[Elecraft] K3 Suddenly Putting Out Only 25 watts at 100 watts indicated

[Ted Bryant]

" The previous times ..." - ?

Good grief, how many times has this FET failed?

Ted W4NZ


-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Wes Stewart
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2018 3:09 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Suddenly Putting Out Only 25 watts at 100 watts indicated

If you see low power it's a clue.  I operate my K3S + KPA500 as a 500W 
transceiver, except when I'm running IMD tests, so the last time it happened I 
was notified of bad audio.

The previous times the wattmeter or IMD tests were the clues.

Wes  N7WS

On 12/13/2018 12:03 PM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
> It would be nice to know what conditions caused this FET failure. Is there
> an easy way to know when this failure occurs other than getting crappy
> audio reports?
>
> John KK9A
>

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