Hi Andy I blew my 6M Caps one day, but it was 100% my stupidity when I kept bombarding it with a full 100w carrier when I had the amp to go 'online' when it was turned on. This is a firmware setting. It tripped off the first time. I reset it and hit it again (not thinking) and the CAPs blew. I fixed it myself and all I had to do is replace the caps (and repair the board).
I ran mine for years on my remote and made many many mistakes and never had an issue and I tripped it offline a ton of times. In the emails you saw today, you need to ask about the mechanics of the failures first. Mike va3mw On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 3:12 PM Andy Durbin <[email protected]> wrote: > Two post today about KPA500 that seem to have been damaged because the > built in protection was inadequate. What's going on? > > In my station the KPA500 is protected against stupid errors that cause > high SWR by the KPA500 itself, by my KAT500, by my LP100A, and by my > Arduino controller. I hope one of these will stop the smoke getting out. > > 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] > ______________________________________________________________ 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]
