Dale, This could be the case that the PA bias is not turned off in the new version. Eric can check this on Monday. 73, Gerald
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dale Boresz > Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 10:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Higher P/S current w/ ver. 1.3.3 > > > Hi Bill, > > It seems likely that it's the PA that is drawing the extra .75A, and > since your configuration does not include the PA, that may explain why > you don't see the same increase in p/s current that I do. Perhaps > something which should be turning off the bias current of the finals, > isn't doing so. > > Today I left the fan off and just let the radio run in receive mode. > When I opened up the box after about 3 hours, the heatsink of the PA was > very warm, and the two finals were too hot to keep my fingers on them. > > 73, Dale WA8SRA > > Bill Tracey wrote: > > > I do not see any difference on my setup (RFE, no PA, fan powered from > > radio) with current draw on 1.3.3. Cold start of the hardware draws > > about 0.67 A, bring up 1.3.3 remains at 0.67A, hit power on Console > > goes to 0.84A, hit Power off on console back down to 0.67A. 1.3.2 is > > similar except there is a brief spike on the power when the .1.3.2 > > console starts, but does fall back to 0.67A. > > > > Bill (kd5tfd) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > > >
