you're right, it's another WMR product, I don't have their backup battery 
system right now, what I have is a jump pack for a car, with a power pole 
hookup I rigged up and when my power goes out I need only reach up and swap 
the plug form the power supply to that one, takes about a second. They make 
stuff so that can be done automatically, I don't have it yet. Key word is 
yet, I do plan to some day. The rig runner, there are a few different models 
out there. I have the one to plug 10 things in to, they make a bigger one 
and a few smaller ones and all are different prices but each thing plugged 
in to that is fused or you can get circuit breakers to plug in to it as I 
did for the bitter power radios. It's a very worth while investment, as I 
keep telling people before when I had everything on my power supply, when I 
keyed up my TM-G707A on mid or high power, the fan slowed down a bit. After 
I switched to the power poles and rig runner, no more, now it backs off a 
tiny bit on high power but nowhere near like before. That tends to make me 
wonder what else goes on the other way and I'll never go back. I'll stick 
with the rig runner and power poles setup rather than have 5 or so ring 
terminals coming off the power supply.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:44 PM
Subject: rig runner question


> John or anyone:
>
> I've heard several folks mention the rig runner as a way to switch quickly
> from AC to DC power, should the commercial power go off.
>
> What has been everyone's experience with the rig runner, and what is it's
> approximate cost?
>
> I seem to recall that this is available at West Mountain Radio too.
>
> 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
>