[Elecraft] Ooops -- think I fried the IF amp...

Ward Willats elecraft at kg6haf.com
Tue Sep 21 01:07:33 EDT 2004


Well, I finished the SSB adapter for my K2/100 tonight and slapped 
in. All worked until I switched in the SSB filter then signals 
dropped to almost nothing.

OK, problem in the filter, so I got out some wire and a cap and was 
jumping the end of the SSB filter chain with the middle (and it did 
seem there was a problem in the second half..)

Then without thinking I jumpered the first third of the chain at CD 
to the xtal output jack at P3/J10 neatly bypassing the step-down of 
T2 and slamming some nice voltage onto the main board and, I assume, 
into the IF amp.

Signals were very loud for a moment though!

Now all the audio is gone in all modes -- CW, SSB..ack!

Is it worth banging around trying to chase this, or shall I just 
embrace my shame and send the whole mess off to Elecraft?

-- Ward "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" / KG6HAF


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