You bet, Vic. Just read the reviews of antenna tuners in QST, with careful attention to the amount of power absorbed in the tuner at some load impedance/reactance combinations, and imagine 600 watts being dissipated inside a 500-watt tuner.
73, Pete N4ZR The World Contest Station Database, updated daily at www.conteststations.com The Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com, spots at telnet.reversebeacon.net, port 7000 and arcluster.reversebeacon.net, port 7000 On 5/19/2012 4:39 PM, Vic K2VCO wrote: > Oops, wrong again! I see that they make the claim that it will handle > 1200-1500 watts on > the website. But I suspect you have to be very careful! > > On 5/19/2012 1:32 PM, Vic K2VCO wrote: >> I would expect that this would depend not only on the SWR, but on the nature >> of the >> impedance it sees. Unless someone from Elecraft told you this, I wouldn't >> risk running >> 1500 watts at 3:1 SWR (if Elecraft DID tell you this, then I'm ordering one)! >> >> On 5/19/2012 11:41 AM, N5GE wrote: >>> I will >>> handle 10:1 SWR at 500 - 600 watts and 1200 to 1500 watts at 3:1 SWR. >> >> -- >> Vic, K2VCO >> Fresno CA >> http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/ > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
