[Elecraft] I Went and Did it Now-corrected

[W2AGN]

That last message was a test, to see if you could read a new language. Here 
it is without the typos....Sorry 'bout that. I was bent about the K2, and 
didn't proofread


I guess I really screwed up. I was getting my K2 (trusty #023) ready for FD. 
I was hooking up my old laptop, to send CW with TR log. Something happened, 
and I got 12V on the outside of the serial connector. Note this didn't go to 
the 
KIO2, but to my interface, with a transistor to key the K2 in CW. I key 
through the mike jack PTT line, as I use the same interface for T/R 
switching on PSK. Always worked fine with the big computer. I had already 
set the key menu for straight Key, as I used it with the big computer a week 
or so ago, no problems.

Anyway, the voltage difference has blown something in the K2. When I turn it 
on, it is stuck on transmit. It appears something on the control board is 
blown.

I have it apart, but not sure where to start. Nothing appears fried. I tried 
tracing the "PTT/DOT" line on the schematic and just got a headache ;-)

Anybody "been there, done that?"


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