[Elecraft] Powering KX3 from Bioenno charger with battery in between

[Greg Mitchell]

Yes that does work.

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 18:33 Julia Tuttle <julia at juliatuttle.net> wrote:

> The charger I have doesn't seem to exhibit that behavior, but I can see how
> others might -- it would look to the charger as if the battery magically
> jumped backwards in state of charge.
>
> Can I trust something like the Epic PWRgate to handle simultaneously
> charging the battery and running the radio from the same power supply? It
> claims to handle juggling a power supply, battery, solar cell, and load.
>
> 73,
>
> Julie
>
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 17:53 Howard Hoyt <hhoyt at mebtel.net> wrote:
>
> > The charger needs to see the quiescent current draw of the battery as it
> > is following it's constant current and constant voltage charge curve.
> >
> > Having designed Li chargers I can tell you that if deviation from
> > expected current in the CV part of the charge curve will cause the
> > charger logic to error out and abort charging with many charge ICs.  It
> > is best to disconnect the battery from any loads when charging.
> >
> > Cheers & 73,
> > Howie / WA4PSC
> >
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