[Elecraft] XV144 upgrade to more power

[7S7V]

Let me put this way: 

http://personales.mundivia.es/ea3axv/elecraft_xv144_50w_mod.htm

Should people of ELECRAFT approve this mod? Any chance for some upgrade KIT 
from ELECRAFT in future?

73' Samir, SM7VZX

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>Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:47:59 +0100
>From: "George Frazer" <gfrazer at gmail.com>
>
>Hi to all on the list.
>
>Samir that would be a nice idea.  The kit works very well but 25w from 
>the XV144 is a bit light.  I am now looking >for an amp to get me up to 
>around the 100w mark.
>
>I have just finished upgrading my K2 with the XV144, KPA100 and KAT100.  
>I enjoyed building all three and learnt >>alot in the process.  I had 
>not built the origional k2 as I had bought it through ebay. It was 
>faulty when I got >it and I upgraded it with the A to B kit and the 60m 
>/ transverter kits. Now thats its a K2/100 with the extras I >am loving 
>it.

>73  George
>GI4SJQ
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>Hello,
>I have the XV144 transverter, which I will use with tube amplifiers (GS31 or 
GS35), so I need more than 25W, >which XV144 barely deliver (being really HOT 
already with 10-15W). Does ELECRAFT have any plans for some >small ?really? 
linear amplifier??? We have K2 and K2/100, why not XV144 and XV144-100???
>
>I know that are many brick amps (MIRAGE) out there ?

>73' Samir, SM7VZX

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>Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:26:54 +0100
>From: "David Ferrington, M0XDF" <M0XDF at Alphadene.co.uk>
>Subject: [Elecraft] Fan for XV144

>
>I have purchased an XV144 to go with my K3 (will arrive when it does). 
>Having read some previous posts about FM and heat and installing a 
>computer fan on the main board, I wondered if anyone could give me some 
>info on the spec of the fan. I have a number of old 1GB SCSI drives in 
>cases that I'm going to dump (unless anyone in UK want to make me an 
>offer :-) and some Sun IPX/IPC stuff too (sorry, not meaning to use 
>this forum as ebay), so probably have a suitable fan if I knew the 
>spec.
>
>The alternative to that is to see in Elecraft will sell me the XV432 
>fan.


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