[Elecraft] KRC2 silkscreen gotcha

Paul Fletcher paul_fletcher at me.com
Thu Nov 19 14:58:28 EST 2020


FAO anyone who's had issues getting the serial comms working on a KRC2:

R12 and R13 are transposed on the silkscreen on the PCB. I fell foul of this
when I recently built my KRC2 and it wouldn't communicate. After quick probe
around it was evident there was no negative voltage to the RS232 driver, U2.
A little further probing revealed no 12V present at R13 but there was at
R12. It was then I realised the component layout in the manual is different
to that marked on the PCB. A quick swap of resistors and everything works as
it should.

I've re-read the errata and the manual and there is no reference to this
issue. Apologies if it's been flagged up on here already but I couldn't find
anyone pointing this out though there do seem to be a few people with serial
comms issues with the KRC2.

Hopefully this is of assistance to someone.

73 Paul M1PAF



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