[GreenKeys] ASR 33 motor buzzing

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

It sounds to me like the only things in the machine working properly are 
the fuses.

In a message dated 10/22/2016 22:14:55 PM Central Daylight Time, 
greenkeys at mailman.qth.net writes: 
> I made this video just now:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtRGlk4xPkI
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>  It goes so fast it’s hard to see but it almost looked like it was going 
> backwards.  I put that pink mark on the ‘fan’ to see if I could follow it 
> but it’s too fast.  I had these modern ‘slow blow 3A’ fuses, and on an 
> attempt prior to this video, it did a short burst at the motor and then the 2A 
> fuse at F4 (by the motor) blew as usual.  Suspecting these modern fuses aren
> ’t quite up to snuff, I switched and put one of the new ones in the 3A 
> over at the PSU, and then put the older style slow blow 3A in the fuse holder 
> for the motor.  This time, as I filmed it, the fuse at the PSU blew up 
> instead of the one at the motor.
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>  So I’m wondering if maybe the fuses might be part of the problem.  When I 
> got the unit unbeknownst to me the fuse was already blown.. I thought the 
> buzzing was the motor trying to work.  Maybe I need to find an old style 2 
> or 3A slow blow?
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Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
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