According to the KPA500 Owner's Manual you can input 200 W in standby (page 16).
"A related question, what if I accidentally put the 200W in in operate? Just covering all my bases here." Put some money away for the repair bill. I think the theory is that that KPA500 will switch in 3 dB attenuation then fault and drop to bypass but I have seen a least one report of a KPA500 damaged with 100 W drive. It's not worth the risk. Design your station so the KPA500 cannot be keyed if transceiver power setting is more than about 40 W. At that power input the 3 dB attenuator should protect the KPA500. 73, Andy, k3wyc ______________________________________________________________ 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]
