[Elecraft] K2 voltage drop across D10 and F1

Masleid, Michael A. [email protected]
Fri Nov 14 19:06:01 2003


Hello Ed,

>Can someone tell me how much voltage drop they see between receive and
>transmit while displaying current and voltage.  I am seeing about a 0.9 =
volt
>drop when Key down and the K2 drawing about 2.5 Amps.

Digikey shows the minimum cold resistance of an RGE300 at 0.034 ohms.
That's only about 0.085 volts drop at 2.5 amps.  Of course, the =
resistance
goes up a bit with temperature.

73, de Michael, AB9GV=20