Yeah, John, it's always a struggle to find the best and most efficient 
ways to do things.

I too struggle with the question of running things off of one large power 
supply, or running different things off of separate supplies.

Running things off separate supplies is obviously easier on the supplies, 
but maybe not as efficient energy-wise.

73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ

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From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: cooling fan question for TS480


>I know a guy who's station, which includes a few packet BBS's for mars and
> general ham use running 24/7, runs on solar power. It works out for him 
> very
> well. I thought about it but it's really a lot of money which I don't have
> right now. If I had the money though to do like he did, I'd probably look 
> at
> doing the same thing. I'm already looking at ways to possibly cut back on
> the power my station uses but haven't found one yet. I thought about 
> putting
> my packet setup on it's own small power supply which will help when I'm 
> not
> here or sleeping, but the astron will still be running when I am here and
> when I forget to shut it off which would be more often than not so I think
> that would actually make things worse.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:31 AM
> Subject: Re: cooling fan question for TS480
>
>
>> Brett:
>>
>> Regarding peddle-powered radio,     we tried that once at our club's 
>> field
>> day.  We made one contact with a bicycle-powered station, and the guy who
>> did it barely made it through the contact before running out of peddle
>> power.
>>
>> Now, granted, we're probably all out of shape, and eat way too much bad
>> food
>> at field day, but that was sure a tough road to go!
>>
>> 73 from Tom behler:  KB8TYJ
>>
>
>