Furman Rack Rider questions ???????

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ve3gnx
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Furman Rack Rider questions ???????

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I want to start making a Go Box look up on Youtube very cool it normally consists of a hf rig, auto tuner, dual band mobile power supply, maybe a backup battery and all the other odds and ends in a Gator Case either a 4, 6, or 8U case.
I know that the radio I want to use for hf is the Kenwood TS-50S and it would draw 18 amps at full power and the Rack Rider is only rated for 15 amps. The Rack Rider I am talking about is the RR15, does anybody know a larger amp Rack Rider or another brand that is the same width and is rack mounted?
Please either drop me a line here or my email is ve3gnx@gmail.com
Cheers and thanks for your help.
Don VE3GNX
k9yli
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Re: Furman Rack Rider questions ???????

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Maybe rethink you power needs... you dont have to work the world during an emergency.. HF at 15 to 20 watts would get you a couple hundred miles away.. enough beyond local repeater distance to do the jopb..
ve3gnx
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Re: Furman Rack Rider questions ???????

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Hey K9YLI: True enough but I would also like to use it on field days which is normally 100 watts but I guess I could use 50 watts and that should be okay, the TS-50 only has three settings for outgoing power 10, 50 and 100 nothing else in between.
Cheers Don VE3GNX
k9yli
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Re: Furman Rack Rider questions ???????

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field day is a whole different story.. take extra battery along as there is plenty of time to prepare for FD.

my suggestion is a 6 volt battery and an 8 volt battery in series..
yes 8 volt.. used on many farm tractors in the 50s area.. '
my John deere B lhad an 8 volter. I recently checked, they were still available at the local farm store.

2.2 volts per cell on 6 or 12 volt batteries. a 12 volt battery is really 13.2 fully charged.
so 6.6 volts + 8.8 = 15.4 in series. you may have to control that a bit but i think it would not stay at that level very long.

jut some thoughts on batteries...or maybe oone of the batterie boosters. I don;t knowhow they work.
perhaps they could control over voltage and use two 8 volts.. to start with 17.6 ,, for longer life.???????
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