On 5/31/2014 4:03 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
what did you do the break the APP housing, they are pretty sturdy things.
Once I looked more carefully at it, it turns out the wound was self-inflicted. My operating bench has no clearance space behind it and a shelf only six inches or so above it, so it's difficult to get to the back of gear, let alone see what you're doing when you're back there. The failure occurred when I tried plugging in the DC power connector and missed by one position, so that the red 12V hot lead plugged into the black jack, partially melting it.
Thanks for all the detailed suggestions. The solution was to remove the top panel, then the side panel. That gave me access to the jack, but when I removed it, the #14 wire soldered to the PCB came with it. To solder a new wire to the board, I needed access to the bottom side of the board -- my Hakko from the top side wasn't cutting it. So I removed most of the screws holding that bottom corner spacer, swiveled it out of the way of the iron, loosened several screws holding the bottom cover and propped it open with pliers so I could see that under-side solder pad. That let me make a good joint.
Everything is all better now. Thanks for the advice. 73, Jim K9YC ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
