Miswiring the external speaker jack should not keep the speaker from working, unless you reverse the copper (hot) and silver (ground) wires. The new speaker jack reversed the position of the hot connections so if it was wired according to the original illustration in the manual, there'd be no audio output from the jack if an external speaker was plugged in. That's because with the hot leads reversed, the tip of the external plug ends up connected to the speaker in the K2 instead of the hot lead from the RF board. But, with nothing in the jack the speaker would get normal audio.
Don's suggestion about possibly plugging it into the wrong place sounds likely. The other thing is to make sure you inserted the leads into the plug correctly. That silver/copper polarity assumes you inserted the leads into the plug that goes to the RF board in the correct positions as shown in Figure 7-3 (page 79 in the manual). Ron AC7AC > -----Original Message----- > > Just got K2 5848 complete. Everything looks good except the speakers > (int or > ext) do not work. Headphones work great. I double-checked the wiring, > and I have not reversed the speaker wires. > > When I removed the speaker connector, I noticed that there is only > about 0.12 volts at P5 (audio) connector on the control board, whether > I have the headphone > plugged-in or not, and regardless of volume setting. Makes me > think I have a bad > headphone jack switch. I have heard about these going bad. Is is > common to see > bad ones from the factory? Or should I be looking for something else? > > Thanks and 73, > > Tom KG3V > _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
