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

[Charlie T, K3ICH]

One more reason to NOT use power-poles.

Did I mention that I don't like them?
They are hard to use, over-rated, unreliable and not re-useable.

Charlie k3ICH



-----Original Message-----
From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
lmarion
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2016 11:49 AM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net; Ken Arck <ken at arcomcontrollers.com>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Well Hell.... I just bricked my K3s

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 

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