Mine starts working at speed 1 around 40C. Fully automatic and 28C idle. Ed.. AB4IQ
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of KENT HUFFORD Sent: Friday, July 10, 2020 2:48 PM To: 'N4ZR' <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] FW: NO AUTO FAN ON KPA-1500 Yes, that’s what mine has done for 2 years. BUT, the fans do not come on when the temp goes up, except with the PC programs. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of N4ZR Sent: Friday, July 10, 2020 3:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] FW: NO AUTO FAN ON KPA-1500 Funny, my 1500 increases speed with increasing temp. Above 70C it's quite the howler. 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at <http://reversebeacon.net>, now spotting RTTY activity worldwide. For spots, please use your favorite "retail" DX cluster. On 7/10/2020 3:13 PM, KENT HUFFORD wrote: > Yes, Larry, I found your great program, and using it instead of the Elecraft > KPA1500 Remote software. With your program it reads the WORKING Temp sensor > in the amp and increases the speed as required automatically. > > With the Elecraft KPA1500 Remote software, it also reads the WORKING temp > sensor, but you have to manually increase the speed as you want. > > STILL does not fix the issue within the amp of not automatically increasing > the fan speed as the temp goes up. > > Thank you for your program. Great stuff. > > Kent > KQ4KK > > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Gauthier (K8UT) <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, July 10, 2020 3:03 PM > To: KENT HUFFORD <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] NO AUTO FAN ON KPA-1500 > > You could use the freeware FANticipator app for fan control. > > https://hamprojects.info/fanticipator-kpa1500-console-and-fan-controll > er/ > > -larry (K8UT) > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "KENT HUFFORD" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: 2020-07-10 2:26:31 PM > Subject: [Elecraft] NO AUTO FAN ON KPA-1500 > >> I have a KPA-1500 SN 329 that is working great. >> >> >> >> However, when the temp goes above 40C the fans do not come on the amp >> unit like they used to. >> >> >> >> I reloaded firmware 02.38 to see if that helped. It did not. >> >> >> >> However, when I run the KPA1500 Remote software I can run the fans >> from there ok. Just not in the MIN FAN: AUTO mode. I can click and >> start each fan, so I can keep the temp under control. >> >> >> >> BUT, in the AUTO mode they never start. >> >> >> >> ?? >> >> >> >> Kent Hufford >> >> KQ4KK >> >> 803-392-7339 >> >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> >> > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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]
