Sound advice! I have two PS. An Astron RS-70M and a Limiting unit, a Tenma 72-420. Gets just about every job done that I need!
John Hymes La Rue Communications 10 S. Aurora Street Stockton, CA 95202 ----- Original Message ----- From: wd8chl To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] General Electric VHF MVS Series Mobile On 3/24/2010 11:50 AM, La Rue Communications wrote: > So basically, in a sense - to rig this up with two alligator clips > and my Astron Power Supply, black/negative to the ground and > positive/red to the hot. Assuming this does not blow this mobile up, > I want to err on the side of caution before I try to rig this up, it > should power this unit on, correct? > > Thanks! Use a PS that has some sort of current limiting, like an Astron VS-xx. Throttle the current limit back quite a ways, then clip the negative to the CHASSIS of the radio. Touch the positive to different pins on hte connector. If you touch the hot to the ground lead on the connector, the current limit will kick in. But it will be impossible to reverse polarity the radio that way. Shorting the PS to ground is the worst that can happen.
