No worries. That's a normal amount of heat. We also heatsink one of the DC voltage regulators to the right side of the case. That's most of the heat you are feeling.
No way you will hurt anything at that low of a power (or higher). 73, Eric WA6HHQ Elecraft === eric norris wrote: > My K3 is now up and running with WSPR 2.0 under CAT control, but WSPR only > changes the freq not the mode or power--if this is not right and someone > knows what dumb error I might be making, please email me off list. > > Also, even running at 1watt out, 20% TX cycle, the right side of the rig gets > warm. I'm worried about running more power and a higher duty cycle. I seem > to remember some discussion on the reflector a while back about being able to > force the PA on even at low power to keep things cool. What, if anything > became of that? > > 73, Eric WD6DBM > -- _..._ ______________________________________________________________ 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
