Re: [Elecraft] K3 died again and fixed

2019-11-14 Thread David Box
If you are doing hand solder replacements of SMD capacitors you should make sure you follow procedures to either pre-heat the component or take extreme precautions to guarantee that the soldering iron does not touch the capacitor electrodes.  Thermal shock with cause the metal endcaps to crack

Re: [Elecraft] K3 died again and fixed

2019-11-14 Thread Geoffrey
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Re: [Elecraft] K3 died again and fixed

2019-11-13 Thread Martin Sole
A few days ago I posted the below message but had not had time until today to dig a little deeper. I took as my starting point the loss of both receive and transmit as an indicator that the culprit would likely be something common to both and given the lack of receiver noise whilst the P3 panad