One more reason to NOT use power-poles. Did I mention that I don't like them? They are hard to use, over-rated, unreliable and not re-useable.
Charlie k3ICH -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of lmarion Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2016 11:49 AM To: [email protected]; Ken Arck <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Well Hell.... I just bricked my K3s What a relief!! I love my K3S, and hope every ham has the pleasure of a high performance rig. Another Elecraft superior moment, it did not destroy itself and waited for the oops moment to pass. Another teaching moment: Check power supply is No 1 on every trouble shoot chart. Congratulations Ken and 73 Leroy AB7CE -----Original Message----- From: Ken Arck Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2016 9:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Well Hell.... I just bricked my K3s Thanks to all who replied to my plea for help! I did find the problem this morning and man, it was not what I expected. The problem turned out to be that power was not getting to the radio. Well,,, actually it WAS getting to the radio - to the Power Poles - but no further. I decided to poke around a bit and found that the solder connection on the positive pole - it appeared to be cracked, perhaps from the repeated removed of the power connector but it seems that the added current draw of the 100 watt PA did the connection in one way or another. I reflowed the connection and the radio is once again happy. What threw me (and why no power wasn't my first thought to check) was that THUMP when the power button was tapped. I guess there was a enough charge in some capacitor to do that. Ah well, live and learn.... Again, thanks to all Ken ______________________________________________________________ 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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]
