I was using a small phone plug but it still failed after about a year. I
use headphones most of the time so never took out the plug for the entire
time. When I was going to use the speaker I found the jack had failed.
There are so many headphones around the house with 1/8 plugs that I would
never need to use an adapter. I think it was a bad batch of jacks.
Kevin. KD5ONS
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:49:40 -0700, Ron D'Eau Claire
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bill, K3UJ wrote:
Hmmm. The headphone jack in K2 4152 is intermittent also. I'm holding my
breath every time I unplug. Seems to be a problematic component, at
least
some
of them are. Maybe there was a bad batch?
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Yes, that seems to have been a problematic component.
I wonder how many people who have had trouble used a large plug or plug
adapter on the phones line there?
I ask because my five-year-old K2's phone jack is FB after countless
plug-ins and un-plugs, but I may be a lot more gentler on it than most.
Instead of a large plug, I have a very small, lightweight right-angle
plug
with a small, flexible wire pig-tail that goes to a large jack for the
phones connector. The pressure on the K2 jack is miniscule at best. The
large connector lies on the desk. There's only a gram or two of weight on
the connector and, since it's a right-angle connector, virtually no
leverage
to amplify pressure caused by moving the phones cord around.
I used that simply because my favorite headphones are equipped with a
1/4-inch connector, and it didn't seem a good idea to use an in-line
adapter
that would place considerable stress on the tip of the plug inside the
tiny
jack on the K2.
Maybe I'm just lucky. Maybe not.
Ron AC7AC
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