Re: [Elecraft] What battery to use?

2005-07-16 Thread Charles Greene
Mark, I used the batteries from my boat for field for my K2/100. They are deep discharge marine/RV batteries, one about 60 AH and the other about 80 AH. I also use an old car battery in the shack which I keep on float at 13.8 volts. Some comments. The K2 which will work at lower

[Elecraft] What battery to use?

2005-07-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not exactly for your back-packing needs. YIKES! PVX-1040T Concorde 12 Volt 100 Amp Hour, BCI Group 27, valve regulated sealed lead acid battery. 65 LBS CON-30506 PRICE $149.97 ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must

RE: [Elecraft] What battery to use?

2005-07-16 Thread designer
Wimp. :-) :-) Not exactly for your back-packing needs. YIKES! PVX-1040T Concorde 12 Volt 100 Amp Hour, BCI Group 27, valve regulated sealed lead acid battery. 65 LBS CON-30506 PRICE $149.97 ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to:

Re: [Elecraft] What battery to use?

2005-07-16 Thread Mike B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not exactly for your back-packing needs. YIKES! PVX-1040T Concorde 12 Volt 100 Amp Hour, BCI Group 27, valve regulated sealed lead acid battery. 65 LBS Naw, but that's not what the original poster was looking for. Switching to these batteries is actually a

[Elecraft] What battery to use?

2005-07-15 Thread Mark Baugh
Hi guys, I am gearing up for a portable station for emergency communications and have decided to use my K2/100 and KAT100 combo. I want to be able to power it with batteries, if the need arises. Have any of you high tech Elecrafters used a battery to power a K2/100? I don't know whether to

[Fwd: Re: [Elecraft] What battery to use?]

2005-07-15 Thread Paul Heller
Mark Baugh wrote: Hi guys, I am gearing up for a portable station for emergency communications and have decided to use my K2/100 and KAT100 combo. I want to be able to power it with batteries, if the need arises. Have any of you high tech Elecrafters used a battery to power a K2/100? I don't

Re: [Elecraft] What battery to use?

2005-07-15 Thread Mike Morrow
Mark wrote: I am gearing up for a portable station for emergency communications and have decided to use my K2/100 and KAT100 combo. I want to be able to power it with batteries, if the need arises...I've been thinking about using something on the order of a 50-60 Ahr size. I've been playing

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Elecraft] What battery to use?]

2005-07-15 Thread Paul Heller
Robert Tellefsen wrote: Paul What is an AGM battery? Don't think I've heard that term before. Thanks and 73 Bob N6WG AGM = Absorbed Glass Mat As I understand it, the original application was for military aircraft - they can be mounted in any position and don't give off hydrogen under

Re: [Elecraft] What battery to use?

2005-07-15 Thread G3VVT
In a message dated 15/07/05 15:37:09 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had one rig that wouldn't function much below about 11.0 volts due to that effect. Under transmit loads on the battery and with the voltage drop in the power cables, 11 vdc at the rig happens a lot sooner

Re: [Elecraft] What battery to use?

2005-07-15 Thread Bill NY9H
i also used a 84 ah for field day k2/100... with a 50 watt solar panel... at night it dropped to 11.4 before the panel brought it back to 12.4 the next morning after the sun hit the panel for a few hours... it was slowing climbing up this was a gota station,.,,,so xmt duty cycle was