Yes, I am glad this is a great feature in my K3. It actually works well and saved my radio too. Good job Elecraft in keeping the customer.
JIM DAVIS-11 wrote: > > To the "Elecraft Crew", > > Many thanks for building into the K3 to sense when the AC power is not > there and "shut-off" > completely! > > I say this because earlier this morning here locally there was a PG&E > power outage. Initially the > juice went off and then just a few mil-secs the power tried to come back > on, which would mean > there'd be > a huge power surge to follow! I had my finger on the Astron-50m to switch > the rig off but I did'nt > have to really do that, in that the K3 sensed the power cut-off and "shut > down" immediately. > Everybody knows what "power-surges" can do to our solid-state rigs, and > eventhough most of our > power-distribution strips SUPPOSEDLY have protection against such > occurrences I've found that NOT > all > of them are cracked up to what they advertise!!! > > Many thanks for saving our "BABY!" > > Jim/nn6ee > S/N 2406 > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Power-surge%21-tp2380382p2398553.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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
