[Boatanchors] Valiant a OK now!

[mikea]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 05:41:33PM -0500, Joe Roth wrote:
> 
>    Thanks all for the pointers. A couple of you hit the problem dead on.
>                            Ok, I have a red face!
>    I went by the color of the leads of the old caps, C93, but as I looked
>     over my work and was getting set up to check the socket voltages, I
>                      decided to review the schematics.
>    I did a few double takes and couldn't believe what I was reading. Are
>     these schematics right I wondered? Study a bit more, considered the
>    circuit, and the light bulb went off... C93 WAS backwards. Dang I was
>                       lucky those didn't make a bang!
>     Lesson: don't trust old wire color.Verify by the schematics! I feel
>          sorry for the many new hams that can not read schematics.
>              On the air I go with a good start to the new year.
>                                    73 all
>                                     Joe

Join the club, Joe. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt collection
and the complete set of hats. Started with wiring a diode in bass-
ackwards in an Ampex FR-1400, way back in 1965, and still do it every
once in a while. 

Very glad you got it scoped out. Do light it up and have a happy SKN.

73, de

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Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin