Re: [Elecraft] Fwd: KPA1500 problem

2018-12-30 Thread Mark Goldberg
It's been said before. Check your cables and connectors for arcing. It
won't happen with lower power but as the voltage goes up with higher power
it may arc across a bad cable or connector. Possibly even in a tuner.

Can you test with different cables or a dummy load?

73,

Mark


On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 5:35 PM Steve  wrote:

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> > GE, folks
> > My KPA1500 (s/n 121) has developed a problem:
> > When applying power (15-20W) from the K3 to the amp, it immediately
> faults to:low gain fault ratio 3 (sometimes ratio 2 to ratio 6). The SWR
> indicator shows high SWR as the amp faults. 100w only from exciter will
> cause ATU to tune to 1:1 but when amp is switched on, it immediately faults
> as above. Looked through archives and manual. No mention of this particular
> fault. Any ideas would be appreciated.
> > 73 and HNY
> > Steve AA4V
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> > Sent from my I-Phone
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[Elecraft] Fwd: KPA1500 problem

2018-12-30 Thread Steve



Sent from my I-Phone

Begin forwarded message:

> GE, folks 
> My KPA1500 (s/n 121) has developed a problem: 
> When applying power (15-20W) from the K3 to the amp, it immediately faults 
> to:low gain fault ratio 3 (sometimes ratio 2 to ratio 6). The SWR indicator 
> shows high SWR as the amp faults. 100w only from exciter will cause ATU to 
> tune to 1:1 but when amp is switched on, it immediately faults as above. 
> Looked through archives and manual. No mention of this particular fault. Any 
> ideas would be appreciated. 
> 73 and HNY 
> Steve AA4V 
> 
> 
> Sent from my I-Phone

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