Stephen & Eric, FWIW. I spent 3 years stuffing 2 shilling coins in my Mother-In-Law's electric meter box in Nottingham (1959-62). That was always fun. My rate here is $0.0503 KW/Hr. And we have so much less static than CA. Sorry folks, my 2 cents, back to the hole.
73, Rick, W7LKG -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Prior Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 14:51 To: Elecraft Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 KPA500 power on 24/7 Anyone who, for no really good reason, leaves anything on 24/7, must be paying far less for their electricity than we do over on this side of the Atlantic! 73 Stephen, G4SJP On 17 November 2014 22:40, norrislawfirm2 <[email protected]> wrote: > Why would you want to leave it on? It's just wasting power, though > being Elecraft, not much. I turn everything off, ground all antennas, and > switch > the k-line into a dummy load. Even for the demands of EME the K3 and > XV-144 are stable in 20 minutes. > > I once had the K3 go into a runaway state where it started > transmitting on a 12 mhz frequency I use to listen to marine cw during > the annual Night of Nights. Smoke escaped. Elecraft Support was > baffled, but it has never reoccured (after the K3 was repaired). It could > have been my PC. > > I leave the K3 unattended when it is running WSPR, but I don't > understand what the upside is to leaving everything on when there are > known and unknown downsides, static discharges for example. > > Stuff Happens. > > 73 > > Eric WD6DBM > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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]
