Eric, Thank you for your response. I did send a message to Wayne for his review, so I don't want to cause
double efforts on this..I appreciate the review. Since I do live in a active lightning area, I have a well grounded station and polyphaser surge protection. Coax is grounded when not in use.. possible but I don't think it was lightning related. In 15 years at this QTH I have never had a lightning issue with my station or anything in the house. Thanks Again, Jack From: Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft [via Elecraft] [mailto:ml-node+s365791n761027...@n2.nabble.com] Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 10:46 AM To: W4GRJ Subject: Re: KPA500 troubles Hi Jack, I apologize for any consternation this has caused you. Since multiple components burned through the LPF PC board, that is major damage and would require replacement of the whole LPF board, which is a major cost component of the amp. (Taking out this board and replacing it requires disassembly and reassembly of a major portion off the amp.) The repair cost also includes the tech time to diagnose, disassemble, repair, reassemble, retest and do full production TX burn-in of the amp on all bands. Component failure like this can occur in any manufacturer's radio or amplifier for many reasons, such as power line surges, nearby lightning strikes, operating with excessive SWR, transmitting into a wrong antenna etc. You do not need to be operating on a particular band, or even have the amp or radio on to incur lightning damage. This can also cause partial damage to components that then shows up as a failure later after additional operation. As a side note, every year during lightning season we see a significant increase in all sorts of 'interesting' repairs sent in to us on all of our products. Many times the user is not even aware that a strike occurred somewhere nearby while they still had their antennas connected. I'll review your repair report with our techs to make sure we didn't over charge for anything. I'll also check to see if they mis-identified which band the destroyed LPF components were from. 73, Eric elecraft.com _..._ > -----Original Message----- > From: Elecraft > [mailto:[hidden email]] On > Behalf Of w4grj > Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 7:14 AM > To: [hidden email] > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KPA500 troubles > > I need to correct the information on the repair > cost > > It was $615 with shipping not $650 as I previously > reported. > > Jack W4GRJ > >> On Wed,11/11/2015 12:10 PM, W4GRJ wrote: >> Got the KPA500 back from Elecraft. >> Problem found: L22 and other components in the > 60M low pass filter >> circuit burnt through the LPF PCB. > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] _____ If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/KPA500-troubles-tp7609284p7610277.html To unsubscribe from KPA500 troubles, click here <http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubsc ribe_by_code&node=7609284&code=dzRncmpAc2F0dGVyZmllbGQub3JnfDc2MDkyODR8LTE0O TAyMDE2Mjc=> . <http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_v iewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.Basi cNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template .NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_ emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml> NAML -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/KPA500-troubles-tp7609284p7610279.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
