[ICOM] 75 PRO III Smoked!

[rrocket88 at netzero.net]

Anyone know the Serial number break between what is considered Early  / Late production PRO III ???  It would be nice to know.
 I Love my Pro III  

73, Randy K4IMZ

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Stephen Budensiek <kzerosd at gmail.com>
To: ICOM Reflector <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [ICOM] 75 PRO III Smoked!
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:52:33 -0500

I just checked.   They have the early IC-756Proiii service manual, but
not this later one.  I'll see if I can figure out where I got it from.

73's de Stephen, K0SD

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On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Jim n4uoz <n4uoz at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> here is the site for service manuals   http://www.mods.dk/
>
> --
> Jim Sherwood,  N4UOZ
> n4uoz at arrl.net
>
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>
>
> On 2/21/2012 4:30 AM, Stephen Budensiek wrote:
>> Jay,
>>     Don't know if this will be of any interest to you, but I found a
>> IC-756ProiiiServiceManual2007.pdf somewhere on the internet, don't
>> remember where.   Just checked it, it shows the drivers as being
>> RD15HVF-1 FETs.   It a full service manual, with parts, layouts,
>> voltages, it's a 29 mb file in a zip, that you can unzip into a pdf
>> file.   I was looking at a Pro3, wanted to see what I could find, and
>> found this, along with a earlier Proiii service manual.   It may have
>> been the German site that has lot of Icom and other stuff on it, but
>> can't remember for sure.   It has a very long file name, something
>> like "IC-756PRO3_Service_manual_REVISED_June_2007 at magfmegfld.zip"  on
>> the download site.   Wouldn't mind sending it to you, but not sure how
>> I could upload a 29 meg file via my email, think Gmail limits me to
>> something like 8 meg.   Let me know if I can help you.
>>
>> 73's de Stephen, K0SD in So FL
>>
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>>
>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:21 PM,<jkolin at optonline.net>  wrote:
>>> I have a late production unit. It has the newer PA Board using MOSFETS as drivers and finals.
>>>
>>> 3 Days ago I was checking SWR on a new ant. 2/1. Key down w/100W for about 10 seconds. After a few SWR measurements power dropped to 5 W max. Then I could not go into transmit mode. After about a minute in receive mode, smoke billowed out of the rear panel from the PA compartment.
>>>
>>> Removed top covers and found 3 burned SMD resistors. R38, R39&  R40.  4.7 ohm. All 3 are in parallel.
>>>
>>> Anyone have problems with this newer PA board? I have not been able to find parts layout drawing that applies to this new PA board.
>>>
>>> Thanks for all your thoughts.
>>>
>>> Jay....
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