Dave,
The GE Mastr II and Mastr Executive II stations were both available with
optional battery
standby kits that were nothing more than some wire, a fuse holder, and a diode.
Almost every
LBI for a station combination has the information about connecting it into the
power supply.
Be aware th
If the Astron supply has a crowbar installed, the supply will have very
little headroom before the crowbar shuts it down. You can probably change
the detection circuit for the crowbar so that you have a volt or so of
headroom at 15 V.
73
Glenn
WB4UIV
At 08:28 PM 06/07/05, you wrote:
>Can an
At 09:58 PM 6/7/2005, Jamey Wright wrote:
>Good info. I've been contemplating batteries here lately as well. I run a
>Mastr II 30 AMP PS for the repeater. But if I were running a smaller, lower
>powered repeater than the MASTR II, and using an Astron 35 or 50 amp PS for
>power supply and floatin
An off topic question - I'm not at all familiar with the GE Power supplies for
the Mastr II
but was wondering if there is a problem with floating the battery with one of
them? Has
any body online here ever done that? Seems like it would be totally different
than with
the Astrons.
Dave / NØATH
upply.
Jamey Wright
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Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 9:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] RS Astron up to 15 volts, will it be ok
Mathew,
The answ
Mathew,
The answer to your first question is yes, the Astron can be adjusted up
even higher without ill effects.
But, I strongly suggest that you get rid of that West Mountain device
and connect your radio directly to the battery bank through a fused
lead. That will cure your low power issue. N
At 09:08 PM 6/7/2005, Mathew Quaife wrote:
>Ok, well I'm not sure what you mean by float them.
No switches at all.
Power leads run from the power supply to the battery, and from the
battery to the load.
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At 09:11 PM 6/7/2005, Doug Zastrow wrote:
>Dave,
>
>Did you ever run into the problem of back feed from the batteries
>damaging the regulator chip during AC failures? In my case Astron
>specifically told me not to float the batteries in parallel with an
>RS-20M because of that potential problem
- Original Message -
From:
Dave
VanHorn
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
; Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 8:42
PM
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] RS Astron
up to 15 volts, will it be ok
At 08:29 PM 6/7/2005, Mathew Quaife wrote:>Hi Doug,
Ok, well I'm not sure what you mean by float them. Don't really have much expierience with batteries and power supplies, never really had the need up till now.
Mathew
Dave VanHorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 08:29 PM 6/7/2005, Mathew Quaife wrote:>Hi Doug, you might be right on the drop, I
At 08:29 PM 6/7/2005, Mathew Quaife wrote:
>Hi Doug, you might be right on the drop, I was taking it from memory
>as it was nearly 4 months ago that I had them hooked up. As for as
>amps, the repeater keyed up draws right about 22 amps according to
>the meter on the astron. I have never put an
ate 40 to prevent the batteries from backfeeding and destroying the regulator in the Astron during AC failures. Is that correct?
Doug
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From: Mathew Quaife
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 7:28 PM
Subject: [Repeater-Builder] RS Astron
At 07:38 PM 6/7/2005, Mathew Quaife wrote:
>Well the switch is running the voltage to the repeater, and trickle
>charges the batteries until it switches to use the batteries, then
>charges them back up. I'm open to idea's here. I have four sealed
>lead acid high capacity batteries that are for
, 2005 7:28
PM
Subject: [Repeater-Builder] RS Astron up
to 15 volts, will it be ok
Can an Astron RS-70 power supply be taken up to 15 volts and
survive ok? He is the situation. I have a bank of batteries
for the repeater and a West Mountain PWRgate 40 amp switch that goes
between the po
Well the switch is running the voltage to the repeater, and trickle charges the batteries until it switches to use the batteries, then charges them back up. I'm open to idea's here. I have four sealed lead acid high capacity batteries that are for the repeater.
Mathew
Dave VanHorn <[EMAIL PR
At 07:28 PM 6/7/2005, Mathew Quaife wrote:
>Can an Astron RS-70 power supply be taken up to 15 volts and survive
>ok? He is the situation. I have a bank of batteries for the repeater
>and a West Mountain PWRgate 40 amp switch that goes between the power
>supply, the batteries and the repeater. W
Can an Astron RS-70 power supply be taken up to 15 volts and survive
ok? He is the situation. I have a bank of batteries for the repeater
and a West Mountain PWRgate 40 amp switch that goes between the power
supply, the batteries and the repeater. WHen I put it in line, and
hook it all up, I
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