As a sugguestion, if the wire has any green corrsion I would replace the
stuff with new, especially if that wire got hot , from my experience.
Mark AB8RU
Tony VE6MVP wrote:
>At 12:42 AM 2005-08-25 -0400, you wrote:
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> > Those BCI -31's are good batteries, you can add extras on if
> >you need to but you would have to go to a HD Truck Parts place or
> >dealership to make up a special 2 or more battery cable, your cable
> >should be #6 or larger diameter ( #4 ,or #0 ) depends on how much
> >current the system is drawing..
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>All that was attached to those radios were 2 UHF linking radios wired back
>to back. So the most power they would use would be, guessing 20 amps,
>when one radio is transmitting. I have no idea what gauge of wire was
>used. They'd been there for at least five or ten years if not even
>fifteen or twenty. I say 20 amps because 22 amps was what an electrical
>place told me my mobile radio was consuming when we were stress testing the
>alternator and battery in my car.
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>And the other ham was far, far more experienced with all this than I am. I
>was basically just the driver and gopher. <smile>
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>Tony
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