[Elecraft] Bad start to FD - smoked a K3!!!!

juergen plebian99 at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 26 17:28:27 EDT 2010


Hi Bill

You probably smoked the KANT board. 

The 8mhz trap  seems to get smoked by  nearby high power transmitters. This happened to 2 of our clubs K3's in a field day operation. We just replaced the parts and cleaned up the crispy critters(the tracks)!

This happened with widely separated  antennas and separate power supplies.
You just about  have a heart attack when smokes pours out of the K3!

I would not panic, just check the KANT3 board, I could be wrong!


73
John


--- On Sat, 6/26/10, NZ0T <NZ0T at cox.net> wrote:

> From: NZ0T <NZ0T at cox.net>
> Subject: [Elecraft] Bad start to FD - smoked a K3!!!!
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Saturday, June 26, 2010, 6:06 AM
> 
> We had one guy get on 75 with a KW with another on
> 40.  Guy on 40 didn't
> know.  He got the RFI warning, the K3 locked up and he
> smelled smoke.  Now
> his K3 has no RX at all.  I thought there was a high
> power protection
> circuit?  We have other rigs to use but any input as
> to what needs to be
> done with the smoked K3 would be appreciated before he
> sends it back to
> Aptos.
> 
> 73 Bill NZ0T  My K3 is OK
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