Hi Joe,

Give it half a second (literally). In practice it should never take 
more than 100-200 ms, but this will give you some margin.

I'll also note this in the Owner's Manual.

73,
Wayne
N6KR


On Jun 7, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Joe Planisky wrote:

>  From the owners manual (page 44 in rev D2):
>
> "Remote Power On/Off
>
> A remote-control system can pull the POWER ON line to ground (ACC
> connector, pg. 18) to turn the K3 ON.  To turn it OFF, the controller
> must send the K3 a "PS0;" remote-control command via the RS232
> interface, then deactivate the POWER ON signal.  This sequence ensures
> that nonvolatile memory is updated correctly before shut-down."
>
> Note that it doesn't say how long it takes to update the NVRAM after
> the above process is completed.  In other words, how soon after
> deactivating the POWER ON signal can I shut down the 13.8V supply?
>
> 73
> --
> Joe KB8AP

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