[Elecraft] speaker problem

[Kevin Rock]

I was using a small phone plug but it still failed after about a year.  I 
use headphones most of the time so never took out the plug for the entire 
time.  When I was going to use the speaker I found the jack had failed.  
There are so many headphones around the house with 1/8 plugs that I would 
never need to use an adapter.  I think it was a bad batch of jacks.
    Kevin.   KD5ONS




On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:49:40 -0700, Ron D'Eau Claire 
<rondec at easystreet.com> wrote:

> Bill, K3UJ wrote:
>
> Hmmm. The headphone jack in K2 4152 is intermittent also. I'm  holding my
> breath every time I unplug. Seems to be a problematic component, at  
> least
> some
> of them are. Maybe there was a bad batch?
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Yes, that seems to have been a problematic component.
>
> I wonder how many people who have had trouble used a large plug or plug
> adapter on the phones line there?
>
> I ask because my five-year-old K2's phone jack is FB after countless
> plug-ins and un-plugs, but I may be a lot more gentler on it than most.
> Instead of a large plug, I have a very small, lightweight right-angle 
> plug
> with a small, flexible wire pig-tail that goes to a large jack for the
> phones connector. The pressure on the K2 jack is miniscule at best. The
> large connector lies on the desk. There's only a gram or two of weight on
> the connector and, since it's a right-angle connector, virtually no 
> leverage
> to amplify pressure caused by moving the phones cord around.
>
> I used that simply because my favorite headphones are equipped with a
> 1/4-inch connector, and it didn't seem a good idea to use an in-line 
> adapter
> that would place considerable stress on the tip of the plug inside the 
> tiny
> jack on the K2.
>
> Maybe I'm just lucky. Maybe not.
>
> Ron AC7AC


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