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Old 11-13-2014, 09:16 AM   #15
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I am thinking of going the dipole route for one or two bands....

For power: on my class A Damon gave me a Progressive Dynamics 9180 with wizard and a pair of Interstate U-2200's.. The U-2200's have died of old age (9 years) and been replaced with DEKA GC-20s (Another GC-2 class battery, 230 amp hours). they also have a trio of Group 29's (About 100 amp hours each) in parallel with them There is a long story here involving some short lived AGM's as well but those are history.

The Kenwood TS-2000 shows no difference in noise level if I turn off the breaker feeding the converter,, If the converter has power it can not tell if the batteries are connected or not (When rig was new I sometimes turned off the batteries by accident).

That's about 1,000 watts of 13.6 volt WITHOUT battery assistance.

The TS-2000 only puts out 100 watts, draws less than 200. so I have all the power I need.

Footnote: I have read many complain about RFI from the Progressive Dynamics intella power units.. But mine appears slient.
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