KAT500: Won't power on unless I remove the DC power cable and reinsert it ...

[Jim Hooper]

I turn my KAT500 off, and then turn it on first before powering the rest of my K-Line on.

But two or three times now the following has happened:  when pressing the ON button for the KAT500, nothing happened.   I wiggled the power cable in the socket on the KAT500, nothing happened.  I removed and reinserted the power cable and the KAT500 powered on automatically with my pressing any buttons.

What might explain this behavior?  

73,
Hoop
K9QJS
San Juan Island, WA  
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[Michael Eberle]

I had issues with intermittent connections with the power plug on mine.  
Don't remember if I was using the cord that came with The KAT500 or not,
but I haven't had any more problems since I switched to another cord
with a better fitting plug.

Mike
KI0HA

On 6/21/2015 9:45 PM, Jim Hooper wrote:

> I turn my KAT500 off, and then turn it on first before powering the rest of my K-Line on.
>
> But two or three times now the following has happened:  when pressing the ON button for the KAT500, nothing happened.   I wiggled the power cable in the socket on the KAT500, nothing happened.  I removed and reinserted the power cable and the KAT500 powered on automatically with my pressing any buttons.
>
> What might explain this behavior?
>
> 73,
> Hoop
> K9QJS
> San Juan Island, WA
>

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