How about Elecraft's commissioning one of the PS manufacturers to design a package to fit into a P3 enclosure. There's lots of space in there for a PS, not to mention a good speaker. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Ragle" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 2:11 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] New product suggestion
> Threads like this one about power supplies must make both the > transceiver manufacturers and power supply manufacturers gnash their > teeth and give up in despair! The market already contains a number of > very small, interference-free supplies that fit this idea: Pyramid, for > example makes a 30 A. 13.8 V. switcher that measures 8"X8.5"X2.5" that > sells for a reasonable price, and Tandy also sells one, slightly > smaller, that delivers 20 A. I have three of these, quite a bit smaller > than a K2, that work beautifully. They sit about 4" from my K3 and my > ICOM 910H, and produce no discernible interference whatever. > > There may be a need for a much higher capacity switcher -- I have not > been able to find one that would replace my 2-ton-Tessie Astron 70 -- > but the low end is very well covered. It seems quite counter-productive > to shunt high-quality transceiver engineers into the power supply > business...the K3 is nearly unique, ditto for the KPA-500, but it looks > to me that the power supply issue is pretty well covered. > > Maybe Elecraft should just sell a "meatball" decal emblem for use on > third-party power supplies? > > John Ragle -- W1ZI > > ===== > > On 4/8/2011 4:51 PM, Eric Champine wrote: >> Hi all. >> I like the PS idea for both the K2 and K3. > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
