[Elecraft] Killed the KPA500 :)

[Ken Winterling]

The power up state, “standby” or “operate”, is programmable.  I’ve always
felt is was safer to have an amp power up in standby in most cases.  Some
remote operators may want it to power up in “operate” but would have to
take measures to ensure the exciter was in standby at the time.

Ken
WA2LBI

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 08:58 Michael Blake via Elecraft <
elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> My KPA500 does not power up in operate.  It always powers up in Standby.
>
> 73 - Mike - K9JRI
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> > On Nov 16, 2018, at 8:52 AM, Michael Walker <va3mw at portcredit.net>
> wrote:
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> > I have the schematics, as someone was kind enough to send them to me.
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> > Yes, I forgot the KPA500 powers up in Operate.  It is the only Amp I own
> > that does this.
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> > I will mention it to Elecraft when I chat with them later today and
> suggest
> > the default should be the other way around.
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> > Mike va3mw
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> > On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 8:27 AM ANDY DURBIN <a.durbin at msn.com> wrote:
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> >> "The unit was powered on and it came up in operate mode while the HF
> radio
> >> was in TX at 100w on 6M. End result is that the magic smoke got out. :)"
> >>
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> >> I suspect this is a very common mistake for ops who sometimes use the
> amp
> >> and sometimes operate barefoot. I thought the KPA500 was designed to
> >> protect against that user error. Seems I was wrong.
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> >> Suggest you contact support for schematics. Unless their policy has
> >> changed recently they will provide them to you.
> >>
> >>
> >> Andy, k3wyc
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Ken
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