[Elecraft] KX3: Power Consumption at 15W?

[Tim Henrion]

Running my KX3 on a bench power supply with built-in current monitoring, I haven’t seen it use more than 2.5 amps on SSB, when cranked up to 15W.
I use the Pro Audio Engineering PAE-Kx33 power supply for plug-in travel operation, which is good for 4 amps: https://proaudioeng.com/products/pae-kx33-low-rfi-ac-power-supply/
It’s the size of a small laptop power supply and works quite nicely. 

Tim - KC1EOQ


> On Apr 5, 2016, at 10:38 PM, Tom Crayner <tcrayner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Anyone happen to know power consumption of the KX3 when running at the
> relatively new 15W RF output setting?
> 
> I had read a while back that it was around ~2.1A at 10W.  Looking at tiny
> power supply options and don't want to underrate.
> 
> Tom, W2YF
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