"Eric Fairbank" wrote in news:vvGdna8RzJfu857ZRVn-
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Where did you hear that myth???

Old school, Bruce. Still remembers what happened to the tube rigs when the
filament voltage dropped as well as the unregulated vibrator or square-wave
HVPS of old.

If you jumper out the leveling circuit that provides the flat power output
down to 10V on the M-802, she'll put out almost 220 watts until the heat
sink overheats and shuts her down....at 13V. Icom, and the others, have
left plenty of headroom for the power regulators to compensate for a good
bit of DC power loading.

Sure not like the old rigs with the light bulb RF indicators...(c;