[Elecraft] Minor kit building tip

Bill Coleman N2BC n2bc at stny.rr.com
Thu Jan 5 10:37:54 EST 2006


I've just started building K2#5290.  Thought I would pass along a small 
building tip. 

The search function of the current Adobe PDF reader is quite handy for 
finding things in the manual. 

Example 1:  Having just finished populating the caps on the Control 
Board, I noticed the spot for C44 was empty. A quick search of the PDF 
manual on "C44" took me to page 21 and explained that C44 is unused.

Example 2:  At this point I had expected all the non-electrolytic caps 
to be mounted, but I had one .01uF (103) left over.  Since I had done a 
thorough inventory, I figured I screwed up. A search on "103" eventually 
took me to page 20 and the added C46 for the keying shaping circuit on 
the bottom side of the board.

A caution... after finding your info in the PDF manual, double check 
with your errata marked-up paper manual!

Anyway, the search function saves a lot of time flipping pages - and is 
undoubtedly more thorough than scanning with tired eyes.  It works on 
the schematic pages too!

Having fun!

73, Bill  N2BC



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