FD94EEAED5D1B971C5@delldesktop> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> I am looking for information on using folding solar panels with my KX3 . >> success stories or sad ones. Thanks G. R. > >______________________________________________________________ >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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
