Lee I had exactly the same problem at FD this year. Before I illuminate the problem a little background. We were running 2A with additional GOTA and VHF stations. Last year the very noisy old 6KW generator puked a piston so it was time to retire it. We wanted a new generator that could be carried by one and quiet. We chose a Honda EU2000 thinking if we needed more capacity we could parallel it with a second generator.
We set up each station with a 100ah battery with charger. The batteries would act as filters since the automotive chargers were totally without filtering or regulation. The batteries would act as power demand leveling as well since demand was expected to exceed 2KW with everyone key down. I was behind my K3 changing the unused antenna when my operating partner indicated the K3 had turned off. Thinking it was something I had done I circled around and turned the K3 back on. My partner resumed the contact but the K3 soon died again. A spin of K3 metering VFO2 dial showed <11VDC. I checked with our CW station who was still pounding brass. He indicated his Laptop had died so he was now paper logging. Finally we realized the generator had stopped. When refueling the generator it was cool indicating it had been off for some time. We had operated totally on batteries until the batteries started to fail, one by one. Conclusion: A little acoustical noise from the generator is a good thing. 73, Fred, AE6QL -----Original Message----- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Lee Buller Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 7:16 PM To: Elecraft Reflector Subject: [Elecraft] K3 just goes off This has not happened to me before.... Running some FD here on CW for about an hour in an AC room PA 35C FP 31C The rig just went off. Dead. Power supply is ON. Pressed the power button....comes back on. Anyone see this before....I have not. Lee In our day and age it seems that Common Sense is in short supply. If you don't have any Common Sense - get some Common Sense and use it. If you can't find any Common Sense, ask for help from somebody who has some Common Sense. Is Common Sense divine? Common Sense is the image of the Creator expressing revealed truth in my mind. - John W. (Kansas) Never interfere with anything that isn't bothering you. ______________________________________________________________ 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
