[Elecraft] 160 fixed in KPA100 and some tips.

[Don Brown]

Hi

Elecraft uses the convention that pin one of most components has a round pad 
and all other pads are rectangular. The round pad at pin one can be easily 
mistaken for a board feed through and can be missed when soldering. I have 
made this error several times on the 15 K2's I have built. I now always 
solder pin one first on all parts to make sure this does not happen 
(although it still happened on the one I am building now on a relay pin in 
the VFO)

Don Brown
KD5NDB


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jess Gypin" <jessmx5 at earthlink.net>
To: "Elecraft at Mailman.Qth.Net" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:08 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] 160 fixed in KPA100 and some tips.

<SNIP>


 I pulled the board and DOH!!
> found that I had not soldered pin 1 of U2.