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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Years ago, I ran a U-2000, KPC-3, and
HTX-202 with a 11 watt Unisolar panel. The battery was an old car battery placed
in a sealed bucket and buried underground for thermal reasons. This ran for
years until I built an 8'x12' shed and 100' tower to house a 100% solar and wind
powered voice repeater. Now the system feeds off the large battery bank for the
repeater system. I used four Golf Cart batteries in a series/parallel
combination to get 450 A/hrs at 14 Vdc. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Check out data on findu for KA1GJU-3 in Kensington,
NH.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> The largest consumer of power is the
radio, mobile rigs draw .5 amp just on RX. Since I upgraded the system, we now
run 50 watts from an IC-2000 with the pilot lights disconnected. The KPC-3
sometimes locks up in cold WX, other than that its trouble free.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>73 de Kriss</FONT></DIV>
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