K3 : 8 ERR messages

[Arie Kleingeld PA3A-2]

Hi all,

Starting this week, my K3 #1255 (year 2008) started showing ERR messages
when I swithed it on.  First ERR message was ERR BP1.
After pressing any button of the K3 the following messages appeared:
ERR LPF, IO3, IF1, XV3, AT3, PA1 and BP3.

After cycling through these messages, they are gone and everthing works
as normal.
Switching the K3 off and on again immediately after that, the same thing
happens again.

Switching the K3 off and on after 5 mins of operation, everything is
normal, no messages at all.

Could  this be caused by an empty back-up battery? Wonder if other
owners had a simular problem.

73
Arie PA3A


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[Klaus Koppendorfer]

This ist he connection between frontpanel and motherboard
Earlier k3 has no goldcontacts
Just remove scews around  frontpanel  pull off frontpanel
And clean contacts  maybee with contactspray
This will help for some time (month or years)

You can also get replacement connectors from elecraft
see
http://wb5bkl.blogspot.co.at/2012/07/elecraft-k3-p30-and-p35-replacement.html


73
Oe6kyg
Klaus


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Betreff: [Elecraft] K3 : 8 ERR messages

Hi all,

Starting this week, my K3 #1255 (year 2008) started showing ERR messages when I swithed it on.  First ERR message was ERR BP1.
After pressing any button of the K3 the following messages appeared:
ERR LPF, IO3, IF1, XV3, AT3, PA1 and BP3.

After cycling through these messages, they are gone and everthing works as normal.
Switching the K3 off and on again immediately after that, the same thing happens again.

Switching the K3 off and on after 5 mins of operation, everything is normal, no messages at all.

Could  this be caused by an empty back-up battery? Wonder if other owners had a simular problem.

73
Arie PA3A


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[NZ0T]

I had the same problem with my 2008 sn 1502 K3.  I tried cleaning the contacts with no luck.  Elecraft sent me the gold replacement contacts free and after I installed them the problem has not returned.  Not hard to do but a bit tedious.
73 Bill NZ0T