[Elecraft] Help - Elecraft Shutting Down

[Martin Rath]

Hi Ron,

I'm glad I found your email as my K3 (#5426) has been experiencing the same
issues for a couple of days. I did not dismantle it for now to see if it's
related to the burned connector issue as I would like to try it with
another power supply first (and i need to borrow one first from another
ham).

This K3 was used extensively on Reunion Island during 10 days lately as
part of the TO7CC DX Expedition, maybe this has made the issue to appear
now. First I thought that it was related to the power supply but then it
happened at least once when the K3 was on RX. I upgraded the MCU and
DSP1/DSP2 to the latest softwares but that did not resolve the issue.

Let me know if you manage to track your issue down !

Best 73's Martin 9V1RM


On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:43 AM, N6SC <ronedmon at msn.com> wrote:

> Elecraft K3 – The radio just started turning off and shutting down during
> this weekends contest.  No changes have been made to the station in over 6
> months so nothing was done that may be suspect.  Radio has both 10 and 100
> W
> output, and typically run 40 watts out into an Alpha 8410 for drive.
> Troubleshooting,  I throttled the output back to 10 watts, I can operate no
> problem and increased it in 5 watt increments. It start shutting the radio
> down at around 25 watts.  Is there something I should try or does it need a
> trip back into the factory??
>
> Tx
>
> Ron
> N6SC
>
>
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