[Elecraft] KXPD1 assembly question

[Ed Parish K1EP]

At 6/15/2004 09:58 AM, Eric Ward wrote:
>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.

I believe that I soldered the wires onto the PC board first and trimmed them to length.  Then I carefully bent about 1/16" or so of the end of the wire at a right angle.  I had the lugs on the plug arranged to make it easy to get my soldering iron in there.  Then I used a very thin needle nose pliers and hooked the wire onto the lugs and soldered.  

>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.

Software corrects for hardware mistakes.  You can rewire the paddle or just change the left-rightness with the appropriate menu setting.