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BLF-1212AS KIT (10 hours on HF SSB at 20% TX and 80% RX) · Power
A battery, charger, controller, solar panel, filter, or station-power component.
Why operators make room for it
BLF-1212AS KIT (10 hours on HF SSB at 20% TX and 80% RX): match stored energy to the radio and operating plan
BLF-1212AS KIT gives a portable or backup radio station a defined 12-volt LiFePO4 power source instead of forcing the operator to build the power system around an unknown battery. This battery-and-charger package is intended for customers who want quiet, portable DC energy for field operation, emergency readiness, or a station that must continue working away from commercial power. The published operating-time example (10 hours on HF SSB at 20% TX and 80% RX) is a planning reference tied to that stated transmit/receive duty cycle—not a universal runtime promise.
The built-in protection circuit manages cell balancing and helps protect against overcurrent, excessive discharge, overvoltage, and short circuits. The package includes or identifies the compatible charging path, reducing the chance that a customer pairs the battery with an unsuitable generic charger. Those protections improve usability, but they do not replace correct fusing, cable sizing, connector polarity, ventilation, and load planning.
The real buying decision is operating time versus pack size and weight. A QRP station, a 100-watt HF transceiver, accessories, receive time, transmit duty cycle, mode, and output power all draw energy differently. Honest runtime scenarios, a clear connector path, and the radio-current limits make that tradeoff easier to judge than capacity alone.
Choose BLF-1212AS KIT when its documented voltage, capacity, current capability, connector, charger, and expected duty cycle match the station you intend to power. That turns a battery specification into something useful: a predictable amount of radio time that can be planned, carried, and recharged.
Quick product reference
Key Specifications
- Product type
- Power
- Primary role
- A battery, charger, controller, solar panel, filter, or station-power component.
- Input Voltage
- 120VAC/220 VAC
- Output Voltage
- 14.6VDC
- Current
- 2A
- Connector
- Alligator Clips
- Published package contents
- 1 X BLF-1212AS (12V, 12Ah LFP Battery)
- 1 X BPC-1502DC (14.6V, 2A AC-to-DC Charger w/ DC Plug)
- 1 X BA-DCF-PP45 (Female DC Plug to PP45 Powerpole Adapter)
- 1 X BA-QD-PP45 (Faston QD Connector to PP45 Adapter)
- Selection rule
- Match chemistry, voltage, current, connector, and charging source
- Runtime
- Depends on radio load and transmit duty cycle
Operator decision support
Plan the complete setup
See what this product is best suited for, what the documented setup needs, and the boundaries to confirm before deployment.
- Best for
Operating time is not an abstract battery number when the activation, emergency net, or camping trip is still underway.
- What’s included
- 1 X BLF-1212AS (12V, 12Ah LFP Battery)
- 1 X BPC-1502DC (14.6V, 2A AC-to-DC Charger w/ DC Plug)
- 1 X BA-DCF-PP45 (Female DC Plug to PP45 Powerpole Adapter)
- 1 X BA-QD-PP45 (Faston QD Connector to PP45 Adapter)
- What else you need
Match chemistry, voltage, current, connector, and charging source
What an operator can do
- Match battery chemistry, voltage, current capacity, connectors, charger, and controller to the station load.
- Protect every circuit with the specified polarity, fuse, cable size, ventilation, and charging limits.
- Estimate operating time from the actual transmit duty cycle rather than a maximum nameplate figure alone.
Complete product details
The Bioenno Power Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePO4) Battery Model BLF-1212AS is a state-of-the-art 12V 12Ah battery. Electrically identical to our popular BLF-1212A, this AS ABS Sealed variant is the drop-in solution for your system and applications and offers the proven world-class performance of a Bioenno Power battery in a form factor you are familiar with. Ideal for hard use, this ABS version has seen extensive use powering critical avionics on sail planes with additional applications covering e-bike, e-scooter, radio communications and audio-visual. The battery has an integrated PCM (protection circuit module) which provides complete internal cell balancing, complete integrated protection along with integrated charge circuitry and boasts no EMI/RFI (Electromagnetic Interference/Radio-Frequency Interference) and is absolutely quiet! This unit has an available 110VAC/220 VAC AC-to-DC charger, that provides 2A with Alligator Clips.
Includes built-in PCM (protection circuit module) which provides internal cell balancing and management, protection from overcurrent, undervoltage (overdischarge), overvoltage and short circuiting, and has integrated charging circuitry
Available 120VAC/220 VAC Charger
Please note you can also use an adapter to convert the output connector from the battery to various outputs including a DC plug.
Please note that this battery should be charged using a LiFePO4 compatible charger, and not a charger for SLA batteries.
The Battery Package consists of:
- 1 X BLF-1212AS (12V, 12Ah LFP Battery)
- 1 X BPC-1502DC (14.6V, 2A AC-to-DC Charger w/ DC Plug)
- 1 X BA-DCF-PP45 (Female DC Plug to PP45 Powerpole Adapter)
- 1 X BA-QD-PP45 (Faston QD Connector to PP45 Adapter)
BLF-1212AS Battery Specifications
- Voltage: 12V
- Capacity: 12 Ah
- Case Type: ABS Sealed
- Charge/Discharge Connector: Fast-On
- Maximum Continuous Discharge Current: 20A
- Maximum Peak Discharge Current: 40A (2 sec.)
- Max Power Delivered to Load at 12V: 240 Watts (12V x 20A = 240 Watts)
- Dimensions:(L x W x H) 6.0 in. x 3.9 in. x 3.8 in. (152 mm x 100 mm x 95 mm)
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Weight: 3.6 lbs. (1.6 kg)
Compatible AC-to-DC Charger Specifications
- Input Voltage: 120VAC/220 VAC
- Output Voltage: 14.6VDC
- Current: 2A
- Connector: Alligator Clips
- Model Number: BPC-1502C
IMPORTANT
In practice if you are not using the battery for more than 3 months, simply top off the battery using the BPC- wall charger every 3 months. You do not need to leave the BPC- wall charger attached to the battery all the time. Simply top off using the BPC- wall charger, the LED light on the charger turning from red to green. The 50% rule is only needed if you will not be using the battery for more than 1 year. In that case, you will need to discharge the battery to about 12.8 VDC and then disconnect the wall charger from the battery and store.
