Tom,

It looks like Bob is doing just what you want to do, so it must be doable. 
Again, just be careful and check all connections and polarities before you 
put power to anything.  I like having my fuses in a central location on the 
Rigrunner, but to each his own.

There is some voltage drop involved with all this stuff and in the Power 
Gate as well due in large part to the diode that prevents battery power from 
feeding back into the power supply.  Voltage drop can be reduced somewhat by 
using heavy gauge  wire as short as possible.    The Astron linear supply I 
use has an internal adjustment to raise the output  voltage a bit  and this 
can also  help compensate.  While the automatic switch over from ps to 
battery is nice, it's not so important to me.   What I really like is the 
built in battery charger that will  charge at a max of 10 amps from the 
power supply, so no extra charger or cables needed to keep the battery 
charged.

Hope to see you in the contests this spring. I plan to put in a nice effort 
in this weekend's Virginia QSO party.  I'm close enough that I have  a nice 
signal on 40, 80, and 160 into VA.  Also looking forward to WPX SSB at the 
end of the month.

73, Steve KW3A
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: anderson power poles re-visited


>    Steve:
>
> What I wish to do is make a power pole harness that can be connected to 
> one
> power supply, and from which I can run several things, connecting them up 
> to
> power poles on the other end of the harness.
>
> What I had once was I believe a very large 50-amp power pole connector, 
> from
> which three or four separate wires branched off with power pole 
> connections
> that could be used for separate items, such as an HF rig, my old LDG
> auto-tuner, and maybe even an HT.
>
> I am trying to get an understanding as to how to configure the pins in the
> large power pole housing that has many slots for separate connections--do
> you put all of the positive leads on one side of the housing, and all of 
> the
> negatives on the other side?  That would seem most logical to me.
>
> Does this make any more sense, or have I confused things further?
>
> On another note:  congrats to Paul on the contest wins.  I'm hoping that, 
> by
> the contests this Spring, I can get the Ts480 going out in the motor home
> and work stations while doing some week-end camping.
>
> Will just have to take that one step at a time, and hope Spring weather
> eventually gets here to Central Michigan.
>
> 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
>