[Elecraft] New product suggestion

[Andrew Faber]

How about Elecraft's commissioning one of the PS manufacturers to design a 
package to fit into a P3 enclosure.  There's lots of space in there for a 
PS, not to mention a good speaker.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Ragle" <tpcj1r03 at crocker.com>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] New product suggestion


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