[Elecraft] Haha found the relay problem

Alexandra Carter alexandracarter at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jan 23 08:15:06 EST 2006


I was looking around on the net and found one anonymous page writer, 
who had the same problem ,to quote them:
"  
  Here we see the next glaring mistake.  The instructions called for 
relays K1-17 to be installed as one the first things on the RF board; 
I mis-read it and installed K1-7.  This became apparent when the unit 
failed one of the tests.  On examining the schematic I realized it 
failed to 
  actuate some of the relays because they were not installed.  
Installing them at this point was significantly harder than 
it would have been earlier (at the proper time) but not too bad.  After 
that was corrected all tests passed.
"
I also read it as K1-7 lol! Time to go install more relays! This has 
had me puzzled, since how could the unit use the same relays to switch 
bands and the atten and preamp?
..........
OK all soldered in and retested, everything works fine! I guess those 
other 10 relays really do the rig more good in it than in their storage 
tube! 73 de Alex NS6Y


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