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From: Stan Rife
From the description of the noise that the fan on your KPA-100
is making, I'd guess you have a defective fan. I never hear the fan on
my KPA-100. I have a pretty quiet shack, and operate with the volume
fairly low on the K2 and I have only noticed the fan running a few
times.
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On low speed I don't hear the fan at all. On high it is definitely
heard. It is louder than some but not all computer muffin fans I've
had.
As a musician I love a noisy fan. As a ham, I don't.
One of my gripes about the IC-735 was the fan noise. One of the things
I love about TenTec stuff is that they need no fan. Well, the one's
I've owned didn't. Of course the K2 is a small package with a small
heat sink. Ya gotta get rid of the heat somehow and a fan is the way to
do it given the size constraints of the system.
I'm wondering about using a larger (quieter) fan with some sort of duct
system to get the airflow from the fan to the fan-port on the back of
the rig. It could be run off the same fan wires that run the
mini-whizzer and would probably move more air.
The first step with be to run a bit reduced power and see what that
gives me. If it continues to be a annoyance, I'll plop a muffin fan on
top to keep 'er cool & quiet.
- Keith N1AS -
- K2 5411.ssb.100 -
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