[Elecraft] K1 crystal grounding

bill KE5KWE bdfogel at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 4 09:34:13 EST 2008


I am currently building a K2 and there is no such caveat.  Each crystal is
grounded, individually per instructions.  Some are tied togeather, others
are grounded on the top and others are grounded on the side or bottom.  But
I would follow the instructions in the manual and not improvise.

Good Luck, Bill KE5KWE


Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy wrote:
> 
> Carl,
> 
> FWIW when building crystal filters I have found that soldering the
> grounding 
> wires to the bottom of the cans provides better isolation between crystals 
> than to the top of the cans IF there is proper shielding in place 'below 
> deck' and the crystals are laid out side by side in a straight line. If 
> there is no shielding in place 'below deck' and if the filter crystals are 
> not placed in a straight line there might not be any improvement gained by 
> tacking to the bottom vs the top, since the crystal to crystal unwanted 
> coupling could well be less than the unwanted coupling taking place 
> elsewhere in or around the filter. The use a single wire and one ground 
> connection to ground two or more crystal cans should be avoided if at all 
> possible.
> 
> IMHO I would leave your K1's filter crystal grounds as they are to avoid 
> reheating the crystal cans.
> 
> In my K2 I have the KSB2 installed and I did tack separate ground wires to 
> the bottom of the crystal cans when building it, but the leakage around
> the 
> filter masked any improvement in my case..
> 
> 73,
> Geoff
> GM4ESD
> 
> 
> WA7CS wrote on Thursday, January 03, 2008 3:33 PM
> 
>> I'm currently building the K1.
>>
>> When I built a K2 a few yers ago, there was an errata sheet or a builder
>> alert, etc. advising that crystal grounding should be done near the
>> bottom
>> of the crystal can as opposed to the top of the can.
>>
>> I can't seem to find similar advice for the K1.
>>
>> I've already installed all of the crystals with the ground wire soldered 
>> to
>> the top of the cans.  I'm considering going back and tacking the ground 
>> wire
>> to the sides/bottom of the crystal cans.
>>
>> Also, in the K2, I seem to recall that all of the crystals were grounded
>> together with a wire along the top - no similar instruction for the K1.
>>
>> Should I do this, or is any potential benefit not worth the effort/risk?
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