The meter banging on the peg is normal and I wish they would change the
software driven ballistics to fix that...maybe slow down the rise time and
release time.
As for the power, don't put too much reliance on external meters. Dummy
loads don't always exhibit a true 50 +j0 impedance and unless you have had
the external meters recently calibrated with a laboratory calorimeter, their
accuracy is suspect and doubtful better than +-10%. Even a Bird 43 is only
speced at +-5%, only at full-scale and only then if the slug and meter were
calibrated together at the factory.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I assume that all Orions are calibrated on the same
dummy load and with the same wattmeter, and I think I can only recall of one
complaint on this list about the output being less than 100 watts.
Ron N6AHA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vincent Sgroi" <k1rm@intergate.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 3:30 AM
Subject: [TenTec] Power adjustment
I have owned my Orion 2 for several months and really enjoy it. I have
a minor complaint. The power output according to the digital meter is
100 and the same on the analog dial, however, into a dummy load it reads
90 watts on two different watt meters(Drake and Daiwa). Can someone
tell me it there is an adjustment which I can make or is it software
driven. The other minor complaint is that the analog meter smashes up
against the pin running the output to full power and doesn't track the
output power of the digital watt meter. I think a rather poor design.
Thanks,
Vin
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