Stephen, when I wrote "my mistake" I meant it was my mistake, not Jim's. I was responding to Jim whose message I appended to my reply.
FYI, my test setup: 1) K3 disconnected from *everything* including the station ground. 2) Plugged in the two wires from my power supply with the DMM inserted in series with the positive lead. 3) DMM reads 0 mA. Turn on the power supply. Did not turn K3 on. DMM reads 38 mA. 4) Disconnected lead to KPA3 circuit breaker in K3. Current dropped to about 1 mA (fixed range on the DMM and I didn't bother to change that). Wayne did not specify what he meant by a "few mA" being normal when the K3 is off, but in my case it's 38 mA with KPA3 installed and almost nothing with it disconnected. 73, Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- Ron, I'm not sure if your posting was directed at me or not, but I didn't mentally move the decimal point :-) It was a fundamental limitation of the (good, I thought) DMM I was using. It just goes to show that you can't always believe what your measuring instrument is telling you, as I tell my students frequently! 73, Stephen G4SJP ______________________________________________________________ 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
