Yes that was an Alkaline battery. That makes me feel better about installing the new finals once they arrive. In the mean time I have a KAT100 and KPA100 to build.
Jeremy Don Wilhelm-4 wrote > Jeremy, > > That voltage is close to what I would expect from a new Lithium battery. > If you are measuring an Alkaline battery, then your voltmeter is a bit > on the high side. > > So if Alkaline battery, then your 0.65 measurement is likely OK, but if > that battery is a Lithium type, the bias is a bit high and you may have > to experiment with slightly different values at R60 to bring the bias > voltage down a bit. > > 73, > Don W3FPR > > On 2/18/2014 6:58 PM, JeremyJones wrote: >> A new AA battery right from the package is giving me 1.615V on the fluke >> meter. This is a newer K2 (#7405). I had some issues when building it >> which caused me to go through a couple of sets of PA finals before I had >> to >> send it to you to get sorted out. It was working great until now, so >> hopefully there isn't something residual that is creeping up now. The >> resistor values are all correct according to the manual. >> R59 4.7k >> R60 100 >> R61 120 >> R62 2.7k >> R63 220 >> >> I am performing the voltage measurement on the Base pad of where Q8 would >> go, and pressing and holding the "Tune" button on the front of the radio. >> >> > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K2-Won-t-power-on-tp7584083p7584419.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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
