what's the best anthena for this? and what max range can I expect between two of this units at max power?
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An antenna is only as good as it's installation. It depends on the application as to home or auto and how well grounded it is. A good 5/8 wave antenna is best. Your not going to get much further that line of sight with a 2 meter fm signal at any power unless you have tropospheric ducting. A good inversion with throw a signal a long long way. I've heard Chicago repeaters in KC recently. I've heard mountain toppers get out 80+ miles with 20 Watts and I've seen 100W have troubles going 15 miles in the hills. As a rule of thumb, you can consistently expect 20-30 miles on a car with a well installed (i.e. grounded) antenna. A little worse on a mag mount and even less on a dual band. An antenna is only as good as it's installation. It depends on the application as to home or auto and how well grounded it is. A good 5/8 wave antenna is best. Your not going to get much further that line of sight with a 2 meter fm signal at any power unless you have tropospheric ducting. A good inversion with throw a signal a long long way. I've heard Chicago repeaters in KC recently. I've heard mountain toppers get out 80+ miles with 20 Watts and I've seen 100W have troubles going 15 miles in the hills. As a rule of thumb, you can consistently expect 20-30 miles on a car with a well... » Read More An antenna is only as good as it's installation. It depends on the application as to home or auto and how well grounded it is. A good 5/8 wave antenna is best. Your not going to get much further that line of sight with a 2 meter fm signal at any power unless you have tropospheric ducting. A good inversion with throw a signal a long long way. I've heard Chicago repeaters in KC recently. I've heard mountain toppers get out 80+ miles with 20 Watts and I've seen 100W have troubles going 15 miles in the hills. As a rule of thumb, you can consistently expect 20-30 miles on a car with a well installed (i.e. grounded) antenna. A little worse on a mag mount and even less on a dual band. « Show Less
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All depends if you plan to use this for a base station of mobile? I use it as a base station with a diamond 510. It's a 17 foot antenna and reaches a long way but that is dependent on the band conditions. I also have one in both my truck and jeep. Each has a differnt antenna an works differently. The real question is, what do you intend to do with this radio? What's its purpose?
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Well ultimately it depends where you are and how far the closest repeater. I'm in the High Desert in California and I'm hitting the repeater 54 miles away with a simple magnetic car trunk antenna using a "cookie sheet" as a ground..lol. So any 2 meter ground should suffice..
2177905
We are using high quality 75 ohm with a run of 53 feet. Reception of stations is excellent up to about 70 miles away. At that distance, reception is somewhat sensitive to interference from military and weather sources.
288675
We received your question and are glad to help. The Xantrex 806-1220 PROwatt SW 2000 inverter has a maximum continuous power rating of 2000 Watts, and a maximum surge rating of 3000 Watts. Amazon almost always uses images supplied by the first seller listing a particular item, and sometimes that seller may accidentally upload an incorrect image.Regards,Steve, for Explore Electric
1998152
I am running 2 P2D2-12's in mine and I am maxing them out at 500w each and it seems to handle it pretty well for a sealed enclosure.
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I can only offer some real world experience, I have 3 of these, In an office building it works fine for about 100 feet then starts to drop off at 150 though walls it does not work well. I found a second unit 100 feet away is a good solution. In open air 350 feet work fine. You have a power setting and you can turn it up. You also have a range setting and it goes up to Kilometers, This issue is there is a compromise of the speed and bandwidth as you turn this up. So I am sure it will work at 2,500 meters but you wont be getting 100MB though put.
1805077
You are correct. It's about 15 watts output. Range should not be greatly affected by the difference in output.
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In terms of the wattage, I would definetely recommend going higher than the rated requirement by around 1.5x (so technically 2250W+ if available). The ratings are never an exact number (or for constant pull of power-just a peak output) and even if they were it would be running right to the edge of its potential in your case, which would not likely end well.
1986297
The power of this unit is very strong, but it does not live well with a router that wants to refresh the IP lease. Check with Amped Wireless tech support to see if the Router you are using will work with it. Th Amped AC2000 is a wireless access point that has good range too and is happy on any network. good luck John
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I'm using one that is 12.5 inches long. I can hit a 440 repeater 20 miles away from inside my house. I can also hit a 2 meter repeater 15 miles away. Although the reports are not full quieting, when I go outside the signal reports improve dramatically.
1310067
I would check with them before buying it becasue it may or may not work. I bought two diffrent antenas, one 5W and another 7W and could not tell the difference in performance
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It says "up to 1500 feet," so I would think it would work, as long as both get their power from the same meter. They MUST have a wire-path between units. My needs don't span that kind of range, though, but I would give it a try.
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I would go with a 15. 10 blows too often, 20 really isn't safe enough. Try and use a "slow blow" or "slow burn" fuse since anything amplified will power spike.
97227
I'm sure that is max for the unit. Using two 1200W devices isn't the problem, the issue would be how many amps they'll draw when in use. For example, if you connected two 1200W grills, it'll not work due to the amps.
735613
Thank you for such a quick reply! I currently have a Cyberpower 450va and the computer, monitor, and WiFi router are plugged into the battery backup section. It works fine. I recently had FIOS installed, and got the Optical Network Terminal (ONT) without the battery backup. I was thinking of buying the larger CyberPower 850 to be sure it could handle everything (for a couple of minutes until our generator starts), especially since I have no clue how many watts the ONT uses. Thanks again for your response.
665835
The ubiquiti has a large range with no speed loss. Plus if you daisy chain them the transfer from one to the other is seamless. GET THEM !!! I am also in an RV park in the FL Keys.
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yeah just look for 3000k warm bulbs thats the red. personally i'm a huge fan of dual arc technology so 1 6400k the rest 3000 during flower :) but as far as brands go plantmax is an ok brand cant seem to find any on amazon. check your local hydro shop or even home depot for the 24 watt 3000k bulbs.
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That's plenty. The max tdp is 200 watts. So with two, you still have room for anything you'd want, for the most part.