[Elecraft] My power supply solution
Edward R Cole
kl7uw at acsalaska.net
Wed Sep 19 02:03:31 EDT 2012
First off PS are widely available and there is no incentive for
Elecraft to expend design effort. IF they decided to offer one it
would likely be a repackaged PS from a vendor. And that might be
desirable to many who want a nice visually integrated station (aka "pretty").
MY station runs 18 bands from 600m thru 9cm at home. I power the 12v
equipment with a 50A Astron rack-mounted supply. It feeds thru about
12-foot of #4 welding cable to the 30A main Buss fuse at the
distribution terminal strip.
The 28v equipment runs from two supplies: a Motorola CCS 500w
repeater supply and a 8A adjustable 22-30v supply (for relays,
etc.). 13.8v drops to about 13.3v under 25A load.
MY 6m QRO SSPA runs from a HP 50v-50A switching supply (230vac
input). And my 2m-8877 runs on a 4kV 1.5A modified commercial supply.
I have a B&K 0-30v 3A bench supply and 0-15v Astron VS-35M on the bench.
The dish runs with a 28v 50A military surplus PS.
73, Ed - KL7UW
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