[Elecraft] Test KPA100 with one power supply???

[waltk8cv4612amos at att.net]

Everyone's setups are different but .............

I feed the K-2 with KPA-100 and KAT-100 with two supplies for my own 
reasons. A ten amp switching supply powers all my qrp stuff. No fancy 
Anderson power poles stuff for me. Just a Altoids tin with 8 RCA jack thing 
I go from All Electronics. All the plusses and minuses in the Altoids tin 
are tied together and one jack is used as DC in and 7 are used as DC out, 
works for me. So, from there I feed to the K-2 2.1 input jack and another 
lead to the KAT-100 2.1 input jack. Now you could make up a special cable 
with one RCA on one end for the Altoids box and solder it with genuine lead 
solder into a Y with two 2.1 barrel plugs for the tuner and K-2 but I didn't 
do that :-) ! I have another WHOPPING RS-35M Astron supply and feed from a 
plain old 12 screw barrier strip to the KPA-100 and that way for operating 
QRP I just turn off the RS-35M and soon the K-2 display says " no KPA power 
supply " or something like that and it reverts to a qrp radio. The K-2 and 
tuner keep right on operating :-)

Works for me ..............

Walt K8CV Royal Oak, MI.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Kallal" <n6vl at yahoo.com>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 2:04 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] Test KPA100 with one power supply???


>I was wondering it possible to test the KPA100 option with one power 
>supply,
> but with two separate power cables. I have a distribution box with 
> Anderson
> Power Poles. So two power cables is easily possible. My power supply can
> handle 25 amps.
>
> I guess I could use two separate power supplies if absolutely necessary.
>
> 73,
>
> Steve N6VL
>
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