Fred, Give the techs at Elecraft a call. They're REAL good at diagnosing problems, and suggesting fixes. If you don't feel comfortable doing the work, send it in. 73, Mike NF4L
> On Apr 8, 2016, at 6:44 PM, Fred Jensen <[email protected]> wrote: > > My K3, S/N 642, has been slowly developing "front panel dementia" [as am I as > I accumulate birthdays]. A number of the switches are becoming intermittent, > and often, the first push of one causes a totally unrelated action [e.g. > tapping BAND UP turns on NR]. It doesn't happen with all of them and it > seems like the ones I use the most are pretty stable. I find that a really > positive actuation, as in hard, often makes it work correctly. > > My K3 is getting somewhat long in the tooth as the S/N would indicate, but I > was under the impression that the front panel switches were rated at > multi-millions of operations, and I'm sure I haven't come remotely close to > exceeding that. My truck is 13 years old and is developing similar symptoms > [Tach says the engine is doing 6,000 RPM sitting in the driveway :-)] > > Curious: > > 1. Anybody else experience this? > > 2. If so, what did you do? > > 3. How do I tell if it's time to send it into the Big E? > > 73, > > Fred K6DGW > - Northern California Contest Club > - CU in the Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2016 > - www.cqp.org > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] 73, Mike NF4L ______________________________________________________________ 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]
