[Elecraft] K3 Current Drain When Off

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Stephen, when I wrote "my mistake" I meant it was my mistake, not Jim's. I
was responding to Jim whose message I appended to my reply.

FYI, my test setup:

1) K3 disconnected from *everything* including the station ground. 

2) Plugged in the two wires from my power supply with the DMM inserted in
series with the positive lead. 

3) DMM reads 0 mA. Turn on the power supply. Did not turn K3 on. DMM reads
38 mA.

4) Disconnected lead to KPA3 circuit breaker in K3. Current dropped to about
1 mA (fixed range on the DMM and I didn't bother to change that). 

Wayne did not specify what he meant by a "few mA" being normal when the K3
is off, but in my case it's 38 mA with KPA3 installed and almost nothing
with it disconnected. 

73, Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----
Ron,

I'm not sure if your posting was directed at me or not, but I didn't
mentally move the decimal point :-)  It was a fundamental limitation of the
(good, I thought) DMM I was using.
It just goes to show that you can't always believe what your measuring
instrument is telling you, as I tell my students frequently!

73, Stephen G4SJP