[digitalradio] Re: Emergency power digital station options for Field Day ?

2008-05-21 Thread Andrew O'Brien
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Joe Veldhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would suggest you just use your car. The radio will obviously run off the battery directly. If the laptop's battery voltage is close to 14V you can probably wire up a power cable to go directly to the car battery,

[digitalradio] Re: Emergency power digital station options for Field Day ?

2008-05-21 Thread Andrew O'Brien
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Sholto Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy if you don't mind a little leg power you could try the Freeplay Weza: http://store.sundancesolar.com/frfrwe.html I bought one a while back and I can run the FT-897 on it for quite sometime before needing to

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Emergency power digital station options for Field Day ?

2008-05-21 Thread Sholto Fisher
Andy, From a flat battery you can get all the LED's to come on in around 15-20 minutes of pedaling. It depends on how hard you make the flywheel spin. You don't have to recharge that way though, only in the field because you can also plug in a wall wart at home and charge it up beforehand.