On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 14:50:52 -0700, Keyboard In The Wilderness wrote:

Just looked up the current draw of an ICOM IC-2100H -- tis 12 Amperes on 50W
transmit. Their IC- V8000 draws 15 Amperes at 75 Watts transmit. I wouldn't
connect either of these radios to the cigarette lighter plug.

I looked at my Yaesu 5100. It has 12A fuses, but my power supply reports
it's only drawing about 6A on "high". My Diamond meter reports it's only
putting out about 20W on high on 2M, and a bit less on 70cm. Obviously
both of these numbers are suspect since I haven't had either device
calibrated, but I think I'm safe in this case.

Now when my new Yaesu 8800 gets here next week I'll have another data
point to check both the power supply and power meter against.

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John LeMay
kc2kth
Senior Technical Manager
NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848
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