Well the battery and power supply problem
was rectified by a ham that lives about 30 miles from the repeater. He
recently began using the repeater. He over heard me talking to another
ham telling him what happened to the power supply, and jumped in and donated
three large capacity lead-acid batteries that came out of a telephone tower
with the power supply to charge them. He is going to and set them up here
in a few days. Luck would have it, that his dad and him are both
commercial broadcast technicians and is offering his services on the repeater
technical end. I do appreciate all the support regarding this.
Mathew
From: Gran Clark
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Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005
11:12 AM
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Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder]
Powering the Repeater With Marine Batteries
Mathew
You should at least check the option BB on the Astron. The backup option
gives 13.8V current limited at about 3A. We just replaced four deep cycle
batteries in parallel after about seven years of service being kept alive with
the BB option.
Gran K6RIF
At 09:11 1/21/2005, you wrote:
Last night my power supply took a dump! Good thing for
backups.
Anyways, what I am wanting to do is put 3 marine batteries together
to run the power for the repeater with a charger to charge the
batteries. If I use a 12 Volt Car charger, do I risk the chance of
noise, or would the batteries filter that. What would be a good
source to charge these batteries? The power supply that will be
taking the place of the worthless Pyramid supply will be an Astron
52 Amp Rack Mount Supply. I have heard in the past that batteries
have been charged with these power supplies, but not sure if this if
true or not. Any ideas? Thanks.
Mathew
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