[Boatanchors] Johnson Ranger

[manualman at juno.com]

It's roughly 70 years old. Things get old and parts make noise. Just like
people.
We generally have trouble shooting skills to find the problem.
This is one of those times.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Fri, 17 May 2024 12:52:11 -0700 Lawrence Godek <lawrenceg94 at gmail.com>
writes:
> I was going to get on the air this morning with the locals on 40M AM, 
> 
> 7160.  When i turned the switch on the ranger from off to tune, 1st 
> 
> step, thee was a flash and loud bang.  From there after the 
> filaments 
> were lit, when you went into Phone or CW position the red transmit 
> light 
> on the front panel came on but there are no meter reading at all.  
> no 
> voltages, nothing except the filaments are lit.
> 
> that indicates the fuses are good.  I see no burn marks anywhere.  
> The 
> flash was on top of the chassis in mid air so where it originated i 
> have 
> no idea.  The secondary of the transformer is permanently 
> grounded.  I 
> just don't see on the schematic what could have happened.  Sure 
> hope it 
> didn't do something to the power tran. as that would be disaster.  
> The 
> transmitter looks brand new underneath.  I replace the filter cap 
> for 
> the HV with a 1 Kv type so that shouldn't have anything to do with 
> it.
>> 
> Larry W0OGH