Richard, I have been running one in my car for 4 years, and it is almost bullet proof.. If it goes overtemp, too much swr, low voltage, it will drop out to protect itself.. It will follow the radio with just alittle amount of RF, so external bandswitching is not necessary.. It will sense the RF also, but I recommend keying from the radio for the keying, and don't worry about ALC, you can't over drive the amp, if you go too high, it will automatically kick in a attenuator to bring the RF back down...
I always used an extra battery next to the amp to keep the voltage up with an external aux battery isolator like the one used in RVs.. As a matter of fact, why don't you use the motorhome's batteries to run the amp?? It will need to be fused for 90 amps or you might want to add one of those large capacitors that the Boom-Boom guys use when they are using some of those large sub-amps. I think that I saw a 1.5 Farad cap for $29 at Frys, just be careful not to charge it and touch the leads.. I don't think that you can go wrong with that amp... I would do the same if I had to do it over again.. It's heavy, but not as heavy as a AL-811 amp, same footprint as a TS-2000, you can use a battery with a floating charger in the shack (emergency powered?) and a whole lot easier to remote.. Which is another note, to turn it on remotely, you just send 12 volts to one pin.. Works really slick.. All this is my option, but as always, your mileage may vary.. 73, Dudley WA5QPZ At 10:15 AM 6/24/2007, Richard Stouffer wrote: >I ordered a Flex 5000 last week and because I'll be waiting a while, I've >been playing around with some ideas regarding amps. I have an AL-811, but I >want something more "transportable" for occasional use in my motorhome. I >spent a limited amount of time looking over available information on the >internet and the reviews, for the most part, seem very favorable, except >grumbles about the pricing and the possible need for two 50 amp power >supplies running in parallel. From what I understand, I would only need two >if running RTTY. > > > >I wondered is anyone here has experience with one on an SDR 1000 and how it >might work with the 5000. > > > >Regards, > >Richard WU5K > >(Formerly KE5DLQ) > >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: >http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20070624/8f9264a4/attachment.html > > >_______________________________________________ >FlexRadio mailing list >FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz >http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz >Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ >FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ >FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20070624/09bcacec/attachment.html _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
