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Doing a drive calibration, I noticed that the 8000 is capable >300w cc @ 100% drive. Radio draws >45 amps at that level.
Wondering is that typical of these units. The pwr window displays 318w max, and is confirmed by my Bird wm.
Unit runs solid at that level and shows only about 10 deg c rise after 1min key down.

Never tried running mine that hard, and I don't think I'm going to!

I calibrate for an accurate 40W since 40+/-10W is typically what I use to drive my amp.

Edited to add: that 40W calibration is done with the RF drive slider control set to "40". So I do have access to a reasonably full range of output power levels, but the drive control is highly non-linear so it is not very accurate at either the high or low end of the range.

Greg, saw the same with mine out of the box and freaked out. Calibrated mine for proper output per band to drive my amp to near full output. For me that's 35 watts MAX.

This is a bit different issue but I'm noticing my 8000DLE output power fluctuating about 4w higher from time to time while in use. After tuning up my amp with 26w drive and about 1300-1350w amp output I later noticed the amp output of 1450w. I switched the amp to standby and observed 31w output from the 8000DLE. A short time later it was back to 26-27w. I put a meter on the Astron power supply and it is rock-steady at 13.78v for an extended time check. I've never noticed this before so is this normal? Has anyone else observed this? What might be the cause in the rig since I have eliminated the power supply possibility?
Thx
Carl
NX5T

Funny, two separate questions about the same thing at the same time (this one and one about the 7000).

See this topic from back in 2017: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2652&p=4413

Note that the power difference you are seeing is less than 1dB variation, which is a very small amount.