You can't turn the K3 fully on with the PSU power switch otherwise nearly everyone would be doing it all the time.
Regards, Mike VP8NO ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Ragle" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 5:14 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K2 PA Failure > Am I missing something here? Seems to me that the rational thing > to do > is turn on the power supply and let it stabilize (should only take > a > second or two), then turn on the K2/K3? Turning a K2 or K3 on and > off > using the power supply switch never gives the firmware/software a > chance > to initialize or shut down...just like pulling the plug on your > computer > might well cause at least mild consternation to the machine! There > are > no enormous filter caps in either Kn machine that need to be > serviced at > power on. Seems to me that using a non-matched pair of transistors > is > much more likely to be the cause of failure, as someone has > already > pointed out. > > John Ragle -- W1ZI ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
