Jeff, The body color of inductors, resistors, capacitors will vary from time to time depending on the manufacturer's whims, and therefore is not a good point of reference for any component identification. The color bands are the only thing that are important. It is unfrotunate that the K2 manual does indicate the body color for the RF chokes - that was only valid at the time the manual was created.
The smallest RF choke with color bands brown-black-brown should be used for RFC15. You may be confused by the body color on the other RF chokes, none are colored Green-Brown-Green which would indicate an inductance of 5,100,000 uH or 5.1 Hy which would be a very large choke (it could be 15 uH Brown-Green-Black, but I cannot be certain on that). Refer to the K2 parts list for the various chokes that are provided with the kit, and if that is not sufficient clarification, the ARRL Handbook Components Data chapter has good information on component color coding and identification. 73, Don W3FPR > -----Original Message----- > > I'm at the stage where I need to put the little tiny RF choke on > the bottom side of the RF board. > > The manual calls for RFC15, which is supposedly tiny, and > BROWN-BLACK-BROWN. The only one I have that's brown-black-brown > is a larger one. The little tiny one I have is GREEN-BROWN-GREEN. > > Which one is right? :) > > And, for RFC 1, 2, 12 and 13, they're supposed to be Green > chokes, but I seem to have 3 greens and one tan colored chokes > for this band combo. Could that be possible? > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.10/625 - Release Date: 1/13/2007 5:40 PM _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
