[Elecraft] Drive Control - K3 and FPA-1500

[Kent Trimble]

Pete ...

Overshoot was a problem in the early K3s (plural, not S), but was 
corrected in firmware.  Surely the K3S never had it at all.

But apparently so for yours.

If you have the latest (i.e. final) firmware installed, a quick phone 
call to Elecraft support should solve it.  There are just too many of 
both rigs out there for it to be a problem anymore.

73,
Kent
K9ZTV


On 11/7/2022 7:31 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
> Thanks, Kent - that's what I thought, but it doesn't seem to be 
> working. I generally use the internal tuner, and I was hopping around 
> a lot within bands, but unfortunately I didn't collect data on which 
> hops produced warnings - either excessive current warnings or 
> over-power readings on the LED scale.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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> On 11/6/2022 9:29 PM, K9ZTV wrote:
>> Pete ...
>>
>> You have to first set the drive manually per-band on the K3. Once 
>> that is done, the K3 adjusts its drive to whatever you have set it to 
>> when changing to that new band.
>>
>> 73,
>> Kent
>> K9ZTV
>>
>>> On Nov 6, 2022, at 7:05 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR<pete.n4zr at gmail.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Just finished SS, and on many occasions when switching bands I 
>>> found myself overdriving the KPA-1500 on the new band.  No harm 
>>> done, but I thought the K3/KPA-1500 combination was supposed to 
>>> manage drive on a per-band basis.  Did I get that wrong?
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> 73, Pete N4ZR
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