[Elecraft] Drive Control - K3 and FPA-1500

[N2TK, Tony]

When you change bands and key the K3/KPA1500 do you see a spike in power and then the power out settles down and is fine till you switch bands? Then you have a spike in power on the initial keying?
Just wondering 
N2TK, Tony

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> On Nov 7, 2022, at 7:54 AM, Kent Trimble <k9ztv at socket.net> wrote:
> 
> 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?
>>>> 
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