[Elecraft] Low power draw, low power out?

[Jim Campbell]

Don and Nick,

Doesn't the K2 drop the power to 2 watts during tune?  Or am I thinking 
of a K2 with the ATU?
I know that I was bitten by this once - I thought something was wrong 
with my K2 when I was
trying to tune it up with a new antenna and I had a power meter in 
line.  I had set the K2 to 5
watts and it was only putting out 2 watts in tune.

Jim
W4BQP

Don Wilhelm wrote:

>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?
>>
>>    
>>
>
>
>
>
>  
>