I remember the bright yellow glow from the final in my Heathkit
DX-40 when I forgot to connect the antenna. At least the plate
didn't melt and the tube still worked.
I had a 100W K3 with no tuner and one of my antennas needed a
tuner, probably for 30M. I used the T1, with the caveat that I
would always lower the power when running through it. Well, I
screwed up one time. I think what I noticed was that as my PSK31
macro ran, the SWR kept rising.
I think I got the cores hot enough to change their magnetic
properties. When they cooled off, everything went back to normal.
But as I said, Elecraft equipment tends to survive forays well
outside their specs.
73 Bill AE6JV
On 4/7/19 at 11:47 AM, [email protected] (Wayne Burdick) wrote:
Bill Frantz wrote:
(I won't mention...
too late!
the time I ran 100W through a T1 tuner. It wasn't for long and
the tuner survived.)
Ouch. We did T1 tests at 50 W to make sure it could handle 20
W, and even that was an invitation-only event, with observers
at a distance wearing safety goggles. How long it would survive
a KPA1500 is left as an exercise for the reader. I'm imagining
a soft blue glow from the toroids.
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