[Elecraft] It Works, but "Not Inst" Message

[Christian Adamec]

Hello,

I would like to thank everyone for responding. Unfortunately, I still 
do not have this problem solved. Very frustrating! After some more 
poking around, here is what I can say about this. It only happens when 
I press 'Menu', not when pressing 'Display'. It is intermittent, 
although it happens more often than not. After pressing 'NB', it seems 
to go away for a while. I have checked all my soldering on each board. 
I could not find any solder bridges anywhere, nor any globs of solder 
not on a pad. I checked the direction of all diodes and the are all 
correct. Hmmmm...

Thanks,
Chris KC9GSV

On Feb 1, 2005, at 11:21 PM, Dale Wiese wrote:

> Chris,
>
> It was a while back, but I think I had this same issue.  The problem 
> turned out to be a diode installed backwards on the control board.
>
> 73,
>
> Dale, N9XD
>
>
> On Jan 31, 2005, at 5:43 PM, Christian Adamec wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Well, I got up to the power on test for K2 #4718 and it worked! Very 
>> exciting. Prior to this, the only electronics that I had built were 
>> Elecraft's noise generator and test oscilator, which I plan to use 
>> with the K2.
>>
>> The issue, though, is that when I tap the menu button or the display 
>> button, "not inst" will flash for a second before the menu is 
>> displayed. All tests checked out after power up, except the keyer, 
>> since I don't have a paddle. Let me add that at this point, I am 
>> missing one pushbutton switch, S16, which I am waiting on a 
>> replacement for.
>>
>> Is this message a problem or something to worry about? Like I said, 
>> everything seems to be working just fine, except for this message 
>> that flashes occaisionally. I couldn't find anything in the manual 
>> regarding this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris KC9GSV
>>
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