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

[juergen]

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  field day operations. We just replaced the parts and cleaned up the crispy critters(the tracks)!

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

I would not panic, just check the KANT3 board.


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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