[MRCA] Batteries; (Was On Patrol Cuttyhunk Island)

[Al Klase]

Hey Peter,

I'd like to hear more about your batteries.

  * Are you using holders or welded straps?
  * Are they "protected cells"?
  * How do you control charge and prevent over discharge?


Inquiring mind want to know.

Al

Al Klase – N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/

On 9/24/2016 12:03 AM, Peter Gottlieb wrote:
> Great fun to get out in the field for some portable operations with 
> mil radios.  I was out with a digital head PRC-515 as well as a Racal 
> Syncal 2000.  The 515 has a H-189 handset, the racal a Clansman 
> RA-250.  Both have lithium ion packs I built out of A123 26650 M1B 
> cells:  4.6 AH 26.4V for the 515 and 6.9 AH 13.2V for the 2000.  They 
> powered the radios flawlessly and were very light.
>

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