[Elecraft] [K1-2277] Voltage Check P1 pin 16 voltage is Supply - 0.24V not Supply - 0.3V

Don Wilhelm w3fpr at earthlink.net
Wed Jun 6 23:47:00 EDT 2007


Richard,

You may be cutting the straws too thin.

What that means is simply that your series diode has a voltage drop of 
0.24 volts rather than the nominal 0.3 volts - that is 'goodness' - a 
low voltage drop across the protective diode is to be desired.

73,
Don W3FPR

Richard Hill wrote:
> I'm trying to determine whither I have a problem or not.  I measured my
> supply voltage at 13.22 V.
> 
> My voltage check at P1 pin 16 shows a voltage of 12.98 V (Supply - 0.24V).
> If I calculate the predicted voltage it would be 12.92 V (Supply - 0.3V).


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