[Elecraft] Power has disappeared

Phil Wheeler w7ox at socal.rr.com
Tue Jul 26 21:52:43 EDT 2016


K3 or K3s?

On 7/26/16 5:48 PM, Chris Kimball wrote:
> I'm a new owner and all worked fine.  After an absence of a few days I came
> back to no power out, or , at least, very little.
>
> Rig is the 100W version with ATU working into a dummy load.  In CW mode
> adjusting the power level to 70W produces only a one segment power out.
> Running the ATU produces a 5W indication, the usual searching rumbling, but
> no resultant SWR. The Test mode is NOT in operation.
>
> I have restored to the last working config via K3 Utility, but suspect I
> must have "hit" something to limit the power.  The FP and AMP temps were too
> high (35C) when the problem was noticed. I set them down to a more
> reasonable 23C without effect. Input voltage is 12.8V.
>
> Probably something trivial, but suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Chris
> NQ8Z



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