[ICOM] PW-1 Power problems

[John Germanos]

The same thing happened to me a couple of years ago. Power supply had a 
resistor that finally failed from over temp, took out a small section of 
trace. Hope your problem does not require a trip to Icom, like mine did.

John WB9PNU

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Visco" <ahv73 at verizon.net>
To: "'ICOM Reflector'" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 2:00 PM
Subject: RE: [ICOM] PW-1 Power problems


> My Fellow ICOM users.
>
> I have a PW-1 that has operated just fine.  Today I went home over lunch 
> to
> try to work 9u0a dxpedition and sure enough they were on 17m CW.  I tried
> for around 20 minutes and all was working without a hitch.  He QRT'd for 5
> or 10 minutes so I turned off the PW-1 and listened for his return on my 
> 756
> Pro III.  He came back on but the PW-1 didn't.  No Power.  Circuit 
> breakers
> on the PW-1 are in and my breaker at the electrical panel is OK and I even
> switched to another 220 circuit.  No Power.  All cables appear ok and
> connected.  Now could it be that the power switch itself on the control 
> head
> has malfunctioned?
>
> The PW-1 works in the standby mode for band switching.  And yes this is 
> the
> later version PW-1.
>
> Any guidance is appreciated.
>
> Tony W3EW
>
>
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