Message from vitesse at Sunday, 25-Apr-10 14:34:12 GMT

Is anyone here have ever installed an ham radio transceiver inside an hybrid car or even better inside Honda civic Hybrid (HCH II)?

I begin to search how I will do my installation and how it would be different than a conventional car.

The radio I want use 12.5a mac on 12v, I assume the car as enough power for it on 12v, but I have no clue.

Message from bradc944 at Monday, 26-Apr-10 08:45:18 GMT

I have a friend that runs not only 2m from his Prius, but HF (ic706mk2g) as well. His trick? he's installed a somewhat larger auxillary battery. I'm not familiar with the Civic hybrid, but I would assume that the car accessories run off of something like a small motorcycle battery... you may want to look at a larger rechargable battery that would be put in paralell with the accessory battery so that the charging system would charge it , and not be on the main powerplant system.

Just a thought, but it can be done!

Brad

Message from vitesse at Monday, 26-Apr-10 16:19:21 GMT

Thanks for reply :) yes this is as big as a motorcycle battery. Great to know this is possible. Do you know if he had to filter noise generated by the hybrid system?

Message from bradc944 at Tuesday, 27-Apr-10 06:06:25 GMT

Don't know but the next time I speak with him I'll make it a point to ask :)

Message from vitesse at Thursday, 29-Apr-10 21:35:41 GMT

thanks, this is really appreciated :)

Message from bradc944 at Monday, 03-May-10 08:23:18 GMT

OK, I got the information...

How he did it was to install another battery along with the original motorcycle battery, using a 10-ohm resistor between the 2 batteries, so that the larger battery gets charged by the automobile's charging system.

Hope this helps!