[Elecraft] K3 assembly issue

[Bill Frantz]

When I have had issues like this, I have gotten excellent support from <support at elecraft.com>.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 2/14/21 at 4:32 PM, kj7soy at gmail.com (KJ7SOY) wrote:

> I have the rev B RF board and I’m doing the manual’s resistance tests. Voltage regulators U12 and U13 
> are both supposed to test at > 150 ohms. U12 passes but U13 tests at 87 ohms. This unit has never been 
> powered up so I suspect it has to be a bad regulator. I can solder a board just fine and assemble 
> PCB’s but I’m not overly comfortable with hardware debugging. I’ve removed the side cover and checked 
> for loose boards, bad connections, etc. with no success. Anyone have any ideas how I should proceed? 
> Do I just replace the regulator? Do some other debugging?

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