Both the production change and the field modification result in gold- to-gold contacts throughout the 12 V circuit to the PA.
Wayne N6KR On Feb 14, 2012, at 9:12 AM, Stewart wrote: > I had a look inside my K3 today. Although it is an early one, S/N 307 > it has a new RF board with gold pins.However, these mate with the > KPA103 > Interface Module which has sockets that are tinned. > > I thought that there was a danger that over a period of time the tin > would > migrate onto the gold surface and cause oxide issues. > > Shouldn't it be gold to gold, and tin to tin ? ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html