I want to eliminate a car battery powering a VHF radio. Can I plug this into a wall socket and attach the red &amp; black wires to the radio &amp; run it?
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I have one that I run a car radio and a CB radio in my garage with. It dose the job perfect.
1780663
Yes. You would have to have an electrician wire in a capacitor!! Also single phase!! I have run mine from my car battery with a $30 converter!! Did this during a storm.
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No. It does not need a power supply. It simply collects the VHF from one antenna and the UHF from another and combines them into one cable.
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The short answer is locating the antenna and hooking up the power. I took power directly to the battery. There is less RF interference that way. It's a great radio and has done good for about two years so far.
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This unit would have no trouble running the radio. But the power amp may need more than the max of this 55 amp unit to power it. In wich case for sure use a battery. Since you are using it for short bursts of high amps draw you would be ok. You need to know how many amps the unit draws and get a converter that is 30% or so higher.To get good Full signal output. DON`T STARVE THE AMP or it will eat it up soon.
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You shouldn't. First and foremost, ensure that your computer has the necessary power to run the program. RF7 is pretty fast moving, and needs a fair sized graphics card. If that criteria is met, charge your radio battery, leave the power switch OFF, plug the supplied interface cable in and rock out.
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yes you can unplug the small antenna and hook up any other vhf antenna in it's place
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There is no "plug" it has two bare leads, that can easily be spliced (you could attach to a 12V "power port" plug for car cigarette lighter if you want). Any 12 DCV will work (and up to 24 DCV I guess, I haven't tried that), with a current draw of just under 1 amp it is very bright white flood (you don't want to look straight at it). I have this installed in a cabin with 12V (Marine Deep cell) battery for lighting our "living room", and works very nice. Just make sure that you have the positive battery terminal on the red wire. It does emit some RF interference, so a weak (radio) station will have a buzz if receiver is close by. There is no "plug" it has two bare leads, that can easily be spliced (you could attach to a 12V "power port" plug for car cigarette lighter if you want). Any 12 DCV will work (and up to 24 DCV I guess, I haven't tried that), with a current draw of just under 1 amp it is very bright white flood (you don't want to look straight at it). I have this installed in a cabin with 12V (Marine Deep cell) battery for lighting our "living room", and works very nice. Just make sure that you have the positive battery terminal on the red wire. It does emit some RF... » Read More There is no "plug" it has two bare leads, that can easily be spliced (you could attach to a 12V "power port" plug for car cigarette lighter if you want). Any 12 DCV will work (and up to 24 DCV I guess, I haven't tried that), with a current draw of just under 1 amp it is very bright white flood (you don't want to look straight at it). I have this installed in a cabin with 12V (Marine Deep cell) battery for lighting our "living room", and works very nice. Just make sure that you have the positive battery terminal on the red wire. It does emit some RF interference, so a weak (radio) station will have a buzz if receiver is close by. « Show Less
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yes you can use the 8 AA batteries that you can pick up from Radio Shack is called the battery holder or if you want to plug in the wall you can just ask them for a 12 volt power supply
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The car needs to have a battery that you can draw power from consistently. If you can run chargers, you can likely run this. It's connected directly to the battery, so it shouldn't be any issue. Mine is hooked from the battery, with the cord threaded under the hood through the dash area up by the steering wheel, on the farthest left side. I mounted it there, and I got a better switch for mine. In fact, mine can be run even with the car off, because batteries can power things if they are directly tapped in.
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The little connection on the battery is for a charger. You will need a separate charger cable for this. You can charge the radio either using this connection or through the charger that came with the radio.
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Yes and no. You can run it with a battery, but it can't be more than 500ma of current or else it doesn't work right. You can also bleed off your main power source, if you step down the current to under 500ma using some resistors and a MOSFET.
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I can see no reason why it couldn't power a car radio as long as your total power demand doesn't exceed 6 AMPS. I run a SIRIUS XMsatelite radio with mine which uses very little power. I connect wirelessly to a solar-battery powered radio just because I have one and thought it was a neat idea---Works great
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Wellll, Yes it can, but you don't want to do it.Google and instructables dot com would be your friends here. At a high level the steps are:1. Identify + and - connections on battery.2. Break open battery case (preferably a dead one).3. Remove batteries.4. Add wires to battery contacts.5. Connect wire to a 12 volt DC power supply with 'enough' amps, or to your car battery (better watch that polarity!)But given the fact that a new battery is around 35 bucks - it aint worth doing.
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Your power supply would be considered the source and your radio is the load. Red is hot and black is ground from a DC power supply. Same on the load side. Will not work with a AC power requirement as far as I know.
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I believe it is the design to merely run off a battery pack. Since it is an emergency radio, the design asumes that electricity is not available for the average radio or television thus engaging this item to usage.
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Kiyo, you could used this but the wire is rated for a lower amparage rating. If you are trying to run a higher powered radio, use a larger amp fuse holder for the wire. Another option you could use is to run a relay into your system so you could used the lower amp fuse and then cause this to run your relay. Look up how to wire a relay and that shoud give you what you are looking for.