[Elecraft] KXPD1 assembly question

[Eric Ward]

I ended up doing about like Dave sez below, with the modification that I
threaded the wires through the lug holes before attaching the PC
boards--then I screwed them in and pulled the excess wire through the lug
holes with needle nose pliers, being careful not to tighten the wires so
much that they contacted the housing.  Soldering wasn't too bad with a drop
of solder on a fine tip and the lugs (esp. the sleeve lug) bent into the
middle of the cavity a bit.

Like Dave, I brilliantly connected mine backwards--i.e. ended up with a tip
connected to the right paddle and ring connected to the left--hence dits
from the right and dahs from the left.

This I attribute to my being chirally challenged. But it is true, as Dave
points out, that Figs. 5 (b) and (c) show the paddle "upside down" compared
to how it will be attached to the rig for a rightie.  A future manual
revision might note in bold that Fig 5. (c) is "backwards" so other geniuses
like me (and Dave, I guess) do not fall into the same trap.  But then again,
nothing beats actually reading the directions--duh...

73,
Eric
N0HHS 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Toepfer [mailto:davetoepfer at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 9:31 PM
To: Eric Ward; elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KXPD1 assembly question

1) bend the tip lug in at about a 15 degree abgle
2) bend the wire so that it will fit through the hole and solder it in place
with not a lot of solder
3) bend the tip lug back up some while pulling the wire up and bending it at
the solder joint
4) only bend it back enough to ensure that it will not contact the aluminum
housing and trim the excess wire
5) repeat the above procedure for the ring lug, making sure there is
sufficient
space around the ring lug wire where it threads through the channel from the
other side of the housing

Not that I didn't make any mistakes: I read the wire from the right connects
to
the tip lug but missed the fact that they said in the above illustration and
assumed they meant as I would install it (as if everyone out there is a
right'ie like me).  So I wondered for a day why the paddle was running
backward.  So I had to do the procedure I outlined above again.  :-)