[Lowfer] Lowfer transmitter testing

[Pat Bunn]

Not sure what happened. Was running cool at about 15 amps at 40 volts  and then one get blew up in a small ball of fire. May have been the antenna . After I shut it down I measured the antenna SWR at 1.5:1. Was using an identical filter to the one Jay recommends.

Had been running for an hour at 300 watts with no problems.

Pat

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On Aug 17, 2013, at 9:02 PM, Andy - KU4XR <ku4xr at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Pat... I heard a few characters here and there, and one very plain XCT, then very shortly
> thereafter, never heard anything else.. possibly the time the FET blew out..
> 
> Andy - KU4XR, Friendsville, TN. EM75xr
> 
> Testing done for the night. cranked
> to power to 600 watts. Was running very cool but lost a FET
> rather spectacularly.
> 
> PaT
> 
> WG2XCT
> 
> 
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