KPA1500 power supply gone south
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KPA1500 power supply gone south
 
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For the record, the group that was renting my place on J6 for the contest a
week and a half ago hard faulted my KPA1500 power supply just 4 hours before the contest started. While the loss of the amp was concerning to me, they actually placed better in the low power category. I've now got to haul it back to the states to get it fixed and return before the next group comes in during January. Dr. William J. Schmidt - K9HZ J68HZ 8P6HK ZF2HZ PJ4/K9HZ VP5/K9HZ PJ2/K9HZ Owner - Operator Big Signal Ranch - K9ZC Staunton, Illinois Owner - Operator Villa Grand Piton - J68HZ Soufriere, St. Lucia W.I. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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"For the record, the group that was renting my place on J6 for the contest a week and a half ago hard faulted my KPA1500 power supply just 4 hours before the contest started."
Ah, but did they damage it doing something really stupid or did the KPA1500 system fail to protect itself from a reasonably expected operator error? Absent that information what can we learn from this event other than don't let other people use your stuff? Andy, k3wyc ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
Re: KPA1500 power supply gone south
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Well Andy, the power supply just quit in the middle of normal operation. I was on site helping the visiting team prep for the contest at the time to witness the failure. I don't think that qualifies as something stupid, in fact im not aware there is a way you could make my station misbehave to failure (all automated), so im gonna go with “unknown hardware failure under warranty.” Tech support was available that Friday afternoon and their response was “it happens”. Good enough for me. Going back.
Dr. William J. Schmidt - K9HZ J68HZ 8P6HK ZF2HZ PJ4/K9HZ VP5/K9HZ PJ2/K9HZ Owner - Operator Big Signal Ranch – K9ZC Staunton, Illinois Owner – Operator Villa Grand Piton - J68HZ Soufriere, St. Lucia W.I. email: [hidden email] > On Nov 12, 2019, at 8:42 PM, Andy Durbin <[hidden email]> wrote: > > "For the record, the group that was renting my place on J6 for the contest a week and a half ago hard faulted my KPA1500 power supply just 4 hours before the contest started." > > Ah, but did they damage it doing something really stupid or did the KPA1500 system fail to protect itself from a reasonably expected operator error? Absent that information what can we learn from this event other than don't let other people use your stuff? > > Andy, k3wyc > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Mine just died back in March. There's an HV problem that several people
have had in some of the earlier amps, and I was asking if that's what it was in direct email. Elecraft can fix it easily, but customer service was oddly rude to me (my email was stuck in their spam filter and they chastised me on the phone for not answering Eric before they realized that I did reply) and also made me swap cables and take the covers off and measure the HV line instead of just sending it in. On Wed, 13 Nov 2019, Andy Durbin wrote: > "For the record, the group that was renting my place on J6 for the contest a week and a half ago hard faulted my KPA1500 power supply just 4 hours before the contest started." > > Ah, but did they damage it doing something really stupid or did the KPA1500 system fail to protect itself from a reasonably expected operator error? Absent that information what can we learn from this event other than don't let other people use your stuff? > > Andy, k3wyc > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] > -- Hisashi T Fujinaka - [hidden email] BSEE + BSChem + BAEnglish + MSCS + $2.50 = coffee ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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