Darnit. I took half the K3 apart. Nevermind, guess I cant see the solder pins from the top as they're actually covered by the jack housings.
OK... on to step two. James K2QI On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 9:31 PM, James Sarte <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Gene, > > After following Don's advice to do an EE Init and reload, I still had the > same problem. I then removed the bottom plate and checked RFC3 and RFC4. > Continuity check shows that RFC3 is ok, but RFC4 has no continuity. > > How did Gary suggest you fix RFC4? Did you resolder the choke? If so, how > did you do it - from the bottom of the board where the choke is mounted, or > did you have to solder from the other side? > > If it's from the other side, wow.. I'm not looking forward to tearing the > K3 apart. That's a lot of work. > > Pse advise. > > Mni tnx es vy 73 de James > K2QI > > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Gene Langendorff <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> > ______________________________________________________________ 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
