Sometimes I'll walk way from my tube amp and leave it in standby mode and turn off my K3. Well, a few weeks ago I forgot to put it in standby and I came back to the radio from working on my antenna outside and the swr was changed which was set on the tuner. When I turned on my K3, I damaged the amp. I forgot that when you first turn on the K3 that it transmits a signal (the clicking sounds when it fires up) for about a second or so and damaged my amp because of a high swr. Never again I will leave the amp without putting it in standby. Very costly mistake. The amp was set at 1100 watts. To make a long story short, I had the tubes replaced along with other things in the amp and power supply. I could have bought that new P3 for the amount of money that I spent for my error. Now that new P3 will be on the back burner for a while. -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Beware-Make-Sure-Your-Amp-Is-In-Standby-If-You-Turn-On-the-K3-tp4957724p4957724.html Sent from the [K3] 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]
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