[Drake] Re-cap on TR-4
Mel Vance
icra at galaxynet.com
Sat Apr 23 00:14:19 EDT 2005
>
> Most likely a short on the filament line somewhere. Look at the
> schematic (verify it matches your serial number) and examine the
> series / parallel filament wiring that includes the dial lamps. It's
> possible that it is a heater-cathode short in a tube, shorting the
> filament string to ground at that point. Bottom line is something is
> shorting out a portion of the string, increasing the voltage on the
> rest in that string. Measuring the filament voltage across each tube
> "may" help.
>
> 1. Any electrolytic is suspect. Lacking an ESR meter, just replace
> them. Watch polarity!
>
> 2. The can is not for shielding, underchassis caps are fine.
>
> 3. It's a start! :-)
>
OK.....re-cap is a very good idea......
To make sure, I can replace all tubes except driver and finals with out doing a bunch of re-
tuning, right? Think I have all tubes except finals in the tube case...should fix any bad
filaments, and with a re-cap and touching up the tube sockets *should* fix the major
problem...
Now, any ideas on the dead 10mtr segment...Dirty segment switch? Bad xtl? Any other
common causes?
Mel
N7OKL
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