[Elecraft] K3 KPA500 power on 24/7

[Richard S. Leary]

Stephen & Eric,
FWIW. I spent 3 years stuffing 2 shilling coins in my Mother-In-Law's electric meter box in Nottingham (1959-62). That was always fun. My rate here is $0.0503 KW/Hr. And we have so much less static than CA. Sorry folks, my 2 cents, back to the hole. 

73, 
Rick, W7LKG

-----Original Message-----
From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Stephen Prior
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 14:51
To: Elecraft
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 KPA500 power on 24/7

Anyone who, for no really good reason, leaves anything on 24/7, must be paying far less for their electricity than we do over on this side of the Atlantic!

73 Stephen, G4SJP

On 17 November 2014 22:40, norrislawfirm2 <norrislawfirm2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why would you want to leave it on?  It's just wasting power, though 
> being Elecraft, not much.  I turn everything off, ground all antennas, and switch
> the k-line into a dummy load.   Even for the demands of EME the K3 and
> XV-144 are stable in 20 minutes.
>
> I once had the K3 go into a runaway state where it started 
> transmitting on a 12 mhz frequency I use to listen to marine cw during 
> the annual Night of Nights.  Smoke escaped.  Elecraft Support was 
> baffled, but it has never reoccured (after the K3 was repaired).  It could have been my PC.
>
> I leave the K3 unattended when it is running WSPR, but I don't 
> understand what the upside is to leaving everything on when there are 
> known and unknown downsides, static discharges for example.
>
> Stuff Happens.
>
> 73
>
> Eric WD6DBM
>
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