[Elecraft] KX3 battery upgrade?

[Paul Chesloff]

Great idea, count me in!  

At first I thought “The new KXBC3a should be backward compatible to NiMH cells”.  Then I realized “Who would want to go back”?  Then for safety reasons make it impossible to “accidentally“ connect the LiFePo4 battery pack to a KXBC3.

Paul W2PMC

> On Oct 5, 2020, at 5:47 PM, Steve KC6ZKT <kc6zkt at effable.com> wrote:
> 
> The KX3 is my favorite of my HF radios right now. But one of my annoyances is the internal battery limitations.
> 
> I always wind up carrying an external 6_Ah or 10_Ah LiFePo4 battery into the field when I use this radio, an external charge controller, and solar panel. It's not a big problem, but it also should not be a big project to improve this situation. The KXBC3 has enough real estate to include a lithium battery charger, and even a solar charge controller in its space. The amount of battery energy that could fit in-place of the NiMH cells could approximately triple the capacity of the AA cells.
> 
> So I have these questions:
> 
> 1) How many of you out there might buy an upgrade which replaces the KXBC3 board with a lithium battery manager, and a associated battery pack?
> 
> 2) Are there any 3rd parties already making anything like this?
> 
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