At 10:14 AM 12/1/2004, Tom Althoff wrote: >I did not get an answer in the 30 minutes that I called but I also did not get >any Hi Temp warning. The heatsink does get quite warm and with the 5:1 ratio >on TX heat vs RX cool off time I might have been exceeding Elecraft's concept >of intermittant amateur service. If I used the K2 as the CQ machine on 10M >while looking for QSO's on another band I think I'd put a fan on the K2 for >peace of mind if not necessity. > >Has anyone really hammered their K2/100 with high CQ or QSO rates for a 24 >hour period without a secondary fan? I'd be curious how it held up and were >you successful in cooking eggs on it? It might make a good George Forman >portable contest grill.
I run RTTY on my K2/100 on occasion - this gets it quite warm, even at the 40W spec - I use a 12V fan right on the heat sink and it stays nice and cool even during a contest - if you want to be sure, use a fan. why risk it? hope this helps - jeff wk6i -- Jeff Stai [EMAIL PROTECTED] Twisted Oak Winery http://www.twistedoak.com/ Rocketry Org. of CA http://www.rocstock.org/ Amateur Radio WK6I _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] 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
