[TenTec] Fried Titan

[David & Chris Drake]

This witless?  Not in recent memory! But, you know, there's a first time for
everything and we all do dumb things now and then.  Hi Hi.  However, if
you're lucky, the damage is only in the front end of the amp, and hopefully,
the fuse protected the power supply.  I suggest sending it to Sevierville.
At a minumum, its worth a phone call to the service department.  I expect
they have seen a few of these fried in this manner in the past.
Best wishes, David Drake, wd9cmd


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K6JEK" <k6jek at comcast.net>
To: <tentec at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 9:31 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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