[Elecraft] K3 Burn In

[Don Wilhelm]

Brett,

If it was working before the failure, one should always assume a single 
failure.  Multiple failures are quite rare and are normally induced by 
some outside force (incorrect power, lightning surge, etc.)

There are instances where one failed component will take out another 
one, but that is rare too if the designer did his job right.

In any case, it is all a matter of probability, but no matter how low 
the probability of a failure is, remember that is calculated on a large 
sample size.  If you have only a single unit, the probability of failure 
for that one unit is either zero percent or it is 100 percent - there is 
just no other way to calculate for a sample size of 1.

73,
Don W3FPR

Brett Howard wrote:
> Totally agree.  I was somewhat appreciative that FD helped me find the
> problem as soon as possible and was wondering if solid type TX would be
> a good way to do an accelerated test.  From what I'm hearing now and I
> agree a FD simulation w/ full QSK running is probably more real world.  
>
> You are correct in that all I really want to do is find any underlying
> problems quickly so that I can be assured that I'm out of the 0.1%.
>
> >From reading the list I know that the K3 is a brute and they just flat
> out don't die!  I just wanna make sure that after getting one that did
> that I've chased out all the demons...  :)
>
> ~Brett
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