[Elecraft] K2 on 160m with battery power?

[Pierre Fillinger]

Hello,

My K2 is drawing a lot of current, on 160 W. I cannot go above 3 W, and it
draws 3 Amps, on a 50 ohms dummy load.
This is not changing, if I connect it to a battery, or to an external power
supply, even at 15.0 Volts. In addition, I can see that the Volts, on the
display, are  wandering around, despite the stability of the power supply
itself.
N6WG suggested that the Low Pass Filter is not set where it should,
therefore the low power. (BTW, thanks for the suggestion !)
It can make sense. However, I had no time to check the LPF, with the antenna
analyzer.

Regards, Pierre

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Johnson" <dave@astromag.co.uk>
To: <Elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 10:06 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] K2 on 160m with battery power?


> I've searched the earlier posts without seeing a satisfactory reason why
the
> K2 draws so much current on 160m
> 73's Dave, G4AON