can this be achieved? Put my 100 watt stinger board on a variable pot to adjust the rf power?
Just a curious project
Just a curious project
No more than 1.5 watts input to the stinger board.That’s what I was wanting to do. I have an old Saturn galaxy that has issues and we’ve never been able to get more than 10 watts out of.
My thought was to put the stinger board inside it with a good cooling solution and maybe some shielding for rf, and put it on a pot to adjust it.
Just wasn’t sure if the stock pot would handle 100 watts. Should I just hook it up to the power wire of the amp?
How many amps is the new supply in the Saturn? If it's 30 amps it could be cutting it close on SSB with the stinger on. I'd want 40 amps just to have some head room.So that must be the reason why my power supply was cobra heated up the other day when I was turning the radio up with the stinger board inside the house. Why is that? What significance does the DC power have to do with heating up a mobile radio ?
I have already replaced the power supply in the Saturn with a switching type
And you'll need a power supply to run the stinger.
Built-in power supply might croak under the added load.
Mobile radios only have this problem when running indoors from a DC power supply.