[Elecraft] KAT2 Problem

Thomas Beaudry [email protected]
Mon Dec 1 22:53:01 2003


> I finished a KAT2 for a ham a few weeks ago and he had
> bought the torroids pre-wound. Normally=A0the torroid guy
> does an exceptional job of winding the torroids, but in this
> case the SWR sense transformer was wound backwards
> I removed it and rewound exactly as shown in the manual
> paying attention to the direction of both windings start and
> stop. This fixed the problem. I think=A0I would check the
> transformer one more time. The symptoms=A0you are having
> are the same as I was having.

T1 was correct but I pulled it and rewound it yet again.  Windings were=20=

not shorted together.  Leads were tinned good.  Even yanked lead 3 to=20
make sure there was no short when mounted on the board.  Still acts the=20=

same.

--=20
Thomas M. Beaudry
k8la / ys1ztm
K2 # 3422


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