R2 is open and is blackened like it has been over dissipated . Now the $64,000
question is how can one over dissipate a 220 ohm resistor fed from 5 volts thru
10K ohms ???
Even if there was no resistor fed from 5 v it would be a tad under 1/8 watt -
which is probably on the edge for a 0508 SMD chip resistor . R98 on the RF
board feeding P35 is in fact 9980 ohms and the runner to P35 is Ok. The other
end of R98 shows 4.97 volts from U12 so the 5V regulator is OK . There are
1000 pfd caps to ground from the 15 pin ACC connector before the 220 ohm
resistor so unlikely RF could have done it plus I have a 2.4 inch #31 core with
14 T right at the connector before it runs to the N1MM FSK keying box with the
standard open collector NPN to FSK in.
So its beyond me - off to FRY's Electronics to see if they have 0508 220 ohm
strips hanging on a nail .
Welcome any ideas . Maybe same gremlin that blew a 1N4007 D35 reverse spike
diode on the 12 ACC jack with the P3 only thing ever on it , two weeks after I
fired up the K3
73 Hank K7HP
Thanks -- I pulled it out and there they are -- 73 Hank K7HP
The voltage on the FSD in line is "floating" at about 3.2 volts and even
finger leakage pulls it down so its from a very high sourfce impedance and does
niot key the FSk.
I have tracked from J23 ACC connector to P90/J90 on the KIO3 Dsub RS232 IO
board the PTT in , KEY out , AUX and all are the nominal 220 ohms shown on
the schematic . Pin 16 FSK in is about 6 megohms. This would indicate that R2
220 ohms is open or something along that line is open .
My question is where the heck is R2 ? Or maybe more to the point - Is R2
on the back side of the horizontal board marked "KIO3 Remote I/O Module "
with J23 (15 pin) and J24 (9 pin RS232) that then plugs into J90 on the KIO3
vertical Main board ?
I hate to pull all that apart and find its somewhere else ?? Of course it
could be a lousy solder joint somewhere in the run (incidentally the 5v is
solid at pin 20 J90 and at pin 3 of J35/P35 on the RF board.
Thanks - if I don't hear anything guess it will be tear it apart and see !
Hank K7HP
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