[Elecraft] Low power draw, low power out?

[Don Wilhelm]

Nick,

With both low power out and low current drawn, there is clearly not enough
energy being developed by one of the transmit stages.

If you have not already, build up the RF Probe that came with the K2 kit and
do the Transmitter Signal Tracing steps detailed in the Troubleshooting
Appendix of the K2 manual.  Once you locate the stage where the RF Voltage
level is significantly lower than that which is expected, the problem will
be just before that stage.

Once you have localized the problem to one stage, we can help you localize
the component at fault.

73,
Don W3FPR

> -----Original Message-----
>
> K2 #5209, Set at 5W, TUNE, I'm drawing only 1.0A, and should expect 1.3
> to 1.6. Similarly, set at 10W TUNE, I'm drawing 1.02A, not 1.8 to 2. I'm
> pretty sure I'm not putting out the power I should be, and DL1+DMM also
> implies I'm only putting out about 2-4W, not 5-10. This would be at
> 7100kHz during 40m TX alignment. Is there some way to calibrate the
> power output using DL1 and my DMM, or have I built something wrong?
>