John, I didn’t think you were suggesting changing breakers. The original post asked if he could change out breakers to a 20A or 30A breaker.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 14, 2018, at 1:39 PM, Jim Brown <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote: > >> On 6/14/2018 4:14 AM, j...@kk9a.com wrote: >> It should be fine to run the KPA500 at reduced power using your existing >> 15 amp outlet, unless you have a lot of other stuff plugged in. > > No power reduction is required -- let's do the simple math. The KPA draws > about 10A at 120v keydown. That 12v (probably 13.8V) supply shouldn't draw > much more than about 2A when the K3 is driving the KPA500, because the KPA > needs less than 30W to get to full power. The 13.8V supply should draw no > more than about 2A with the K3 barefoot at full power keydown. > > 73, Jim K9YC > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to hsherr...@reagan.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
