[Elecraft] AA lithium batteries & K2...

[Masleid, Michael A.]

Hi Bill,

The battery is only good for 2 watt hours.  So six of them does 12 watt hours.
If you pull 10 amps at 12 volts for 1 hour, that is 120 watt hours, so the battery
will last for 1/10 of an hour.  That's 6 minutes of talk time.

A couple of things go wrong though - the voltage will drop to 3 x 3.25 volts = 9.75
at 5 A per cell, which is too low I think, but 4 in series will make 16.3 volts open
circuit, which is too high I think.

73, AB9GV  

>This has me examining how to Pelicanize my portable setup.
>Maybe I will go with the k2/100 kat100. I loose only the battery, which 
>these little Tadiran Batteries could supply at SMALL SPACE cost.(for qrp op 
>only).

>bill


>>   5-A continuous discharge would feed my ATS-3 very well ;)  I could put 
>> 6 of them is series-parallel to work for quite a spell.
>>