Thanks for the replies about charging my 18 AH gel cell. I was a little impatient waiting on my 750 mA charger get the battery topped off. I left it on yesterday evening when I stepped out and came back 2 or 3 hours later. The charger's green light was on.
I did some reading on gel cells, in addition to the replies. It seems that my power supply, an Astron RS-35A, wouldn't have charged the battery any faster anyway. My $30 charger from HRO will allow me to tickle charge the battery and prevent overcharging. But I think I'll check out the 1 A charger from A&A Engineering. Anaheim is very local to me and their chargers have a good reputation in the ham community. One responder said it would take 24 hours for that charger to fully charge my battery. 750 mA / 18 A = 24. I guess that is where the 24 hours comes from. My charger is a Deltran Battery Tender Junior from HRO. HRO represented it as coming from powerwerx.com. Powerwerx has an larger model, 1.25 A. Its too bad HRO didn't have that model in stock. I do wonder about using the gel cell with my KPA100 option. I don't need to run 100 watts by any means. But 10 watts is a little too low for me. I wonder how the 18 AH gel cell, a Power Sonic, will work and last with the K2 at about 30 watts. I'd been tickled to death to have had 30 watts when my power was out. I don't know if the KPA100 looses efficiency at 30 watts versus 100 watts. Just curious. Again thanks for the comments! I still welcome more. 73, Steve N6VL _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
