[Elecraft] K2 S/N 4787 Build In Progress

Hi Everyone, First my thanks to everyone who has responed to my previous email on the same subject. Just a quick progress report. I've proceeded thru part one alignment of the RF board. Functioned as designed!! Also have finished the voltage(?), freq counter and RF probes. The only

R: [Elecraft] K2 S/N 4787 Build In Progress

So I'm not the only one.. What a relief! 73 de Giulio IW3HVB -- Quote: On the front panel board while trying to add SSB components after the fact I managed to slightly burn the edge of a push button. Wish the instructions had mentioned to put the low SSB components in before the higher

Re: [Elecraft] K2 S/N 4787 Build In Progress

Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: I'm inventorying each board as it is begun. ... At this point capacitors for the RF board are a wild blur. I'm sure I have not correctly identified at least a third of them. Many numbers on the caps are simply not in the parts list. If anyone has a good way to ID

RE: [Elecraft] K2 S/N 4787 Build In Progress

Jim, I am only speaking from my experience and this may be a childish statement from your point of view, and I am not trying to be smart or anything like that, but be sure and look at both sides of the capacitors. Some of them have numbers on both sides. I got in a hurry when doing my

RE: [Elecraft] K2 S/N 4787 Build In Progress

I've been doing electronics for years and there's some pattern matching you have to do when sorting out parts. Especially caps and resistor packs. It's not completely automatic like resistors used to be. (I say used to be because I could swear the colors were clearer when I was younger. :) ) I'd

[Elecraft] K2 S/N 4787 Build In Progress

Hi to everyone, K2 s/n 4787 was received yesterday (3/2/5) at about 1:20pm via UPS. At about 15 hours into the experience I have the control board and front panel complete and just starting the RF board. Several comments. How did they squeeze all that into one box! On the control board I

RE: [Elecraft] K2 S/N 4787 Build In Progress

Jim, AB0UK, wrote: I'm inventorying each board as it is begun. ... At this point capacitors for the RF board are a wild blur. I'm sure I have not correctly identified at least a third of them. Many numbers on the caps are simply not in the parts list. If anyone has a good way to ID them I

Re: [Elecraft] K2 S/N 4787 Build In Progress

Jim Harris wrote: On the front panel board while trying to add SSB components after the fact I managed to slightly burn the edge of a push button. Wish the instructions had mentioned to put the low SSB components in before the higher and vulnerable parts were added. Having just been through

Re: [Elecraft] K2 S/N 4787 Build In Progress

Haw Haw!! And I thought I was then only one who did things like that! I once looked for a part for two days. It was sitting on my workbench, more or less in plain sight, the whole time. - Jim, KL7CC Ron D'Eau Claire wrote snip Today I lost entire whole circuit board assembly for my