Hi Mark, I had the exact same issue. It looks like pins in the manual are probably shorter than they are in the latest kits. I put it on 2/3rds of the way and it seemed to 'latch' in place. I finished assembling the kit and the fan was working so I figured that was good enough.
Cheers, Travis K2NP ZL3AB wrote > Hi > > The [fan] connector stops about two thirds of the way down the pins. It > seems there is something in the connector itself stopping them going any > further as the connector socket not used goes all the way down easily. > > The picture in the assembly manual suggests the connector should go all > the way to the bottom so if anyone has any suggestions I would appeciate > it. > > 73 > Mark ZL3AB -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/KPA500-Fan-Power-Connector-issue-tp7570653p7571160.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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