[Elecraft] KAT2 Bump

[Don Wilhelm]

Matt,

It does sit flush when fully seated.  You may have one of two problems.  
The first thing to check is your soldering of the individual sockets to 
the wires.  If you allowed solder to wick up into the socket area, you 
have plugged the hole for the pin and it will never fit fully on - it 
only takes one socket like that to cause fit problems.  The solution to 
this is simple (but not easy) - remove the soldered on sockets from the 
housing (it takes a small needle-point to depress the little tongue) and 
replace the troublesome socket with a different one.  To find any 
sockets that are solder filled, test each one for depth with a cut-off 
component lead - it should insert at least as far as the length of the 
pins on the header.

The problem also could be that you inserted all 10 sockets into the 
housing - just like the manual instructed, so great for you in following 
the instructions! , and they just are not fully aligned yet.

The fit with all 10 sockets installed is tight because all those 
connector sockets are new.  They will give some relief after a few times 
on and off the pins.  You can plug one row of sockets onto a row of the 
pins by offsetting the connector to one side and plugging it in (Be 
*certain* to remove the power from the K2 while doing that).  Do that on 
both sides - you might wiggle it back and forth a bit too to loosen 
things up and get all the sockets into alignment.

It will go on all the way once all the sockets are properly aligned and 
are pre-sprung.

73,
Don W3FPR



Matt Palmer wrote:
> @don and the other guru's
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> KAT2 is built, however i cant get the 10pin connector to sit on p4 of
> the control board, i dont want to force it, (right now i'm pushing
> enough to flex the circuit board) is it supposed to sit flush or nott?
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