[ICOM] Water damage to PW-1, now inop
Larry Gauthier (K8UT)
K8UT at arrl.net
Sun Apr 22 17:55:39 EDT 2007
Due to a burst water pipe, water poured into my PW-1 while it was operating!
for a few brief moments (less than a minute) yesterday. I immediately
removed the cover, dried the components that had gotten wet, and blew a fan
into the amp for 8 hours to dry any remaining water.
Upon turning on the amp today, all visual indicators seem to be working
properly - all the normal indicator lamps work, bandswitching works, tuner
functions, ACC1 connection tracks the band that my 756 is switched to, and
the fan starts. Everything looks normal UNTIL I switch to transmit mode.
Then the amp/protect lamps switches to red and the band LED begins blinking.
This failure occurs on every band, regardless whether the tuner is engaged,
and into a dummy load (perfect SWR).
Any suggestions as to where I should look? Or is it time to pack it into a
large box and ship it to Icom?
-larry
K8UT
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