On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 17:05 -0400, K2ZLS wrote: > Hi, > > There have been enough posts here about the temperature inside the > K3 to start me thinking. Mine also gets very WARM on the right side by > U12 and U13. <--snip--> > I think this would be a > worthy modification at this point, if only to let the HOT AIR ...OUT.
Don't do it, it's not needed and it may mess up air circulation elsewhere causing hot spots. The heat at this location is not hot air inside making the case warm it's the side of the case being used as an (ample) heat-sink for the directly attached Voltage regulators. Warmth here IS NOT a symptom of much hotter stuff inside as would have been the case with a 'hollow state' radio, simply that the side panel is working as intended to heatsink the voltage regulators bolted directly to it. -- 73 Brendan EI6IZ ______________________________________________________________ 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
