Personally, I would read through the kit assembly instruction for the K3S and see if the module tests were helpful.
http://www.elecraft.com/manual/E740259%20K3s%20Assembly%20Manual.pdf When you need more than that, I’ve seen awesome support on this list and from Elecraft support. They will often suggest a specific component to test and replace. wunder K6WRU Walter Underwood CM87wj http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On May 26, 2018, at 11:07 AM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well stated. It's ridiculous to believe that with all of the components in > a transceiver, one will not fail or that a design could not improvement once > hundreds+ of the product are being used daily by various customers. > > John KK9A > > > Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote: > If you are looking for a radio which won't fail, I suggest one keep your > money in the bank. All new radios, all brands, have a known failure rate, > out if the box, at one year, and two years. That is the reason companies > offer a warranty. They expect some number but of units to fail during the > warranty period. Nothing unusual about this fact. > > As to personally repairing one of the modern radios, unless one has > capability to handle remove and replace surface mount components, as well as > rather extensive test equipment and advanced knowledge of electronics, one > is relying on board or modular exchange. This does involve the factory an > leaves one with a nonworking product for a period of time. > > For a period of years I repaired many ham radio products for others. In > probably a majority of cases I had to not only find and repair the original > fault, but.....I had to correct the attempted repairs of others. > > Like many other products, we are moving more and more to a toss and replace > commodity. > > Bob, K4TAX > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On May 26, 2018, at 11:12 AM, Drew AF2Z <pubx1 at af2z.net> wrote: >> >> I've done a couple of repairs on my old K3: blown pin diodes on the > transverter board, and the corroded 12 vdc connector pins on the KPA3 amp. > Have also done several component-level mod kits supplied by Elecraft. >> >> I think Elecraft will supply all K3 parts that are still in production > and, if I'm not mistaken, they stockpile end-of-life components for future > repairs. But you can't expect parts to be available forever. >> >> FWIW, I recently managed to find a ceramic filter for my Argonaut V that > is out of production. I ordered directly from TenTec. Amazingly they still > had a few in stock. >> >> 73, >> Drew >> AF2Z > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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]
