In my experience almost all tact switches are crap. Find the equivalent part from Alps and get them from the usual places (Mouser, Digikey). After changing to Alps my reliability problems disappeared. I’ve used maybe 100K.
73, Josh W6XU Sent from my iPad > On Nov 6, 2020, at 2:46 PM, hawley, charles j jr <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The switches are surface mount and quite sealed. The surface mount on them is > not a problem the way they are soldered in. But ultimately, it seems like > Elecraft needs to replace them as to brand, model, in their production if > they haven’t already done so. > When I called for replacing pod number 2, I was told that this was extremely > rare and even not likely for someone to have two of them go this way. But > with a little persistence they sent me my third one. I think they are getting > old in the tooth now, so we should see more “rare” failures ahead. As of > right now, replacing the pc board for $120 is probably the way to go, with > the hope that the switches are a more reliable sort. > I, so far, went the way of just switching my most used macros to relatively > unused switches. Good for another almost year I hope. ______________________________________________________________ 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]
