[Elecraft] TGE voltage booster dynamics with K3

[Wayne Burdick]

On Jan 4, 2016, at 4:50 PM, Oliver Johns <ojohns at metacosmos.org> wrote:

> I had a nonsense subject line on my previous submission of this.  So, resubmitting it in case someone has some ideas.
> 
> 
> Like John, T6EE, I use a TGE Solutions booster unit.  (In my case the marine model
> <http://stores.tgelectronics.org/n8xjk-marine-booster <http://stores.tgelectronics.org/n8xjk-marine-booster>>  with a 35Ah AGM battery.)
> It is set for 14 volts and, according to the K3 voltage metering, holds that voltage 
> with battery voltage as low as 11 Volts, which is low as I like to go.
> 
> My question is, has anyone with an oscilloscope done any tests of the DYNAMIC behaviour of 
> this or similar units under the rapidly varying load presented by SSB?  If the voltage fluctuates
> under a rapidly varying load, this could lead to distortion in the K3 output…

...as well as that of any other transceiver...

> regardless of the 
> DC load values.
> 


Wayne
N6KR