At least give us a long off! Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 6, 2010, at 13:27, Dan Atchison <[email protected]> wrote: > Unintentionally powering-off the K3 has happened to me many times > and I am just lucky, I guess, that I've seen no problems with a > quick response power-on. > > This almost begs that powering-off the K3 be changed to a long hold > as opposed to instantaneous. Indeed, it could be a long hold for > both power-on and power-off. Just my opinion. > > Dan -- N3ND > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill VanAlstyne W5WVO <[email protected]> > To: [Elecraft] <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, Oct 6, 2010 2:19 pm > Subject: [Elecraft] [K3] Speaker output amp kaput > > > I recently fried (I believe) the speaker amplifier in my K3, > apparently by > just turning off the radio and turning it back on too quickly. > Perhaps the > fact that the AGC was disabled at the time might have had something > to do > with this, though that is just a guess. I accidentally turned off > the K3 by > pushing the POWER button by mistake, and, cursing my klutziness, > immediately > pushed the button again to turn it back on, as I was in the middle > of a QSO. > The radio came back on -- but sans speaker. It has been dead ever > since. > Configuration settings have been double-checked. It's not a > catastrophe for > me, because I normally use headphones anyway, but I'd like to get it > fixed. > > Since I'm not reading every post on the list these days, I have > probably > missed something about this, because I dimly recall seeing some > subject > headings about the speaker amplifier. I didn't read these. Is this a > user-replaceable part? If so, what is involved? > > And if this part is blowing up regularly, why is it so fragile? Is > there > something that can be done to better protect it? > > My K3 was recently (couple months ago) updated at the factory with all > applicable mods. > > Bill W5WVO > New Mexico > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
