[[email protected]: Re: [Elecraft] PLL Range and a problem when in TUNE.]

Sun Dec 28 01:28:00 2003

Well I rewound T4.  Now when I set the power to 10 watts on 30 meters
tought 10 meters my K2 pulls about 2.5 amps. My K2 stills pulls 5 amps
when the power is set higher that 1 watt on 80 and 40 meters.

Am I winding T4 correctly? Looking at T4 from the front of the case. On 
the left I have two ends of the green hookup wire and one loop of the
green hookup wire. On the top on the green wire I have three loops of
white hookup wire. Then on the right side I have the two ends of the
white hookup wire and two loops of the green hookup wire. On the top
of the green hookup I have two loops of the white hookup wire. Finally
I have the two links as close as possible to the bottom of the cores.

Is there any thing in addition I should take a look at?

-I'm new at this.

Matthew (KC9DQP)

>Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 15:06:09 -0600
>From: "Matthew J. Wolf" <[email protected]>
>To: Ron D'Eau Claire <[email protected]>
>Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] PLL Range and a problem when in TUNE.
>In-Reply-To: <000401c3cb40$723cab70$c5ddfea9@RONPORTABLE>
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>It's a base K2.         
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>Also john w1rt recommend removing and rewinding T4:                         
>  Having just been there, I'd recommend removing and rewinding T4. I 
> believe the links were causing the problem, I ended up putting them in 
> *before* installing the transformer, keeping the routing pretty similar 
> on both sides and generally keeping everything as symmetric as possible. 
>
>I admit that I may have mis-wound T4.
>                                                                                                        
>-Matthew KC9DQP                                                                  

>On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 03:40:14PM -0800, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
>> Is this a K2/100? 
>> 
>> Ron AC7AC
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> I'm a little worried because when I set the power output above 1 watt on 40
>> meters and enter the TUNE mode my K2 pulls 5 amps. Also the measured output
>> while the above happens is around 19 watts. What should I do to try to find
>> the cause of this problem.
>> 
>> Any comments would be welcomed.
>> 
>> - -Matthew Wolf (KC9DQP)
>> 
>> 

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