Hi Frank: Your amp certainly looks like a perfect candidate to install an
electronic vox biasing board to drop that needless high idling current to
almost zero Ameritron has those boards available at a very reasonable price.
Fern
>I operate SSB with my NCL-2000 only to chase 'new ones'.
> While doing this on 17m I noticed that the top lid above the tubes was
> awfully hot.
> The high temperature persisted in SSB mode even if I wasn't transmitting.
> SSB uses approx 2800v and idle current is 200 ma.
> I put a digital thermometer on the lid above the tubes and recorded some
>
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