And the K3 is pretty resistant to the sort of craziness some CPU's experience with unexpected shutdowns.
I'm not aware of anyone who has had a "crash" of the system due to the power being pulled unexpectedly. I've done it hundreds of times working with my k3 without any ill effects other than, as you noted, some front panel control settings may not be stored. FWIW that's true of the K2 as well. 73, Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Erik N Basilier Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 9:12 AM To: Guy Olinger, K2AV; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 power loss: Last settings forgotten Guy, I am very familiar with the internals of computers, more than enough to know that these behaviors can be expected unless one pointedly designs to eliminate them, and that *can* be done. There is no fundamental reasons that any machine that contains a computer needs to behave like a PC. I do not mean to criticize the design of the K3, particularly since we know that there are more important goals for the designers. My objective was just to find out whether the behavior of my K3 was consistent with the K3 design. In general, I find the K3 to be much more free from those "computerish" characteristics than a PC is, and that is one reason I am using a K3 and not a radio that depends on a PC to function. 73, Erik K7TV ______________________________________________________________ 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
