Almost 30 years ago, when I designed the AL1200 amplifier, it included a rough relative voltmeter like most other amps had except I included a cheap peak voltage detector.
I thought I'd calibrate the cheap relative voltmeter scale, making the scale show peak watts instead of zero through ten like most other meters. I warned it was only accurate into 50 ohm loads, and was a relative meter that read PEP. It cost the customer nothing, and I thought it was better to have something that read power with pretty fair accuracy if the load was close to 50 ohms j0 then to just say 0-10. Over the years we had a flurry compliants like the clock complaints. Never once did I hear "Hey, at least that's better than zero through ten like my XYZ". The lesson I learned was to never give the public some bonus-for-nothing unless the gift is flawless. Myself, I would be unwilling to pay even $1 more to have an accurate clock in the K3. 73 Tom ______________________________________________________________ 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
