Hi all, Just wanted to reach out and say a great big THANK YOU to my good friend and fellow NJDXA and FRC member Dave, WO2X for taking point and finding a fix for my perpetually noisy KPA-1500 power supply fan. It had always been annoying, but after the Covid lockdown and my wife had to work from home, she was in the office/hamshack here 10+ hours a day, and leaving the KPA powered up in standby was just too loud for her to concentrate.
It cost about $64 shipped to get the replacement front panel LED board, which includes a higher-value 3W resistor that reduces the idling fan noise to almost nothing now. It's a very simple mod that in retrospect I could have done myself, but for me with my shaky hands and not-great eyesight it's a big plus to have a friend like Dave who knows his stuff. If you have an older KPA1500 and the PSU fans (not the RF deck fans) were driving you nuts, this mod works great, and eliminates a big source of frustration. --------------------------------------------- 73 and Good DX Peter, W2IRT President, North Jersey DX Association DXCC Card Checker Letter O Manager, ARRL Incoming 2nd District QSL bureau ______________________________________________________________ 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]
