G'day again, I feel such a fool!
I almost have to ask everyone to disregard my previous post. After turning off all the equipment ready to shuffle off to bed (it's very late/early here) I'm looking at the lab style bench power supply that I'm using an realise that it's max supply current is only 2.5A. I was hitting the current max of the supply and it was going into 'current limit' dropping the supply voltage to about 10-11 volts and I had not realised. Switching to a slighly larger lab supply capable of 3.0A output changes things slightly! I'm now getting the following power output from my K2:- 80m - 17.2w 40m - 16.5w 30m - 15.7w 20m - 15.6w 17m - 15.6w 15m - 14.5w 12m - 14.0w 10m - 11.5w Again these figures from the internal K2 power meter but the CB radio pwr/swr meter agrees. Very happy chap with these figures :) So now the only question that remains is the current draw. The K2 now shows current draw values between 2.58A and 2.92A. Is this current draw 'normal' for these power output figures? Cheers, and sorry to trouble the group with my false alarm! Steve VK2SJA K2 S/N 5556 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
