[Elecraft] Odd transverter bugaboo agian --solved

[Don Wilhelm]

Bob,

If the power output of the XV50 is left at 30 watts, you are likely to 
overheat the output module.
Remove the top cover and adjust the Input Attenuator pot near the 
center.  Drive it at 1.00 mW and adjust the pot a bit so the power drops 
to 20 watts.
Set the K3 XVn PWR menu to L 1.00 and you should be good to go.

Sorry about that 'whisker' on the cable, but good to hear that you have 
it corrected.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 1/31/2013 8:02 AM, KD7YZ Bob wrote:
> Hi Don,
>
>> Do you have 50 MHz mapped out in the K3 band mapping?
> Excellent call, Don !
> I'd not fully understood the BND-Map with respect to additional
> transverter implications, especially that the K3 has 50mhz as does the
> XV50. So my error was that I'd unmapped XV650 and allowed K3(50) .
>
> With regards to the bugaboo about 6m xvter nt functional all the time,
> Daisy-Chain Plug #2 measured from the end of the chain, had a very very
> small pigtail extending from where the two cable-bare-ground wires went
> into that pin on the end. The pigtail allowed contact to the adjacent
> non-used pin. Now, I can't say that it mattered since the pin is unused
> in the plug itself. I do knpw that once I clipped the roughly 1/32nd
> extension that no matter how I twisted-about that cable, the XV50
> continued to transmit. 'd missed it I guess the other times I'd opened
> the connector.
>
> Well, I hope this fixed it anyway If I come back in a say or two whining
> about intermittent output on xvtr then its a different matter.
>
> While I have the attention, the outputs power of the XV50 is 30, on its
> LED's and sorta that on the wattmeter(s).
>
> This is good. Except that the indicated drive from the K3, via
> CONFIG:XV1-PWR,  is "L . 12"
>
>   If I allow the setting of 1.0 mw then I can get more out and we know
> this is absolutely not what we want lest I blow the PA.
>
> I'd had it set as the other xvtr's at L 1.0 mw .
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