I was talking to Paul at TT service recently about a problem with my
Pegasus. He asked about my power supply. I'm using my Astron RS20. He said
that that really doesn't have enough power for the Pegasus. My impression
is that perhaps the Pegasus is a little less efficient than other 100w rigs
so it draw a little more current. I'm going to switch to my RS35 supply for
the Pegasus, but I will install a 20A magnetic breaker for overcurrent
protection, since the Pegasus doesn't really have any.
73,
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McClafferty" <ve1adh@accesswave.ca>
To: "Tentec, Users" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 5:07 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Power supply overcurent tripping
> I am using the 961power supply that came with my Omni V to power my
Pegasus.
> Recently it started tripping on when I was on my 80 meter dipole. I solved
> that by replacing the antenna, it was old anyway. What puzzled me was that
> it was tripping the supply at only about 2.5:1 SWR. I checked the supply
> trip point and it was about 20 amps. I realized though that I was using
the
> aux. jacks to power a 2 meter rig,TNC,antenna switch and a small fan. This
> adds a couple of amps to the PS load, so the Pegasus finals were probably
> only drawing about 16-18 amps when the PS tripped.
> Over the years I have heard many complaints of Tentec supplies tripping
when
> they shouldn't. I wonder how many of these complaints were caused by extra
> load on the supply?
>
> 73, Dave
>
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