The AL-1200 needs at least 100 watts input to reach a full 1500 watts out. It’s an excellent, virtually indestructable amp, but a 100 watt output exciter is marginal for it.
Grant NQ5T On May 8, 2014, at 4:12 PM, Phil Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > Assuming the list below is the K3 barefoot into a dummy load (and not the > AL1200 driven by the K3), how much drive does the AL1200 specify? > > Phil w7ox > > On 5/8/14, 1:48 PM, Greg Leber wrote: >> Today when I tried to drive my AL1200 amp I found the K3 was not putting >> out enough power. It drives the KPA500 fine but that only requires about >> 20W. I hooked it to a dummy load and this is what I found. >> 10m 66w ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
