Bruce, I read on-line Amazon question on the battery asking about simultaneously drawing from the battery while charger plugged in. The answer, from Bioenno themselves, was that this should not be done. The charger and using the battery should not be done simultaneously.
Is your battery different in that you can charge it while using it? 73, phil > On Jul 25, 2018, at 11:36 AM, Bruce W2SE <[email protected]> wrote: > > I use KX3 at home barefoot too (SOTA Chaser, mostly QRP). BLF1206 with > charger plugged in. I had to loop the KX3 DC power cord through a medium > sized Type 31 ferrite snap-on core to kill the noise from the Bioenno > charger. With this DIY choke in place, I can't detect any difference between > charger plugged in and unplugged (eg battery only). > > On 25-Jul-18 14:15, Phil Hystad via Elecraft wrote: >> Actually, I see that Bioenne Power supplies a charger along with the 20Ah >> battery. >> >> >>> On Jul 25, 2018, at 11:12 AM, Phil Hystad via Elecraft >>> <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Jim, >>> >>> Thanks to you and the others who replied with useful information. I will >>> probably get >>> one of the batteries, probably buy the Bioenne charger too. >>> >>> 73, phil >>> >>>> On Jul 25, 2018, at 11:03 AM, Jim Brown <[email protected]> >>>> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 7/25/2018 9:38 AM, Phil Hystad via Elecraft wrote: >>>>> Has anyone operated a KX3 with the 100-watt KXPA100 using LiPO3 (or other >>>>> Li chemistry) batteries. If so, what was the battery brand, number of >>>>> cells or AH rating, and performance and at what power levels. >>>> Yes, we ran that combo while activating grids CM86 and CM79 using the 20Ah >>>> Bioenne Power LiFePO4 batteries. I own one, W6JTI owns two. One of them >>>> got us through about 6 hours at CM79 running MSK144 and FT8, using the >>>> strategy of not calling CQ. Instead, I was nearby acting as pilot to Ping >>>> Jockey and the cluster system. >>>> >>>> For nearly two years, I've been using a 100Ah Bioenne battery to run a >>>> pair of K3s for SO2R. Bionenne caters to the ham market, and is good to >>>> deal with. >>>> >>>> 73, Jim K9YC >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________________________ >>>> Elecraft mailing list >>>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>>> <http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft> >>>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm <http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm> >>>> Post: mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> >>>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net <http://www.qsl.net/> >>>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>>> <http://www.qsl.net/donate.html> >>>> Message delivered to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> Elecraft mailing list >>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>> <http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft> >>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm <http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm> >>> Post: mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net <http://www.qsl.net/> >>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>> <http://www.qsl.net/donate.html> >>> Message delivered to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> <http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft> >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm <http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm> >> Post: mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net <http://www.qsl.net/> >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> <http://www.qsl.net/donate.html> >> Message delivered to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> > ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
