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Subject: [TenTec] running cw with generator question
From: jerome schatten <romers@shaw.ca>
Reply-to: romers@shaw.ca,Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:53:30 -0800
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Hope this isn't stretching the limits on off-topic posting:

I'm considering buying a small eu1000 Honda 1000w generator to (among
other things) run my Jupiter with a switching power supply and my laptop
from inside my camper. I run only CW, and I was wondering if the rapid
surges in current draw caused by the CW keying would drive the generator
nuts? Or, as I would hope, the flywheel on the generator would keep the
generator running at about the same speed?  

I would be plugging the generator into the camper so it could run the
lights, etc. as well and hoping to get away with a 1kw generator, as
physical size is a problem while travelling.

Seems to me that this is the old 'field day generator' problem, but I
never paid much attention to the generator end of things as I was always
operating. Thanks for any advice.

Best,
jerome - va7vv

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