[Racal] Racal RA-6775-14 receiver

Dan Rae [email protected]
Thu, 28 Nov 2002 07:57:16 -0800


"Dongen, Nico van" wrote:
luckily this receiver is a dream to trouble shoot and one by one I
disconnected the  modules and apparently the BFO module is clamping the
20Volt, I reckon by an internal short.
> I haven't had time to investigate further so far but I would like to know if someone has knowledge of typical faults in this kind of receivers
>

In all that vintage, a very common fault is that one (or more) of the
bead tantalum capacitors will go short circuit.  That would be the first
place to look imho.
dr