Continuous “trickle charging” is neither necessary nor desired if you use low self-discharge NiMH cells. The preferred ones around here are Envelop Pros — 2550 mah, and they will retain 75-85% of their charge for a year or more in storage. They cost a bit more than the cheap stuff, but you don’t want to use high self-discharge cells anyway.
Typically, I let my internal pack deplete to around 9v or a bit less, and then set an overnight charge for 12 hours. The KX3 has a smart charger, so it won’t cook your cells. Even if you normally use an external battery pack or power supply, it’s a good thing to have the internal batteries for a “light” portable operation or if the DX is so good you drain your external battery pack :-) Makes life a lot easier, and there’s less to haul around. And yes, you DO make use of the 3 KHz roofing filter on SSB, and it is of value. Grant NQ5T K3 #2091, KX3 #8342 > > 2) I would have skipped the Battery Charger - Had I known that the charger > had to be manually enabled every time (i.e. its not always ‘trickle > charging’) and that you had to ‘guess’ for how long it needed to be on, I > would have skipped it as I don’t see a whole lot of value in that. > 3) I’d delay getting the Roofing Filters. I’m not sure I’m even using them as > I’m not a CW operator. > ______________________________________________________________ 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
