[Elecraft] New product suggestion

[John Ragle]

Threads like this one about power supplies must make both the 
transceiver manufacturers and power supply manufacturers gnash their 
teeth and give up in despair! The market already contains a number of 
very small, interference-free supplies that fit this idea: Pyramid, for 
example makes a 30 A. 13.8 V. switcher that measures 8"X8.5"X2.5" that 
sells for a reasonable price, and Tandy also sells one, slightly 
smaller, that delivers 20 A. I have three of these, quite a bit smaller 
than a K2, that work beautifully. They sit about 4" from my K3 and my 
ICOM 910H, and produce no discernible interference whatever.

There may be a need for a much higher capacity switcher -- I have not 
been able to find one that would replace my 2-ton-Tessie Astron 70  -- 
but the low end is very well covered. It seems quite counter-productive 
to shunt high-quality transceiver engineers into the power supply 
business...the K3 is nearly unique, ditto for the KPA-500, but it looks 
to me that the power supply issue is pretty well covered.

Maybe Elecraft should just sell a "meatball" decal emblem for use on 
third-party power supplies?

John Ragle -- W1ZI

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On 4/8/2011 4:51 PM, Eric Champine wrote:
> Hi all.
> I like the PS idea for both the K2 and K3.