[Elecraft] KPA100 DC connector WARNING ALERT

[Steve Jackson]

At Field Day, if you will be using your K2 with the
KPA100 ... note that the radio's high-current DC port
is 180 degrees reversed from the national ARES
standard:

http://www.ocraces.org/powerpole.html
http://www.westmountainradio.com/pdf/QSTrr.pdf
http://home.comcast.net/~buck0/app.htm


If other Field Day attendees attempt to connect you
rig to a standard-configured PowerPole fitting, they
will be connecting with reverse polarity, and this
will blow the fuse.

Hopefully there IS a fuse ...

Otherwise, quite a lot of smoke will come out of many
places.

Now that I realize the problem, I will be re-doing my
KPA100 connector with a wire pigtail instead of the PC
mount, to make the rear panel fitting the correct
polarity.  The rear panel is also silk-screened
backwards ( + and - ) from the standard but I will
make a label of some sort to cover that up.

Good luck and be careful out there.  Don't let others
use your K2/KPA100 rig unless they also use YOUR power
wire.  If they try to hook it up to an ARES standard
club power block, uh-oh.

73 Steve KZ1X/4



	
		
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