Greetings, I finished my K1 last week and everything went fine. Both resistance and voltage check were perfect and the alignment procedures were good, too, both rx and tx but I have only used a dummy load on the tx and didn't transmit into an antenna. Today I finished and installed the KNB1 and that seemed to be good as well, I could toggle between HI/LO/OFF. I connected the K1 to an antenna via my T1, which I have used many times before with my FT817, and the first time I set the K1 in tune mode my power supply tripped because the K1 wanted more current then the power supply was set to, around 1.5A I believe. I didn't manage to see whether the SWR was too high, but there were plenty of loud signals in the receiver, so it couldn't be too bad, could it? I increased the current limit (the max is 3A) but after that, every time I set the K1 into tune mode, it just displayed P0.1 no matter what I set the output power to. The same happened when I used a dummy load. The current consumption in tune mode is now 220mA and 70mA in rx mode. The receiver seems to work as it did before. Any ideas what can be wrong? Did I really manage to blow my final? Can it be blown due to high SWR? The power was set to 2W.
Thanks in advance Alex OZ9AEC _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
