[Elecraft] need fiber optic 'wire'

Fri Mar 15 19:06:01 2002

From: <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:27:30 +0000

Andy, this bounced when sent to your email address.
So am posting my reply to you via the reflector with appologies
to the readers for the bandwidth. (see below)
de Jerry/k6iii

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From: <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:43:53 +0000
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] need fiber optic 'wire'

Andy,
Thanks for the reply and URL. Also your comments help me take off the
tunnel vision and consider alternative ideas. I thought the Fiber Optic
would be fun to work with as I have not tried that before, but having so
much trouble finding it is a bit disappointing. Need a ready supply that
others can get to if they wanted to try the proposed mod.  Also trying to
make this an easy, straight forward mod. Will post my results and pix of
any mod to the reflector.
de Jerry/k6iii
San Jose, CA

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:21:25 -0500 "Wallace, Andy" <[email protected]>
writes:
> Hi, Jerry, neat idea. Didn't someone else already do some
> sort of indicator in a keycap? I believe he took the cap off one
> of the front panel switches, drilled and installed a tiny LED
> inside the switch, and put a tiny hole in the keycap to
> see the LED. That might be workable.  It may even be in the email
> list archives on the website. 
> 
> Ah, here it is! 
> http://home.earthlink.net/~n0ss/kr5l_cw_tuning_ind.pdf
> 
> Another thing which might do a reasonable job if you don't find the
> actual fiber lamp piece, is a piece of large diameter monofilament 
> fishing line. 
> 
> If you don't want to go the keycap route, you can always stick a 
> small LED under the RIT button to shine a "halo" around it when it's
on. 
> 
> Let me know what you go with!
> 
> -Andy
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 1:11 PM
> > 
> > Folks,
> > I am trying to work out an idea of using a fiber optic 'wire' 
> > to get an indicator light up to the K2 (or K1) front panel. <snip>