Oh, no no no no,  the carrier on mine is set around 15 or so, far less than 
the half way it came shipped at and I see 100 watts on CW and several other 
users who brought my attention to that are set the same way. You should have 
it nowhere near full carrier.
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From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2014 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: ts2000 info requested


> Junior:
> if you are testing the ts-2000 on CW with full carrier and power set to 
> 100W
> it should pull about 20 amps so they say...technically 100W at 13.8V 
> should
> be around 7.4 amps, but factor inefficiency and other components in the
> radio requiring current, and you can more than double that figure.
> How are you coming up with your 11amps? and what mode are you testing?
> Don't forget, you do have a cw carrier level adjustment on the radio, and 
> if
> that is not turned up all the way, you won't see the full 100w out on cw.
> Do you have a tw1 to check your RF output?
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
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> From: "Junior Lolley" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2014 10:28 AM
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: ts2000 info requested
>
>> When the ts2000 is keyed down how many amps does it pull?
>> I just checked mine and it is only pulling 11 amps.
>> Thanks for the info.
>>
>>
>> Junior Lolley kg4itd
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