[FARC] Help me debug my tuner kit?

[m.e.whitmore at comcast.net]

David,

Here are some suggestions as why your tuner is not working.

1) One of the resistors R1, R2, R3 is open.  Not likely but possible.

2) One or more connections to the toroid inductors is open.  This is

   more likely. The wire on these inductors is enamel covered and sometimes

   it is hard to get a good connection if you don't get all of the enamel

   off.  If you have a Volt/Ohm meter, an easy check would be to measure

   the resistance from the input to the output of your SLT with S7 in the

   operate position. This should give a low reading of probably less than

   one ohm.  If you now switch S7 to the tune position, the reading should

   change to about 51 ohms.

I will bring a meter to field day next weekend in case you have not been able

to get together with Rolan.

73,
Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Kindred" <david at retroscape.com>
To: "Maryland ARC Frederick" <farc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 9:48:11 PM
Subject: [FARC] Help me debug my tuner kit?

Hi, guys,

I know you all are considerably smarter than I am, so I'd like to ask for
help. I just assembled a Hendricks SLT+ QRP tuner
(http://www.qrpkits.com/sltplus.html) and I must have done something wrong.
I'm not able to get a match on the antennas I've tried, even though they've
been cut per specification. The kit is fairly simple, which makes it all the
more embarrassing that I haven't gotten it to work. 

Would any of you knowledgeable folks be willing to take a look at it and
help me determine the problem? I was hoping to set up a QRP station for our
field day.

Much thanks and 73,

--David, K3PO

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