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From: "Tony Wells" <t.wells at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>,
        "Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion" <qrp-l at Lehigh.EDU>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:41:34 -0000
Subject: [Elecraft] K2 Battery Monitor Program - any interest???

Folks,

After finding a wiring fault in my K2 gel battery pack installation (battery
protection diode wrong way round!) I decided I wanted to see how long my
battery would last on discharge. I didn't have the bandwidth to check the K2
voltage every five minutes for 10 hours or more, so I wrote a little
graphical voltage monitoring program that would check the K2 voltage every
few minutes and sound an alarm when the voltage got too low and to remind me
to recharge.

I'm sure others might want to use this tool, so I've wrapped a zipped
installshield round it and put it at:

www.t-wells.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/k2_battery_monitor.zip

To use it, you will of course need to have a correctly wired K2/PC interface
lead.

If you want to try it or test it please download it and let me have your
comments. If there is enough interest, I'll ask Elecraft to put it on their
website. It is free and there are no licencing restrictions, do what you
want with it. Just don't blame me for ruining your gel batteries!

Regards,

Tony
M3CJF
G7IGG

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