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Noisy Guest
On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 03:18:07 GMT, (Larry W4CSC) wrote:
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 11:52:46 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:
~~ snippity doo-da ~~
Heck, I've got a Astron RS-30a under my desk that is noiser than hell
and has been since I bought it WAY back when. :)
Junk it. I did mine. If that damned series pass transistor ever
shorts, you can kiss all your equipment hooked to it good bye when the
20-some volts hits them. I don't use analog, series pass regulated
power supplies, here. The ham shack 12V equipment all runs off a bank
of 90-year-old Nickel-Iron cells I got from a demolished Holiday Inn.
They provide about 800AH at 14VDC and are charged by a WalMart
automatic shutoff 10A charger all mounted under the house. This power
supply provides the 120A 14VDC to power my highly-modified TenTec
Hercules II solid state HF linear amp, about 650W OUTPUT. It also
powers all the VHF, scanners, and other 12V toys cluttering up the
desk. It's hooked to a 1KW Tripplite UPS that powers the desk light
and computers/monitors/modems/routers and other network toys in power
outage. The lights in here don't ever blink...(c;
I did something similar when I was really active on the CW bands,
although it is called a Kubota 10 Kw three cylinder diesel generator.
:)
I live out in the woods (so to speak), last house on the power line
and lose power all the time for a long time, sometimes for days.
Heck, it sneezes outside in the winter and the power will blink.
I will admit it hasn't been bad recently, but I'm not giving up my hot
shower and water when the power goes down. :)
Later,
Tom
S. Woodstock, CT
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"I object to fishing tournaments less for
what they do to fish than what they do to
fishermen." Ted Williams - 1964
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