[Elecraft] K3 front panel switches

[Dave Hachadorian]

Fred,

Try this:
http://marc.info/?l=elecraft&m=144267531705514&w=2


Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, AZ


-----Original Message----- 
From: Fred Jensen
Sent: Friday, April 8, 2016 3:44 PM
To: Elecraft Reflector
Subject: [Elecraft] K3 front panel switches

My K3, S/N 642, has been slowly developing "front panel dementia" 
[as am
I as I accumulate birthdays].  A number of the switches are 
becoming
intermittent, and often, the first push of one causes a totally
unrelated action [e.g. tapping BAND UP turns on NR].  It doesn't 
happen
with all of them and it seems like the ones I use the most are 
pretty
stable.  I find that a really positive actuation, as in hard, 
often
makes it work correctly.

My K3 is getting somewhat long in the tooth as the S/N would 
indicate,
but I was under the impression that the front panel switches were 
rated
at multi-millions of operations, and I'm sure I haven't come 
remotely
close to exceeding that.  My truck is 13 years old and is 
developing
similar symptoms [Tach says the engine is doing 6,000 RPM sitting 
in the
driveway :-)]

Curious:

1.  Anybody else experience this?

2.  If so, what did you do?

3.  How do I tell if it's time to send it into the Big E?

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2016
- www.cqp.org
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