Phil, I noticed in the instructions it has you cut 3mm off of the encoder pins. Is there a clearance issue I need to watch out for if I use a connector on the encoder? Do you happen to have a photo?
73, Leigh. On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 01:16, Phil wrote: > After a long delay (who says that retirement gives you the time to do > all those things you want to do!) I have started to build K2 #4019. > I'm at the point where I am about to wire the encoder to the front panel > PCB. The manual talks about wrapping 4 wires around encoder lead-outs > and there had been some (much) earlier posts about this - I tried > something else. > > I have some old PCs in the garage - I salvaged some of the cables > between the computer front panel and motherboard including a 4 pin > flying socket which fits the encoder perfectly. All I had to do was cut > the lead to length, solder to the front panel PCB and I have a neat > connector to the encoder. This will allow removal of the front panel > without removal of the large tuning knob and encoder first. > > Phil G8JQH _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
