[Elecraft] K3 Service Manual

[Jeff Wandling W7BRS]

Sorry for the rambling email earlier.  Your .procmailrc filter may be 
overheating already.

Uh, I too would like to chime in and add my opinion that a service manual 
at a reasonable cost even, would be be valuable shack tool.

I find myself in the situation I thought I wouldn't be in for a while -- 
repairing my K3 or at least debugging the hardware and although I'd have 
110% confidence in Gary and the rest of the K3 guru's in Aptos, the 
ship-down/ship-back anxiety wouldn't be worth it _if_ I could trouble 
shoot the problem partially (or even fully) myself.  I've never met a SMD 
that I wasn't afraid of replacing;  diving in the deep end of the pool 
doesn't bother me in the slightest.  I just need data/information about 
the thing I'm tinkering with.  The schematics help, but some overlay 
information about the device would complete the picture.

Something along the lines of the K2 assembly  manual would be a good 
start.  The K2 assembly manual pointed the way at each stage and gave 
testpoint data to expect.  That's all I'm really asking for, in the 
context of the K3 and the options for the K3.

If any amount of effort is required to assemble the Service Manual, then 
maybe the request can fall back behind other pressing issues, obviously. 
But now that the production run is keeping up with the demand (it seems) 
and the corner is nearly turned on getting major functionality through 
beta testing a Service Manual may be bubbling up the list, I hope.

Let the cascaded email thread begin, subject to Eric's KKILTHRD3 button.

-jeff

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Jeff Wandling DE W7BRS K3 #2105     http://w7brs.com/k3
jdw at w7brs.com