[Elecraft] K2 Impact of installing wrong capacitor

[Don Wilhelm]

Paul,

There will be no impact to what you have done already - but if you had 
not found that error, your K2 keying would have been really messed up.

73,
Don W3FPR

Paul Huff wrote:
> As I worked today on adding more parts to RF board of my K2 I discovered that 
> quite some time ago I had installed a 22 uF electrolytic at C111 instead of the 
> correct 2.2 uF.  The wrong part was easily removed and installed in it's correct 
> place as C125, and the 2.2 uF was put in at C111.
>
> Here is my question...  Since the wrong part was in place while I did the Part 
> II testing and alignment (PLL, BFO, etc.) will these alignment settings need to 
> be redone now that the correct value is in place?  During the alignment 
> everything seemed to go exactly as specified.  The schematic shows C111 (along 
> with Q23 and R113) has something to do with the signals to and from the control 
> board marked 8T and 8R.  I think that 8T and 8R have something to do with T/R 
> switching so I am probably OK on this but I thought that I would play it safe 
> and ask the experts.
>
> Thanks in advance for any input that you might have!
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