Pete, The source with the higher voltage will be used, whether that be the batteries or the external supply. Your experiment with lowering the external supply voltage demonstrated that fact.
73, Don W3FPR On 8/16/2012 9:00 PM, Pete Meier wrote: > If you have batteries installed and then plug in an external power supply to > the KX3, which source is actually powering the KX3? > > I noticed that, in the above situation, batteries installed and external > power source connected, that if I lowered the external power source voltage, > the KH3 remained at the battery voltage level. So it appears that the > batteries took over. > > This makes me wonder if that external power source voltage is "touching" the > batteries. > Can someone tell if I need to remove the batteries when I plug in the > external power source? > I don't want to apply that external power supply voltage to my battery pack! > > Pete WK8S > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
