I use top run 600w with my 2m-8877 running on a HV PS that ran on 120vac. As I recall voltage drop was about 5vac, but my house is wired with 12ga wiring. When I switched to a bigger PS that could provide enough to run 1.5kW on the 8877 I ran 240vac to the shack using about 35 foot of 8-4 wiring (3-8ga plus safety ground). I decided on using twist-lock receptacles and plugs. All the material was bought at Home Depot.
I am now in process of wiring in a transfer switch at my meter to permanently connect my 6500w Honda standby generator. The generator takes a four-prong twist lock plug. BTW my line runs 244vac unloaded and 242vac when key-down with 1400w CW. I added two 120vac circuits to run some other power supplies from the new 240v power feed (I installed a 40A load box in the shack with one 240v-20A and two 120v-20A breakers). Now I wil have to add another 240v outlet to run a 50v-50A switching PS for my 1100w 6m PA. 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45 ====================================== BP40IQ 500 KHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com EME: 50-1.1kw?, 144-1.4kw, 432-100w, 1296-60w, 3400-? DUBUS Magazine USA Rep [email protected] ====================================== ______________________________________________________________ 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
