[Elecraft] Battery Charging PowerGate

Stephen W. Kercel kercel1 at suscom-maine.net
Mon Jun 8 12:58:58 EDT 2009


Lee and the Group:

I have used a 73 AH battery with a fuse at the terminal, a PowerGate, 
and a 35 Amp Astron power supply to run a K2. This has been set up for 
about 2 years, and has been trouble free.

73,

Steve Kercel
AA4AK


Lee Buller wrote:
> Why not use a PowerGate device from West Mountain Radio.  We do that our club's repeater site and it works darn good.  The repeater is run off batteries...while the Astron is used as a charger.  The PowerGate takes care of the charging issues.
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