Hi,
The amp has worked well with 500 watts out, and in standby works fine with 100
watts and the power shown on the led meter is correct. When in operate, it
shows high swr with only 1 or 2 watts of drive. So something in the t/r switch
has failed.
I guess.
Thanks for the reply.
Chuck, KE9UW
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On Mar 14, 2012, at 1:11 PM, "mkoeh...@comcast.net"
wrote:
> Chuck - I'm a brand new KPA500 owner ...so don't have a lot of history.
> Probably not this simple, but I would suggest looking closely at the
> clearance between the center pin of the high power output connector and that
> metal shield. I thought the design was exceptional but was disappointed at
> how there was almost no clearance here. (If I had a Greenlee punch, I would
> have taken a nibble out to provide more clearance!) It's possible when you
> kick into high power, it could arc/short or have a bad VSWR. Also, have all
> the cables on the output side been run 500W+ before?? 73- Mark WA3OFR
> Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ke9uw
> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:37:06
> To:
> Subject: [Elecraft] KPA has FAILED...high SWR reported by K3 when amp in
>"Operate"
>
> My KPA500 causes a high SWR showing at the K3 when the amp is in transmit
> operate. All else seems to work ok...reloaded firmware...checked
> faults...something about "power lost without controlled shutdown".
>
> Any ideas? Pin diode?
>
> -
> Chuck, KE9UW
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