Welcome back everyone to another episode of Rick's Gadgets. Today I kind of got a little unboxing of the West Mountain Radio, the N8X JK voltage booster and what I was running into with my power wall is being lit the Am I on it only puts out a max of you know little over 12 volts and my Icon radio likes 13 volts so what I wanted to do was to get this to boost my voltage up to the 13 volts just so the radio would be happy and I could use it in emergency situations at least on low power and just try to get something for emergencies you know if I do lose power so what I want to do is show you what it is basically his West Mountain Radio it's a new product they had out this year I was on back a quarter four while I found I got it in this week comes in a box has the directions on it and basically all it does is it takes an input voltage anywhere between nine and 13 volts and it will boost it up to 13 volts and what it's mainly designed for is for car batteries or something where you're getting on that lower end of the 12 volts and you're trying to run your operations and battery sags a little bit under load this will boost that power and it's adjustable where your cutoff is you it is adjustable I'll show you inside here just a second but you can't adjust where the cutoff is so the voltage does drop this will shut off as well so that way you don't worry about draining your battery but it's basically pretty simple you have an input and you have a 40 amp fuse and you have a remote panel so if you want to see this remotely what the the stats are coming out of it you can get a remote panel for and on the output side you can chain these together and have multiples so if you need more than the 30 amps and you need 60 amps you can run two of these in series to get your vote it I mean your amp are jump it also has an input for antenna and that is used for sensing RF and when you transmit it'll kick the boost in then instead of relying on when the the voltage drops and of course you got the D in your powerful DC out on that end so on the top side everything here you can adjust your output voltage here by a little pot screw low battery over temp and whether it's enabled or not for your RF adjustment right now I just have it enabled where it kicks in as soon as power is applied you can disable it that way it'll be a straight through or you can do an Rnet RF enabled and you can adjust your delay if you need to change the delay of when you start to transmit but that's it it's got a cooling fan and that is basically it on the outside so let me show you what it looks like on the inside okay now that we've got it opened up mainly there's three parts you get the main board here with your input output then you got a second board here that has the input pins that you hook up to the side here and I'll say where the fan hooks up to to the to this board and this kind of sits like like this on the side so what I want to show you here on the inside is these pins here you can set your voltage to different cut-offs so I'm going to lower mine down to nine volts so I'm just going to put that on the nine volt pin and that way it'll run better with my lipo batteries but that's the look on the inside and now let's show you hooked up to the radio and how it operates okay the first thing I want to show you here is I haven't hooked up nothing's on the output so this is just the straight input readings and you can see here nothing's going through it so it's not drawing anything just sitting in the normal phase so now let's hook up the radio okay so now I've got it hooked up on the output side and as you can see right now everything's off so let's strip powering up so you can see they're getting 13.6 volts out and that's on 11 volts coming in so it's up in the voltage to supply the radio so the radio was happy so let me dial over here to a clear frequency and I'm going to turn the output down I'm just going to do to 10 watts and I am in a dummy load here so let's just key it up and see what happens here and you can see voltage stayed pretty consistent there keying up so overall it works really well I've been playing with the the output on the radio here on my icon and it is happy around 10 to 20 watts output if I get much more than that it will cut off so the battery outside is not quite strong enough to supply it but like I said this is mainly for emergency situations I got this to boost it and if I need to I could use it in the car as well or on any 12 volt battery that you need to work out in the field but anyway I hope you enjoyed this like I said quick unboxing here of the N8X JK battery booster from West Mountain radio and been pleased with it like I said you can hook them up if you need more amperage out so it's a nice feature of it I'll put a link to the PDF of the the directions and the manual in the comments below so if there's any questions or anything you want to look it up you can but anyway I appreciate you stopping by and checking out this latest video here and if you like it give it a 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