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Kristina Wright-2

Inventory

Hi all,
I was recently doing inventory on my new K2, and on page 5 of the RF
section I found a slight discrepancy. In the description of RFC4,
RFC5, RFC8, RFC9, and RFC7, it says they have green bodies. However
mine have the same color bands but have tan bodies. Will this make
any difference?
Thanks for the help!
73,
Kristina
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Craig Young

Re: Inventory

Kristina,

I asked that same question of Elecraft recently. The answer was that it has no impact and that sometimes suppliers just change the color.

73,

Craig AC6NN

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Kristina Wright <[hidden email]>

> Hi all,
> I was recently doing inventory on my new K2, and on page 5 of the RF
> section I found a slight discrepancy. In the description of RFC4,
> RFC5, RFC8, RFC9, and RFC7, it says they have green bodies. However
> mine have the same color bands but have tan bodies. Will this make
> any difference?
> Thanks for the help!
> 73,
> Kristina
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N8LP

Re: Inventory

In reply to this post by Kristina Wright-2

I ran into the same problem awhile back with my LP-100 Digital Wattmeter
kit, and it was because the green Miller chokes I was buying were
temporarily unavailable due to the RoHS changeover. I switched to a
different brand that were tan, and now am back to the green ones. I
suspect that my choices were similar to Elecraft's. I didn't see any
difference in performance.

73,
Larry N8LP
www.telepostinc.com

Kristina Wright wrote:

> Hi all,
> I was recently doing inventory on my new K2, and on page 5 of the RF
> section I found a slight discrepancy. In the description of RFC4,
> RFC5, RFC8, RFC9, and RFC7, it says they have green bodies. However
> mine have the same color bands but have tan bodies. Will this make
> any difference?
> Thanks for the help!
> 73,
> Kristina
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Don Wilhelm-3

RE: Inventory

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Kristena,

IMHO it is a mistake for a kit manufacturer to attempt to identify
components by body colors. The ROHS compliant changes at Elecraft over the
past year or more have pointed out the futility of that attempt.

Identifying the component body color was likely an effort to help the
builder, but by initially doing that, the effort has now caused more
confusion. A component can be one color today and another color tomorrow
(except for the color code bands).

73,
Don W3FPR

> -----Original Message-----
>
> Hi all,
> I was recently doing inventory on my new K2, and on page 5 of the RF
> section I found a slight discrepancy. In the description of RFC4,
> RFC5, RFC8, RFC9, and RFC7, it says they have green bodies. However
> mine have the same color bands but have tan bodies. Will this make
> any difference?
> Thanks for the help!
> 73,
> Kristina
>

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Tom Hammond-3

RE: Inventory

Heath, if I recall, used to ID some devices by SIZE, specifically a
scale-drawn illustration you could lay the suspect component against.

Might work in this case, esp. since Elecraft used several different
SIZES of RFC in their kits... if all the same color, and possibly the
same color coding, the only difference will be size.

But I don't look for them to go out and immediately reprint that
(just printed) batch of new manuals... <G>.

73,

Tom

At 12:42 PM 3/2/2007, Don Wilhelm wrote:

>Kristena,
>
>IMHO it is a mistake for a kit manufacturer to attempt to identify
>components by body colors. The ROHS compliant changes at Elecraft over the
>past year or more have pointed out the futility of that attempt.
>
>Identifying the component body color was likely an effort to help the
>builder, but by initially doing that, the effort has now caused more
>confusion. A component can be one color today and another color tomorrow
>(except for the color code bands).
>
>73,
>Don W3FPR
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > Hi all,
> > I was recently doing inventory on my new K2, and on page 5 of the RF
> > section I found a slight discrepancy. In the description of RFC4,
> > RFC5, RFC8, RFC9, and RFC7, it says they have green bodies. However
> > mine have the same color bands but have tan bodies. Will this make
> > any difference?
> > Thanks for the help!
> > 73,
> > Kristina
> >
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Dave Mueller-3

Re: Inventory

In reply to this post by Kristina Wright-2

I believe if you look very carefully, there is a slight size difference. I think two of the chokes have the same value, but there's a note somewhere that you put the larger one in a particular place. Easy to do when they're different colors. One of the two went on the bottom of the board. I could be mistaken, I've built so many things recently (K2 + most of the modules, KAT100).

Dave AA3EE
K2 #5929

>From: Kristina Wright <[hidden email]>
>Date: 2007/03/02 Fri PM 12:08:36 CST
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>Subject: [Elecraft] Inventory

>Hi all,
>I was recently doing inventory on my new K2, and on page 5 of the RF
>section I found a slight discrepancy. In the description of RFC4,
>RFC5, RFC8, RFC9, and RFC7, it says they have green bodies. However
>mine have the same color bands but have tan bodies. Will this make
>any difference?
>Thanks for the help!
>73,
>Kristina
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