James, You will not hurt the K3, but if the transformers saturate, you will get distortion. As long as the level of distortion is OK to your ears, I would judge everything to be OK.
73, Don W3FPR James Sarte wrote: > Greetings to the group! > > Quick question: I normally keep the line out set to 5 or 10; I haven't seen > the need until now to increase it. I recently discovered a recording > utility built in to HRD, and leaving the line out level at 5 or 10 usually > results in a low-volume recording. I've fiddled around with the setting and > have found that a line output level of 50 is pretty good. However, I just > want to make sure that doing so is safe for the K3. I've monitored the > audio from the PC, and I haven't noticed any sort of overdrive condition. > On the other hand, the manual states that setting the line out to anything > above 10 may cause saturation of the KIO3's isolation transformers. > > Thoughts? > Vy 73 and a Happy New Year to all! > > James K2QI > > ______________________________________________________________ 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
