Steve,
I own K3/100 serial number 409 and I note yours is number 410.
I have never had a static electricity problem with my encoder knob
or any part of the rig.
Mine sits on a wooden desk which is sitting on wall to wall carpeting
and the rig is grounded via the house wiring
Your 2nd. front panel
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>I email'd him when he first posted to check for good ba
I email'd him when he first posted to check for good bare metal contact with
the inside
tooth washer on the encoder shaft behind the FP. Never heard back.
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Greg - AB7R
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On Tue Dec 1 15:00 , "Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft" sent:
>I've as
I've asked our support guys to contact him. This usually only is a
problem on very earlyK3s where the inside area of the front panel sheet
metal was not masked off when powder coated. That resulted in leaving
the VFO encoder shaft un-grounded. Its possible one of the newer FP
sheet metal pieces
I have an early K3 that had the ESD problem. I removed the front panel and
board attached to the front panel. I removed the VFO A encoder and burnished
the paint off around the backside of the front panel encoder hole. I have not
had an ESD lockup since.
I also had an Omni VII that had the sa
Karl N6XVT,
Ground the radio. If it is, test it. The see if your front panel is
grounded.
Hope it will help.
N6XVT 73
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On Nov 30, 2009, at 6:39 PM, "Steve Ellington"
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> What can I do to eliminate the static electricity problem with K3?
> Every
> time I touch the m
the summer, Elecraft sent me a new front panel with the latest revisions.
Since then I've had this static problem so someone must have slipped up! 73
Steve
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Since touching the VFO knob causes the problem while touching the case does
not, I suspect your VFO encoder is not grounded to the front panel sheet
metal.
You can check with an ohmmeter if you're not adverse to removing the VFO A
knob*. Put one probe on the metal shaft of the encoder and the oth
I had this problem occur with my Omni VI back in the 90's. When I would
walk in the room and touch the VFO the rig would shut down. A friend
across town had the same problem with his Omni VI. It took us a while
to figure out it was static electricity.
Ten-Tec's fix was to send out a short pi
Hold on a moment Steve. Before you buy a humidifier, let me suggest
that something appears to be ungrounded internally as you suggest. My
shack is in an unhumidified work space in New Mexico. I can generate a
good bit of static if I wear a fleece sweater and slide just so on my
office chair
A little further investigating and I found this:
> "We also had a few occasions where the operator stood up (sliding across
> the chair) and touched the radio [Omni VII] and got zapped - resulting in
> the radio needing to be turned off and on again. Unlike the ORION, this
> routine takes only
Steve,
I recall a VFO static problem with one of the Ten Tec models. My memory has
faded, but I thought part of their solution used a series of highly
conductive felt washers on the encoder shaft. Anyway, it would be
interesting to see if Ten Tec's encoder kit for that problem could be
adapt
Guy, K2AV wrote:
>
> Static electricity is YOUR problem, not the K3's. If you are rubbing
> your feet over a rug, spray it with static spray. Or ground yourself
> on a little bit of static pad that you put there for the purpose. Do
> something so you are not a lightning bolt every time you mo
Steve,
In addition to being bad for your radio, the dry air that's allowing the
static charges to build up on your skin aren't good for the rest of your
body (sinuses, skin, etc.). We use a "whole house" humidifier that sits on
the floor near the wood stove ("Vermont crude" is a lot cheaper than t
Static electricity is YOUR problem, not the K3's. If you are rubbing
your feet over a rug, spray it with static spray. Or ground yourself
on a little bit of static pad that you put there for the purpose. Do
something so you are not a lightning bolt every time you move.
You keep zapping it like t
What can I do to eliminate the static electricity problem with K3? Every
time I touch the main VFO (A) knob the display goes dark, audio goes off,
frequency changes among other things. After about 5 seconds it recovers but
somewhat off frequency. Just a little foot shuffling will develop enough
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