[Elecraft] Re: K2 & Solar Power

[W5EI@cs.com]

Hi Lynn

At Field Day last year, Don Brown, KD5NDB, brought out two 35 watt solar 
panels, his solar controller, and a 35 amp-hour gel cell battery.  If I 
remember correctly, we operated his K2/100 with this setup for the entire FD 
period.  This year we will have one or two of his K2/100s for SSB, my K2/100 
for CW, and three 80 watt panels with bigger gel cell batteries.  Because the 
K2, even with the 100 watt amp, draws a very modest amount of current, it is 
ideally suited for this type of operating.  As mentioned here, Don sells his 
solar controllers in kit form, and this nice thing about that is you get to 
build something else to play with.  If you have not yet build the KPA100, you 
can get by with a much smaller solar panel and couple of 7 amp-hour gel cell 
batteries.  May your Field Day site be a sunny one!

73,

Don McNallen
K2/100 #2478     


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