[Elecraft] KPA500 keyed with no drive

2019-04-05 Thread Andy Durbin
An unexpected shut down of my station PC led to a cascading failure that caused my Arduino station logger to key my KPA500.I was alerted to the problem by the KPA500 fan running a level 1. Indicated temperature was 50 deg C. I estimate that my KPA500 was continuously keyed with no RF driv

Re: [Elecraft] KPA500 keyed with no drive

2019-04-06 Thread Andy Durbin
In one off-line reply I was asked why the temperature rose to 50 deg C. With a room temperature of about 25 deg C the temperature of my KPA500 PA module when not keyed runs about 34 deg C. Measured PA dissipation when keyed with no drive is 40.75 W.It seems reasonable that 40.75 W could ra