All are good suggestions, this and the others. I will try them out and report back. At this point, my money is on my flimsy clips.
FTR, I do have an inline 7.5A fuse, automotive dual blade type. To Matt: maybe I am still not communicating clearly. The SWR does not vary ceteris paribus, only when I go on certain bands (or even only one band). I didn't make a record of which one and how many but I did tune each band from 160 to 10m (except 60m). The balun is specified for 200W (LDG). No metal contact along the feedline. Antenna is 14 gauge, twin is 18 gauge, coax is RG-8x. Nothing else is running off the battery (a UPS type). -----Original Message----- From: Ralf Wilhelm [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 13:19 To: Arno Dienhart Cc: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KX3 power reverts from 10W back to 5W Hi Arno, If your fully charged batt reads 11.4 V AFTER the KX3 has switched back to 5 W, the voltage reading with 10 W (maybe 50% more current?) will most probably be below 11 V. I would suggest that you try to gradually increase the output power from 5 Watts and read the voltage and currents from the KX3s meters. This way you will have a measure for the voltage drop and the series resistance in your battery connection and power leads. Greetings Ralf DL6OAP ______________________________________________________________ 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
