[TenTec] Fried Titan

[Greg Mijal]

Probably not.
Musta confused it with something else.
Sorry bout dat
Greg

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott / W4PJ" <w4pj at bellsouth.net>
To: "Discussion of Tentec equipment" <tentec at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Fried Titan


> What power transistors?
>
> The Titan uses (2) 3cx800's if I'm not mistaken.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
>
> AR de w4PJ
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Mijal" <bluebirdtele at earthlink.net>
> To: "Discussion of Tentec equipment" <tentec at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 12:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Fried Titan
>
>
> > Has anyone not done this is a better question Jon.
> > I used a HP signal generator for an antenna on an NCX 3 once.  Killed
the
> > generator.
> > You may  want to check the power transistors outside of the circuit.
> Maybe
> > do that first and see how much it is really going to cost to get here
back
> > in the pink.
> > Good luck
> > Greg
> > WA7LYO
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "K6JEK" <k6jek at comcast.net>
> > To: <tentec at mailman.qth.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:31 PM
> > Subject: [TenTec] Fried Titan
> >
> >
> > > I cooked my Titan I this afternoon.  I managed to route the output of
> > > my homebrew AM transmitter into the Titan input when the Titan was on
> > > and ready to amplify.  It seemed to think that 300 W carrier with 1200
> > > W peak was more than it wanted.  POW, smoke, dark.  Not much smoke,
> > > just a tiny bit.  It did blow a fuse but when I replaced the fuse, the
> > > grid current meter pegged on power on even before the B+ kicked in.
> > >
> > > I'm now poking around on the bias board where there seems to be a
fried
> > > 1/4 W resistor.  It will be grand if that's all the damage.
> > >
> > > Any advice?  Have any of you ever done anything this witless?
> > >
> > > Jon
> > >
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