[Elecraft] Well Hell.... I just bricked my K3s

[lmarion]

What a relief!!   I love my K3S, and hope every  ham has the pleasure of a 
high performance rig.
Another Elecraft superior moment,  it did not destroy itself and waited for 
the oops moment to pass.

Another teaching moment: Check power supply is No 1 on every trouble shoot 
chart.

Congratulations Ken and 73   Leroy AB7CE

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ken Arck
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2016 9:21 AM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Well Hell.... I just bricked my K3s

Thanks to all who replied to my plea for help!

I did find the problem this morning and man, it was not what I
expected. The problem turned out to be that power was not getting to
the radio. Well,,, actually it WAS getting to the radio - to the
Power Poles -  but no further. I decided to poke around a bit and
found that the solder connection on the positive pole - it appeared
to be cracked, perhaps from the repeated removed of the power
connector but it seems that the added current draw of the 100 watt PA
did the connection in one way or another. I reflowed the connection
and the radio is once again happy.

What threw me (and why no power wasn't my first thought to check) was
that THUMP when the power button was tapped. I guess there was a
enough charge in some capacitor to do that. Ah well, live and learn....

Again, thanks to all

Ken