[Elecraft] KX3 current

[Wayne Burdick]

Hi Igor,

The 150 mA target is with the backlight off. It's a transflective  
display, so it's highly visible even with no backlight, except at  
night. But we'll have a low setting of the backlight that adds very  
little current drain -- maybe 10 mA.

The LCD itself, and its controller, draw almost no power, so turning  
the display completely off wouldn't buy anything.

However, we'll be looking at various ways to cut current drain and  
will explain them in the owner's manual, as we did for the K2.

73,
Wayne
N6KR



On May 30, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Igor Kosvin wrote:

> Wayne,
>
> Is the 150mA RX current of KX3 is with the LCD display on and some  
> level
> backlight active? What if there could be option to the display go to  
> "sleep"
> if no knobs are touched for some time? Kind of like screen saving  
> mode.
> Could that be considered? I bet the display takes considerable  
> current draw
> out of KX3 budget. I wander if you have figured the budget, I.e. how  
> much
> each stage draws.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Igor, N1YX
>
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