I would think that as long as you had a car battery connected, in
addition to your radio, it'd work OK. The battery acts as a BFC,
soaking up transients and boosting sags. If you really want to go
overboard, I'd try an Optima yellow top deep discharge gel battery.

-dickm

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:08:19 -0700 (PDT), Alex
wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I'm looking at picking up a Chicago Electric Generator Model# 97906
from Harbor Freight to run a few things around the hose incase of a
power outage, but I was wondering about the 12V Battery Charging
Socket. Could I run any 12-volt item, specifically a 2m amateur
radio, from this, or is it designed specifically for charging a
battery and nothing else? I've read through the manual online -
http://www.harborfreight.com/manuals...7999/97906.pdf - and it
just mentions using it for a battery ... but it'd be nice to use this
for my radio as well.

Just checking...

Thanks,

Alex