Hi guys.
I have been watching this backup battery discussion.
We use Eastpen Geltech batteries from the states they are the best batteries
no weekly monthly maintenance. We check them for capacity every 6 months and
thats it.
We use a product called Korode Kure on the battery terminals this keeps them
clean and a good contact for many years. I have been using this for 30
years. I also use it under HF mobile whip bases. If really stuck out in the
bush with a empty tube of KK I have used copper kote a nut and bolt
antiseaze.Oh by the way I have had a unsealed battery bank go up so please
venterlate the battery box to the outside world and keep a minimum 20 liter
bottle of distiled water close at hand in the hut just in case. A 8hr +
drive to medical help with acid burns is no fun. Cheers form down under.
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From: "Mark A. Holman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Batteries in Parallel
> 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
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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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