Re: [Elecraft] Remote on/off of the K3

2016-12-15 Thread Robin Moseley
That zip file looks familiar.. Rick ;) de G1MHU Robin -Original Message- From: Rick WA6NHC Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 5:55 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Remote on/off of the K3 Here is the answer that I sent him: My entire K line is managed

Re: [Elecraft] Remote on/off of the K3

2016-12-15 Thread Nr4c
PWR ON is on the Acc2 port. Needs someway to ground the pin to turn ON the K3. Internet to relay, telephone to relay. Sent from my iPhone ...nr4c. bill > On Dec 15, 2016, at 12:38 PM, Gary Smith wrote: > > On one of the lists I'm on, one of the > guys asked the following

Re: [Elecraft] Remote on/off of the K3

2016-12-15 Thread Don Wilhelm
Gary, The way to remotely turn the K3 ON is to pull the ACC connector pin 8 to ground (ACC pin 5 or 12). See Remote Power On in the manual. There is a command to turn the K3 OFF in the K3 Programmer's Reference, but when powered off, the serial port is not powered, so it could not respond

Re: [Elecraft] Remote on/off of the K3

2016-12-15 Thread Rick WA6NHC
Here is the answer that I sent him: My entire K line is managed by a computer. I use a USB board with a pair of relays (only need one) and some specific software (shortcut on the desktop) to tickle the ACC line to turn the K3 on when I am remote operating.

[Elecraft] Remote on/off of the K3

2016-12-15 Thread Gary Smith
On one of the lists I'm on, one of the guys asked the following question & I have no answer for him. "Dear friends, I am using K3 for remote operation. Recently we experience the increase  of power failures here in Ukraine. Despite of having 7AH battery as a PS buffer,