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New Flex Meter Objects

Mick W8BE
Mick W8BE Member ✭✭✭
edited May 2025 in SmartSDR API

It looks like Flex added a PA Current and TNF signal Strength meter objects to 3.9. I turned on the meters for PA Current and from the value it would appear I am running 10 Amps even in receive.

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I suspect this meter does not work on a 6xxx radio. If it is supposed to then there is a bug as it shows 10 amps regardless of receive / transmit

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  • Eric-KE5DTO
    Eric-KE5DTO Administrator, FlexRadio Employee admin
    Answer ✓

    This does look like a bug. I took a note and we'll be looking into this. Thanks for reporting. This is being tracked as SMART-11281.

  • Eric-KE5DTO
    Eric-KE5DTO Administrator, FlexRadio Employee admin
    Answer ✓

    OK.  I finally have a definitive answer on this issue (SMART-11281, related to SMART-11780).  The PA Current meter that was added was for the FLEX-8000 series, but wasn't marked as such.  Due to this, it shows up for the FLEX-6000 series radios, but has invalid data.  As such, it will be removed from the FLEX-6000 series in a future release.  Our apologies for the confusion this caused.

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  • Mick W8BE
    Mick W8BE Member ✭✭✭

    thanks…

  • wb0z
    wb0z Member ✭✭

    Bringing this topic up again in a different context for an 8000 series radio. To compute total watts being used to power the radio, would the formula be:

    A) RAD/300/PACURRENT * RAD/344/+13.8

    or

    B) RAD/300/PACURRENT * RAD/0/+13.8A

    or

    C) RAD/300/PACURRENT * RAD/0/+13.8B

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