Apologies if there's a thread for it already, but searching the internet hasn't really produced any results. I'm an HF newbie (just passed the general last week and it got into the FCC database on Friday), so I haven't really had time to experiment with different HF equipment yet.
Does anyone have any ballpark figures for how much power a FT-450D will generally use running below 100w? I picked one up that'll be here this upcoming week and would like to use my current power supply (10A continuous/12A peak) with it until I have the money for a bigger supply in a week or two. My current supply runs a HTX-100 10 meter radio just fine at both 5 and 25 watts, would it be fair to assume the same numbers on SSB? I know the spec is 22 amps at 100w, but again, I won't be running anywhere near that until I get the bigger supply. Most of what I do is talk local on 10 which I can easily do at 5w, and if I could work some of the lower bands at 25w or so that would be a nice bonus. I'd be using SSB exclusively. Thanks in advance!
Does anyone have any ballpark figures for how much power a FT-450D will generally use running below 100w? I picked one up that'll be here this upcoming week and would like to use my current power supply (10A continuous/12A peak) with it until I have the money for a bigger supply in a week or two. My current supply runs a HTX-100 10 meter radio just fine at both 5 and 25 watts, would it be fair to assume the same numbers on SSB? I know the spec is 22 amps at 100w, but again, I won't be running anywhere near that until I get the bigger supply. Most of what I do is talk local on 10 which I can easily do at 5w, and if I could work some of the lower bands at 25w or so that would be a nice bonus. I'd be using SSB exclusively. Thanks in advance!