[Elecraft] K3 not transmitting anymore

[David Gilbert]

Personally, I don't see that as a major jeopardy.  A UPS is fairly cheap 
(certainly in comparison to a K3), kicks in within milliseconds, and 
should easily give you enough time to do an orderly shutdown.  Most 
modern UPS's link to the computer via USB and will provide an orderly 
shutdown to the computer, so it might even be possible for Windows to 
execute some sort of script to send the PS0 command to the K3 before it 
shuts the computer down.

In any case, I think the jeopardy for the K3 is not worse than what can 
happen to your computer if it loses the AC mains during a system disk 
write operation.  The potential loss of valuable data and/or having to 
reinstall the operating system is a total pain.

73,
Dave   AB7E



Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy wrote:
> Joe,
>
> Many thanks for your help.
>
> I had been toying with the idea of buying a K3 for use at another QTH, but 
> there the mains supply is not 100% reliable. If bad things can happen if the 
> 13.8V supply shuts down as the result of a mains outage, that is serious.
>
> 73,
> Geoff
> GM4ESD
>
>