[Elecraft] KSB2 Install Question

[Carl J. Denbow]

Bob, Don, Dennis, et al,

Thanks for your responses.  I also received an offline response from Gary at Elecraft support.  I'll paste his response in below because it fills out some of the details.  In essence, you were all correct.  I don't have a problem on this score.

Carl
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Yes, the KSB2 manual was written long before the new instructions on
grounding the X5-X11 crystals in the K2. You just have to keep the wires
down near the lower 1/2 of the crystals, or at least down enough from the
top that they do not interfere with the installation of the KSB2.

Apologies for the confusion. The KSB2 manual needs updating on this, or an
errata item.

Thanks for reporting this.

--
73, Gary AB7MY
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-- 
Carl J. Denbow, n8vz at qth.com on 5/10/2004


On Mon, 10 May 2004 15:14:07 -0700, Bob Miller wrote:
> Carl,
>
>
> I have ser 4175 and experienced the same thing. I  checked the
> clearance and installed the KSB2 per the instructions.
>
> Bob
> 2B6KWT
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carl J. Denbow" <n8vz at qth.com>
> To: "Elecraft" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 5:52 PM
> Subject: [Elecraft] KSB2 Install Question
>
>
> This weekend I put together the SSB Board -- although I have a few
> hours of work left on the main K2 kit.  I wanted to make sure that
> I had SSB ready to go when the K2 is finished.  When I finished the
> SSB board and looked at the installation instructions, it had a
> rather weird sentence or two saying that if the filter crystals X7-
> X11 were ground on the left side that this would interfere with the
> SSB module installation.  Well, when I construct the RF board the
> instructions clearly said to ground the aforementioned crystals on
> both left and right side.  Furthermore, I did a test mounting of
> the SSB board and discovered that the left side grounds for the
> crystal covers do not seem to make any kind of physical contact
> with the SSB board.  My question is is this perhaps a case of my
> KSB2 instructions being written (2 May 00) before those from my
> main kit (22 Oct 02).  Perhaps, a modification was made in the RF
> board which makes these KSB2 instructions null and void. It's
> either that, or poor instructions in the general kit manual.  And,
> we all know Elecraft wouldn't do that! :-)
>
> Any clarification here would be appreciated!
>
>
> Oh yes, for the record, I have SN 03116
>
>
> 73
>
>
> Carl
> N8VZ
> --
> Carl J. Denbow, n8vz at qth.com on 5/9/2004
>
>
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