Re: [Elecraft] KNB2 Installed, but...

2011-01-23 Thread L Kendall
Don, thanks. Larry K5END On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 20:50 -0500, Don Wilhelm wrote: > Larry, > > You probably have some slivers of aluminum embedded in the thermal pads. > Unless you have some good thermal conductive material laying around, I > would request replacement thermal pads from pa...@elec

Re: [Elecraft] KNB2 Installed, but...

2011-01-23 Thread Don Wilhelm
Larry, You probably have some slivers of aluminum embedded in the thermal pads. Unless you have some good thermal conductive material laying around, I would request replacement thermal pads from pa...@elecraft.com. BTW - when you replace the hardware, do not use the internal toothed lockwashe

[Elecraft] KNB2 Installed, but...

2011-01-23 Thread L Kendall
I built the KNB2 board and installed it today. No problems with that, but it occurred to me while the 100 Watt board was removed to check the TO220 packaged Q7 and Q8 on the RF board for any electrical continuity to the heat sink . I have to back those 4-40 nuts out to barely finger tight or it m