My K3 is having a problem on 30 meters but is fine on all other bands. While transmitting into a 50 ohm dummy load and verifying that the SWR is better than 1.1:1, if I set the output power level above 80 watts on 30 meters, I get a "HI CUR" message. When that happens, the K3 indicates that it is drawing slightly more than 24 amps and the voltage as measured by the K3 is 12.6 volts. This current level is quite a bit higher on 30 meters running 80 watts than on any other band running 100 watts. Any ideas why the behavior should be so different on 30 meters? By the way, I don't have the ATU. Also, I don't think this just happened recently. I bought the K3 a year ago and it might have been this way from day 1 but I'm retired and it takes a while to get around to things :-)..
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