[OZAPRS] D7 down on power on nimh's?

[Gordon Taylor]

The manual for the D7 says exactly what you have experienced.

 

2.2w on 6V, 5w on 9.6v and 6w on 13.8v

 

 

Regards,
Gordo VK4VP

 

From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
Behalf Of Damien Gardner Jnr
Sent: Wednesday, 20 January 2010 09:07
To: Australian APRS Users
Subject: [OZAPRS] D7 down on power on nimh's?

 

Hey folks,

 

A while ago the battery pack on my D7 died completely, so I headed into
andrews to get a new one..  Turned out he had the kenwood 4-AA box in stock,
so I went with that instead, after being assured that the difference between
my 9.6v high-capacity pack, and the 6v 4xAA pack wouldn't effect my power
out...  Although having bought one of the little digitor 30W VHF amps off
ebay yesterday, I find that on battery, the D7 is only putting out about 3W,
where was on external DC, it's putting out the full 5W.. - Anyone else gone
from a 'proper' pack to one of the AA packs?  And seen something similar?
Doesn't bother me hugely, as I pretty much always use it off the car power,
but thought it was a bit strange..

 

Cheers,

 

DG

 

Damien Gardner Jnr
VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust
rendrag at rendrag.net -  http://www.rendrag.net/
--
We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
 We ran to the sounds of thunder.
We danced among the lightning bolts,
 and tore the world asunder

 

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