Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Building a 300 / 200 watt dump load for a Solar Charge Controller


Some viewers wanted more information on the dump load that I use with the Solar Charge Controller described HERE. For a 12v 7 Ah battery I use a 12 volt car brake light bulb.  For  the 100 Ah battery I use the dump described by the backshed.com available HERE.   It works great and is easy to construct from scrap lying around.


Source:  Homegrown Power / thebackshed.com

Build your own 6 Way Coax Remote Antenna Switch (1.8 - 60 Mhz) - Nico ZS4N

During a recent QSO with my brother in law,  Nico ZS4N we discussed amongst other coax switches and he mentioned that he bought a 6 way coax...