I found at Field Day I needed the front panel illuminated as well as my clipboard. I have rigged a small LED on a 6" goose neck attached to the power plug. Works well enough that I can turn off the KX3's internal backlight making the total power load unchanged.
John Hendricks K7JLT On Sep 9, 2013, at 14:28, Mel Farrer <[email protected]> wrote: > I have put together a simple white LED bar on the bottom of the KX3. No > holes, it clips over the bottom thumbs screws. Runs off of 9 to 16 VDC @ 25 > mA, regulated by a LM7808. I have a schematic and pictures for those > interested. BTW the bar is a plastic DIP IC stick with a AL sheetmetal plate > to make the attachment. Simple tools. > > Mel, K6KBE > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
