[TenTec] Titan III - no grid drive

[David W LeJeune]

Hi, Don
	I've had mine for 3 yrs now.  Worked find until very recently.  A
few weeks ago it got a bit intermittent when tuning up on 20 and above, but
usually was able to tune up fine.  Now, I get no output at all on 20 and
above, and no increase in plate current - just sits there with idling plate
current no matter how much drive I give it (I'm using an Orion 2 to drive
it).  Spoke to Tentec this morning, and they said it could be a lot of
things - just send it it in!).
	BTW - I always tune up into a flat 50 ohm load.  The yagi is a
stepir and I set it up with the Orion before I attempt to tune up the Titan
III. After arc'ing a load capacitor in the Titan, I found that it's not good
to load into anything other that a fairly flat 50 ohm load with SWR less
that 1.5 to 1.

	Thanks

Dave WN5V


-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of W3WW
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 9:18 AM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Titan III - no grid drive

Dave,

Do you have power output on 20 even though low or no grid current? I have 
had a similar situation with my Titan III. It seems to have little or no 
Grid current anywhere, but will put out full legal limit on all bands. 
Bought mine new and it has very few hours. I just learned to live with it. I

have also noticed when running low power (300-700W) it is hard to eliminate 
any negative Grid current.

73,
Don  W3WW 

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