[Hallicrafters] Need Advice on HT-32A Meter

[Al Parker]

Hi Greg,
    Ck what Mark says.  You can hang a digimeter right on the meter
terminals to see if there's anything getting there.  The mtr in my HT-32's
always been a bit flakey, it did have an intermittent inside at one of the
terminal posts, just twisting the post a bit would fix it (for a while).
It isn't as sensitive as it should be, or maybe my diode ckt is
weak/leaky.   I've had it open a cupla yrs ago, took pix which have snce
disappeared, there's one component inside that looks like a ceramic disc
cap, maybe a surge suppressor, I couldn't tell for sure.  Also, with its 3
terminals, it's easy to get it wired up wrong.  Somewhere I've got a
sketch that shows it properly, will try to dig it up if you need.
73,
Al, W8UT
New Bern, NC
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <wb8jkr at juno.com>
> Greg, I'm not familiar with the circuit but if it
> senses RF then maybe the RF rectifier diode
> under the chassis in the final compartment is bad.
>
> Mark  WB8JKR
>
>
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 08:24:01 EST WA1KBQ at aol.com writes:
> > Before I dig in to trouble shoot a non-working front panel "DB" meter
> > on an
> > HT-32A has anyone run into this before on one of these? Is there a
> > previous
> > history for any common faults on HT-32A meters? The transmitter
> > lights a light
> > bulb dummy load on all bands but the meter is totally inoperable for
> > registering
> > RF.
> >
> > Thanks, Greg