[Central-Electronics] Info needed on mercury batteries in the CE-200V

[Peter Markavage]

I pulled the limiter out of my 100V years ago and replaced it with a
piece of wire.

Pete, wa2cwa
http://www.manualman.com

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:44:17 -0400 "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
writes:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:12 PM, JOHN D PLOWMAN 
> <resnwyrx at verizon.net> wrote:
> > I noticed that in the manual the refer to two mercury batteries in 
> the limiter can and that if they go bad it will cause flat topping 
> with speech.
> >  I pulled the can and opened it up and the batteries are both 
> missing and it looks like they had to be wired into the circuit 
> board. There are two diodes that look like they are new.
> >  Was there ever a mod that allowed the batteries to be removed or 
> am I going to have to purchase and install new batteries?
> 
> Dave -
> 
> Don't have the details in front of me, but it was a common mod to
> remove that entire module (just unplug it) and replace it with an
> octal tube base with components wired in place. I have one sitting 
> at
> home, actually two different bases to replace two different 
> modules,
> so I can't recall which is which. One has caps, the other has 
> diodes.
> Pretty sure it's the one with diodes.
> 
> To repair my 200V originally, I bought a pair of replacement cells
> from a camera shop where I was working at the time, SR-44 Silver 
> Oxide
> types that were a cross ref./direct swap. Soldered them in place 
> just
> to keep the thing stock. Takes a lot of heat. Most longtime users
> prefer the mod as it removes the potential for audio problems 
> caused
> by that stage.
> 
> Hope this helps -
> 
> ~ Todd,  KA1KAQ
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