[Elecraft] K3 power loss: Last settings forgotten

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

And the K3 is pretty resistant to the sort of craziness some CPU's
experience with unexpected shutdowns.

I'm not aware of anyone who has had a "crash" of the system due to the power
being pulled unexpectedly. I've done it hundreds of times working with my k3
without any ill effects other than, as you noted, some front panel control
settings may not be stored. 

FWIW that's true of the K2 as well. 

73,

Ron AC7AC



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Erik N Basilier
Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 9:12 AM
To: Guy Olinger, K2AV; elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 power loss: Last settings forgotten

Guy,

I am very familiar with the internals of computers, more than enough to know

that these behaviors can be expected unless one pointedly designs to 
eliminate them, and that *can* be done. There is no fundamental reasons that

any machine that contains a computer needs to behave like a PC. I do not 
mean to criticize the design of the K3, particularly since we know that 
there are more important goals for the designers. My objective was just to 
find out whether the behavior of my K3 was consistent with the K3 design. In

general, I find the K3 to be much more free from those "computerish" 
characteristics than a PC is, and that is one reason I am using a K3 and not

a radio that depends on a PC to function.

73,
Erik K7TV