[Elecraft] K2 Assembly problems/Info 080 Message

Don Wilhelm w3fpr at embarqmail.com
Sun Mar 3 21:16:02 EST 2013


Tom,

Did you remove the Front Panel board and the Control Board before making 
those resistance measurements.  Those resistances are for the board 
alone after its assembly.  When plugged into the RF board, the 
measurements can be different.

Does U1 still get hot?

73,
Don W3FPR

On 3/3/2013 7:32 PM, Tom Fuller wrote:
> Hello Don, on power up I am still getting Info 080 message and garbled
> frequency display (and no relays are clicking), alot of the menu functions
> show up correctly though, I checked the following as you indicated: RF Board
> U1 is oriented correctly and no pins are bent, jumper is set for INT on
> P7,pin 1 is soldered correctly on Front Panel U1, and my soldering is done
> correctly so far everywhere after re-checking all of it, I did some
> resistance checks on the control board, could not get a reading on the
> following: p2 pin 1, u3 pins: 8,13,14, u8 pins: 2,15,16 (got readings on the
> rest of the control panel test point checks)...for resistance checks on the
> front panel board I could not get a reading on the following: u1 pins 4,
> 13-40, j1 pins: 1-7, 9-11, 13-14 (got readings on the rest of front panel
> test points); for RF board resistance checks I could not get readings on the
> following: u1 pins: 4,9,10,28, R1 and R2, (got readings from rest of rf
> board test points)
>
> thanks for your suggestions, anything else I should try at this time?
>
> thanks and 73,
>
> KE4QCM
> Tom Fuller
>
>
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