[Elecraft] K6XX CW Indicator SMD Button LED Key installation

[Douglas Hagerman]

Can anyone explain how the SMD LED is to be mounted in the key cap for the K1 or K2 installation of the K6XX CW Indicator? I have an unbuilt kit (well, it is built now) and the key cap kit, but no instructions for how to install the LED. The key cap in the kit is drilled, and the LED appears to fit into the rectangular opening in the key cap so that the LED would shine out the hole. But then how do you connect to the LED?

There are also two SMD 3.3k ohm resistors in the key cap kit. I can visualize putting the LED in the cap, and then soldering the two resistors onto the LED into a U-shape, and then wires onto the ends of the resistors, I guess. That would give a resistor value comparable to the 6.8k ohms mentioned in the main part of the kit.

The main part of the kit also has a regular (large) LED that I could use with the “looking out an existing hole” method, but the keycap idea seems attractive—IF I can figure out how to do it!

Thanks.

Doug, w0uhu.