I had the same symptom on my year old newly completed K3 kit a few months ago (S/N 3172). With Gary's guidance found the trouble to be one of the surface mount chokes (RFC3 or RFC4) between the paddles jack (J12) and the board needed resoldering. Check for continuity with your ohmmeter and you will probably find one of them not connected. Carefully resolder each end while applying downward pressure, one end at a time, and it should work.
Gene K6TTM -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Don Wilhelm Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 5:58 PM To: James Sarte Cc: Elecraft Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3: Right paddle key not working? James, Based on your other posts to the reflector where you checked continuity inside the K3, I would suggest a new download of the firmware, save your configuration, then do an EE INIT. Install the firmware via K3 Utility, restore your configuration and see if anything changes. If that fails to correct it, an email to [email protected] is in order. Why do these things always happen on the weekend?? 73, Don W3FPR On 11/13/2010 8:09 PM, James Sarte wrote: > Hi Don, > I just did that. I can short tip to ground and get dits, but shorting > ring to ground produces nothing. > Looks like there's something wrong with the K3. What should I look > for at this point? > Tnx, > James K2QI > > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Don Wilhelm <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > James, > > Remove the key from the equation. Insert a stereo plug with the > ring soldered to the sleeve. Does the K3 make dashes? If so, > then you can blame your paddles and their plug. If not, then > there is something wrong with your K3. > > 73, > Don W3FPR > > > On 11/13/2010 6:53 PM, James Sarte wrote: > > What am I doing wrong? I hooked up an old iambic paddle to the > K3 a few > moments ago. Left paddle works fine; gives me a string of > dots. Right > paddle doesn't do anything. I checked continuity on tip, > ring, and ground > and everything tests fine. Is there something I'm not doing > right with the > K3?? > > > > > -- > 73 de James K2QI > President UNARC/4U1UN > ______________________________________________________________ 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
