Well, you convinced me. :) 30AH battery ordered. Now I just need an antenna and a radio... :)
Juliean KD2JPF. On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Bob <wb4...@gmail.com> wrote: > My radio club, Newport County Radio Club (W1SYE), has been using a Bioenno > Power 30 AH LiFePO4 battery for a few years on many of our Island on the > Air activations as well as Jamboree on the Air. We were running a 100 Watt > HF radio from early morning to sunset at 100 watts output. In all our > activations, we have not come even close to depleting that battery, less > than 20 AH were put back into the battery on charge. Those IOTA events > generate large pileups and hundreds of QSOs over a period of about 8 hours. > > I've also run a K3 on Field Day, at our GOTA station, for 16 hours out of > the 24 hour period using a LiFePO4 battery. During that time hundreds of > QSOs were made at 100 watts. At the time I was using a 60 AH battery, and > the current consumed was 34 AH. It certainly helped that the K3 has low RX > current as well. GOTA is not as demanding as a full blown CW run station, > but it is certainly more than casual operation. > > Our full blown Field Day run station is run off a 9 AH LiFePO4 battery for > a full hour to obtain the Alternative Power Bonus -- In that time, hundreds > of QSOs are made, and the battery is more than up to the task. > > Expect that a hard core contester using a K3 in full run mode will consume > about 8 Amps an hour (8AH). A search and pounce station will consume about > 2 Amps per hour, and casual operation will consume about 1 Amp. All at full > output. > > 73, Bob, WB4SON > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Marc Veeneman <mhv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Oh, yeah. That's the first one I bought from them at the summer sale, > and > > I did complain right away. Those are ideal for powering the KX3 and I > > carry one in the Pelican with my bare KX3. The USB port is used to > power a > > plug-in LED lamp. > > > > I do wish more people making those power supplies could read English. > I'd > > send them a copy of Parts 15 and 17 to read. > > > > It's going to take a concerted effort for all 170,000 of us U.S. hams to > > convince these people. > > > > I even had to hand a cheap transistor radio to a rep from our electrical > > service company to he could listen to the LED power supply he planned to > > install. He was surprised. I was appalled. > > -- > > Marc SDG > > > > > On Dec 21, 2015, at 4:13 PM, Jim Sheldon <w...@cox.net> wrote: > > > > > > It is their BLF-1203T 12 volt, 3 Ah battery. > > > > > > Jim > > > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > > > >> On Dec 21, 2015, at 3:00 PM, Marc Veeneman <mhv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> Which one? I didn't like the EMI from the 10 amp model but could live > > with it if absolutely necessary. > > >> > > >> I've been talking to them about the problem hams have with noise and > we > > might convince them to sell quieter LiFePO4 chargers. > > >> -- > > >> Marc. SDG > > >> > > >>> On Dec 21, 2015, at 3:51 PM, Jim Sheldon <w...@cox.net> wrote: > > >>> > > >>> Unfortunately, my experience with Bioenno's chargers is that they are > > EXTREMELY RFI noisy. In the same house with my KX3 the noise was over > S9! > > >>> > > >>> Sent from my iPad > > >>> > > >>>> > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Elecraft mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > Message delivered to wb4...@gmail.com > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to jga...@gmail.com > -- Juliean Galak jga...@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
