[Elecraft] Field Day Battery Capacity

[Lee Buller]

I ran battery power in FD several years ago with a TS140S.  We had four car batteries that we alternated...two in parallel at a time.  The TS140S was running 100 watts out on Cw and SSB and went the whole FD on just one charge each for the batteries.  The 140S died around 11 volts.  This was hard contesting too...lots of CQing.  So we pushed the batteries pretty hard.  Most car batteries will work for quite awhile before going down to far.  In QRP mode...3 amps...a 12 volt 550 amp hour battery will last quite a long time.  What was nice was that the generator only ran when we charged the batteries.  The silence was golden. Lee - k0WA 

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