That's not as much a dig as it might sound. A common occurrence after lightning damage is for components to weaken and then fail later on, on their own inconvenient schedule.
A question for the K3 repair guru's...is a lightning damaged board replaced and tossed, or repair of the lightning damage attempted? Is the warranty for such repair the same, or is there a caveat for lightning damage? 73, Guy. On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Grant Youngman <n...@tx.rr.com> wrote: > What I find remarkable is that Elecraft is even willing to look at a radio > that has suffered lightening damage. > > Back in the mid-90's I took an indirect lightening hit that left a bit of > molten metal around the shack. Two other radio top 3 manufacturers were > totally unwilling to even attempt repairs. The policy was -- "Lightening > induced damage, we won't touch it". Nonetheless, I had to send the radios to > the manufacturers, and pay for 2-way shipping plus a "service" fee, just to > get a letter to give my insurance company stating the equipment was > "unrepairable". It might have been, or not, but the service departments > wouldn't even check. > > Grant/NQ5T > > > On Jul 4, 2010, at 2:00 PM, Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft wrote: > >> >> with the larger number of K3s damaged from lightening strikes and other >> physical damage. > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > ______________________________________________________________ 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
