[Elecraft] New product suggestion

[drewko]

The "idea" is to get rid of the extra box, cables and connectors: just
a line cord to the back of the K3 providing a more transportable
low-power or receive-only setup. Seems kind of elegant to me...

73,
Drew
AF2Z




On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:11:03 -0400, you wrote:

>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...
>to me that the power supply issue is pretty well covered.
>