Quick query on KX1 parts list - RF chokes

[Pete Spotts]

Folks,

I'm going thru the RF-choke envelope, and for L7, I have a gold-gold-red instead of the manual's yel-vio-gold. Intentional parts change? Or is the manual correct? I see nothing about L7 in the errata sheet.

I have not yet opened the resistor pack, so no inadvertant parts confusion here - yet. ;-)

With best regards,

Pete Spotts
KC1JB
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[Don Wilhelm-4]

Pete,

Your eyes are playing tricks on you - gold-gold-red does not make any
sense for either a resistor or an inductor.  Gold is only used as a
multiplier band (0.1) or a tolerance band (5%).

Have someone with good color vision (usually female) take a look at it
under good light (sunlight is great).  Even if she does not know the
color code, she can relate the colors seen.  Be certain not to confuse
the body color with the color bands.  Sometimes a color band is the same
as the body color.
The color saturation used to be much better - and that is not just my
aging eyes, I have some old components with nice bright color bands to
compare.

73,
Don W3FPR

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> Folks,
>
> I'm going thru the RF-choke envelope, and for L7, I have a gold-gold-red instead of the manual's yel-vio-gold. Intentional parts change? Or is the manual correct? I see nothing about L7 in the errata sheet.
>
> I have not yet opened the resistor pack, so no inadvertant parts confusion here - yet. ;-)
>
> With best regards,
>
> Pete Spotts
> KC1JB
> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
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[gdaught6]

Don wrote...

> Have someone with good color vision (usually female) take a look at it
> under good light (sunlight is great).  Even if she does not know the
> color code, she can relate the colors seen.  

Yes, but she's apt to say things like "mauve, lavender, taupe" which probably doesn't
help with the problem!  8-)

73,

George T Daughters, K6GT
CU in the California QSO Party (CQP)
October 3-4, 2009


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[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Give her a list of the possible colors and let her choose -

After all, aren't multiple choice tests always easier? All you have to do is
eliminate the impossible and then, as the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective
said, "...whatever remains...must be the truth."

Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----
Don wrote...

> Have someone with good color vision (usually female) take a look at it
> under good light (sunlight is great).  Even if she does not know the
> color code, she can relate the colors seen.  

Yes, but she's apt to say things like "mauve, lavender, taupe" which
probably doesn't
help with the problem!  8-)

73,

George T Daughters, K6GT
CU in the California QSO Party (CQP)
October 3-4, 2009


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