I built my KPA500 a couple of weeks ago. I also had the long pins but
didn't find anything about trimming them when I searched. I just went
ahead and pushed the connector down onto the pins as far as it would go
and left it, so I have some exposed pin between the bottom of the
connector and the board.
I'm wondering if I should take it apart and trim them? Curious if
there's any potential issue with leaving it as-is. It works just fine,
at least right now...
Tighe
NK4I
On 3/12/13 8:53 AM, AG0N-3055 wrote:
Had to forward this again due to the stupid reply to that assigned on
this list. :o(
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 06:50:54 -0600, Gary McDuffie <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:12:45 -0700 (PDT), k2np wrote:
I had the exact same issue. It looks like pins in the manual are probably
shorter than they are in the latest kits. I put it on 2/3rds of the way and
it seemed to 'latch' in place. I finished assembling the kit and the fan was
working so I figured that was good enough.
Same on my kit I built recently. I corresponded with Elecraft and sent
a picture of the length and how far the plug was lacking of being fully
inserted and was told to cut off the pins. Just make sure you have a
good penetration of the female socket on the wire when you insert it.
Cut off excess and be done with it. I have pix if you want to see how
long mine was. Look back in the archives and I think you'll find my
posting that tells how much too long it was. The pins are very long
coming out of the board.
Gary
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