I have the schematics, as someone was kind enough to send them to me. Yes, I forgot the KPA500 powers up in Operate. It is the only Amp I own that does this.
I will mention it to Elecraft when I chat with them later today and suggest the default should be the other way around. Mike va3mw On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 8:27 AM ANDY DURBIN <a.dur...@msn.com> wrote: > "The unit was powered on and it came up in operate mode while the HF radio > was in TX at 100w on 6M. End result is that the magic smoke got out. :)" > > > I suspect this is a very common mistake for ops who sometimes use the amp > and sometimes operate barefoot. I thought the KPA500 was designed to > protect against that user error. Seems I was wrong. > > > Suggest you contact support for schematics. Unless their policy has > changed recently they will provide them to you. > > > Andy, k3wyc > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to va...@portcredit.net > ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com