Greetings,
I finally got the 220 volt outlet installed in my shack yesterday and was
able to put the Centurion on-the-air. Most impressive--quiet (relatively)
and smooth.
One issue. The wattmeter is way off. When in standby, my Omni 6 meter
shows 100 watts out, my external wattmeter shows 100 watts out, the
Centurion's meters (both the bar graph and regular watt meter show 200
watts. I figured the low end might be off so I loaded it up and compared my
external with the internals. 1250 (1500 watt led lights and then drops back
to 1 red) on the Centurion shows 900-1000 on my external. Again both meters
are off.
While I don't care about the wattmeters, it makes me wonder if the others
(grid and plate current) are as badly calibrated.
While playing on 20 meters (into a dummy load), I was able to get 1500 out
with about 240 ma of grid current and 100 watts drive.
Thoughts?
73 de Tom, K4NR
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