For what it's worth, just my personal observations: I drag my K2, K3 and just recently my K3S all over the place on my /p outings all the time with no troubles. Now, one thing I did do was invest in a good Pelican case for that purpose - yes, it was pricey at about $200 but still a fraction of the investment in the rigs. So when bouncing around on the floor of the pickup the rig is very well protected. I don't play soccer with them for sure, but they do get bumps and thumps here and there.
But as for the inductors themselves, they look tiny and fragile, but they're quite well supported by the leads and any vibration they may undergo looks to me like it'd be well within the plasticity of the copper wire. On my K2, I remember this when building my first one. I made sure to get the toroids as well seated onto the board as possible and they're quite secure once soldered in. On the K2 at least, the sensitive ones have precautions built-in, there's one toroid (I think it's in the synthesizer) that's bolted down flat to the board. And the BFO toroid is secured by the resistor across its leads and held firmly in place that way. The rest are in the low pass and bandpass filters, so they're not as critical. Don, please correct me if any of this is wrong (I'll get a review soon as I'm now on the RF board build of K2 number 2 hi hi). In other words, it's not a problem in my experience. Things like wiring harnesses and big skeletal switch assemblies and so forth are what give problems when schlepping a rig and none of the K's use those types of construction. They're designed for portability in that way. Just my .02, LS W5QD -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-KX-1-Inductors-tp7615570p7615582.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
