Jim, Your unit is about the same age as mine (#3645) which was sent to Elecraft a few months ago for what I thought would be installation of some upgrades I couldn't do myself. Turns out they found (and fixed) several items including two resistors in the LPA that appeared burned and were replaced with "more robust components". Your problem sounds similar to what I had seen but not as severe.
My K3 came back acting like a new puppy. I'm not saying yours needs to be sent in; just wanted to share what my experience with a similar s/n rig had been. Cheers, Clark, WU4B On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 1:26 PM Jim Kennedy <kenned...@cableone.net> wrote: > Fired up my K3 the last couple of mornings and noticed this. As the > autotuner was searching for a solution the power output was slowing rising. > Not so unusual right . But, after the tuner made a match the K3 was reading > about 40w of output. I went into tune mode again (key down), the antenna > was matched 1:1 but the output was slowly coming up so I let it continue. A > slow climb to full output after about a minute or so was achieved. I have > eliminated the tuner as the problem by using it on another transceiver. I'm > thinking it may be a heat related issue somewhere, my guess is it's > possibly on the PA board and possibly a solder problem, but then again it > could be that same issue anywhere in the drive chain. If I don't transmit > for a period of time it will repeat but not as bad as from a cold start. No > other abnormal behavior has been noted. Any ideas ? Thanks in advance. > Serial # 3378 > > Jim > W7OUU > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 clark.macau...@gmail.com > -- 73, Clark, WU4B QRPARCI #10815 SKCC #3892 NAQCC #5055 CWOPS #1869 Collins Collectors #AC90-12432 Southeastern DX Club <http://www.sedxc.org> North Georgia QRP Club <http://www.nogaqrp.org> *"It is vain to do with more what can be done with less."* *Attributed to *William of Occam (1288 AD - 1348 AD) ______________________________________________________________ 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
