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K3 audio 1 channel only?

David F. Reed-2
My K3 has developed a problem... (used to work fine in this regard).

When I plug external speakers (stereo) into the speaker out jack on the
rear panel, I only get left channel audio.
When I plug them instead into the rear headphone jack, I get both channels.

This leads me to suspect that the audio amplifier has a right channel
problem, or there is an issue with the jack.

Any ideas on how difficult it is to fix, and what is involved?

Thanks and 73 de Dave, W5SV

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Re: K3 audio 1 channel only?

Don Wilhelm
Dave,

The headphone audio amplifier and the speaker audio amplifier are
different ICs in the K3.  I suspect that the speaker amplifier has failed.

I suggest that you contact Elecraft support.
If you are capable of SMD repair, they can tell you which IC to change.  
If you are not able to work with SMD, it likely has to go to Watsonville.

In either case contact with support is the starting point for either
process.  Get into the email queue right now, they have a lot of email
backlog to sort through on Mondays.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 8/6/2016 5:41 PM, David F. Reed wrote:

> My K3 has developed a problem... (used to work fine in this regard).
>
> When I plug external speakers (stereo) into the speaker out jack on
> the rear panel, I only get left channel audio.
> When I plug them instead into the rear headphone jack, I get both
> channels.
>
> This leads me to suspect that the audio amplifier has a right channel
> problem, or there is an issue with the jack.
>
> Any ideas on how difficult it is to fix, and what is involved?
>

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Re: K3 audio 1 channel only?

markmusick
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Dave,
Do you have a sub-receiver?
Have you checked the SPKRS and SPKR + PH settings in the configuration menu?

Mark Musick, WB9CIF

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Subject: [Elecraft] K3 audio 1 channel only?

My K3 has developed a problem... (used to work fine in this regard).

When I plug external speakers (stereo) into the speaker out jack on the rear
panel, I only get left channel audio.
When I plug them instead into the rear headphone jack, I get both channels.

This leads me to suspect that the audio amplifier has a right channel
problem, or there is an issue with the jack.

Any ideas on how difficult it is to fix, and what is involved?

Thanks and 73 de Dave, W5SV

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Re: K3 audio 1 channel only?

Howard Stephenson - K6IA
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Hi Dave,

Make sure you have CONFIG SPKRS set to 2

73,

Howard Stephenson K6IA
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Re: K3 audio 1 channel only?

David F. Reed-2
Howard,

you were right; apparently somewhere along the line, it got set back to
1 from the 2 I had set it to; perhaps when I loaned it to a friend.  
Anyway,all is well now.

73 de W5SV - Dave

On 8/6/16 17:39, Howard Stephenson wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> Make sure you have CONFIG SPKRS set to 2
>
> 73,
>
> Howard Stephenson K6IA

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