--- In [email protected], Joe Montierth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The simplest way is just to get the IOTA supply and > float it across the battery. Thats it, nothing else > needed. Get an IOTA big enough to power whatever you > have, and still have some left over for charging. You > don't need (or want) diodes, resistors, or relays.
I have one caveat with the Iota. In my system it resulted in a "horrible noise" because the repeater itself is located about 10' away from the antenna, and the Iota has some significant energy internally at about 600kHz. That mixed with my TX, and created two sidebands, one of which fed back into my RX. It would come and go dependent on load/temperature. If you're mounted far enough away, then that shouldn't be a problem.
