[Elecraft] KPA500 - Full Power Keydown

Michael Eberle mteberle at mchsi.com
Sat Apr 25 05:06:28 EDT 2015


I have run JT65 at full power without any problems, but I manually set 
the minimum fan speed to 6 during transmit.  May not be necessary but I 
don't like for things to get any warmer than necessary.

Mike
KI0HA

On 4/25/2015 3:33 AM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft wrote:
> How long can you run the full 500 Watts for (duration)?
>
> I know the Manual states "Duty Cycle at 500 Watts 10 minutes key down / 5 minutes standby"
> For those running Full power Keydown modes (SSTV, ETC) what has been your experience?
>
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> Thank you
>
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