Well at least it's not "Finding True North" again on TowerTalk. :>) You have not suffered endless threads until you have to filter out the words "true north" in any email.
73, Guy K2AV On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Milverton M. Swire via Elecraft <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> wrote: >>>> One more reason to NOT use power-poles <<< > WELL! This post has now morphed into another Rendition of " Power Poles " > > (((73))) Milverton / W9MMS > > > From: "Charlie T, K3ICH" <pin...@erols.com> > To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net > Sent: Sunday, July 3, 2016 12:23 PM > Subject: [Elecraft] FW: Well Hell.... I just bricked my K3s > > > 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:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of > lmarion > Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2016 11:49 AM > To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net; Ken Arck <k...@arcomcontrollers.com> > 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: elecraft@mailman.qth.net > 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: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 pin...@erols.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 tnny...@yahoo.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 k2av....@gmail.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
