I am among those not thrilled with the KXBC3. A few simple changes could improve it, however: 1) A top-off or balancing mode where the charger would charge at a 50ma rate, with a charge time up to 24 hrs at that rate. 2. More full-current charge times available. Why not allow 1-16 hrs in one hour increments? Why the restrictions? Are we in Moscow? Or worse yet, Cupertino?
My RC smart charger, a Triton, peak charges NiCd and NiMH packs at 200ma (or whatever I want) and rarely misses a peak. When it does, either the backup total time cutoff, or total current in cutoff, does. I understand why Elecraft would not want a high-current charger inside the KX3. But to say a peak detection charger isnt practical is just not true IMHO. Oh, and my Triton is old enough to vote.
On a brief off-topic note, unable to make a CW contact this morning at 2am, I discovered two guys chatting on RTTY in Florida (I am in CA). WHAT THE HELL, I thought, I whipped out my KX3 manual and put the KX3 into FSK mode and their QSO started to print. I gave one of them a call, and he answered. With 5 watts, I worked him on RTTY from my KX3 using the CW paddles. Unfreakingbelievable!
73 Eric WD6DBM
Sent from the metering jack on my Heathkit Twoer
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