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Crackling problem solved, but can't receive stations.

Posted by Peter G. Balazsy on 02/20/2010 03:10

:One more thing, yeah-that resistor always confused me too, but it was in there when I got it, (check bag of old parts I included). I don't remember cracks around the screws, sounds like somebody dropped it. There is a small crack on one side, and a chip in one corner I tried to fix with super glue.
:Still, it's a nice radio, and generated a couple of interesting threads here and at ARF.
:Thanks again-
:t.
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:IPAddress: ***.28.48.106

As a follow-up Terry..
I should indicate that when I swapped the leads on the oscillator coil to get it working.. I didn't just simply do that as a wild guess. Nope.

What I actually did to troubleshoot it was to place my scope probe near the oscillator coil and noticed it was not oscillating.

So then I did the following:
1.) Checked the schematic to see if the 4 main wires to the coil were connected properly and noticed that the schematic showed the resistance values of both windings.. so I knew then that I could not only check for continuity of each winding but that I would easily be able to determine each one by the resistance.
I was not able to determine however if the two wires that needed swapping were connected properly though as the print did not indicate which lug on the coil was which.

2.) Reading the notes page I saw a blow up drawing of the oscillator coil that did clearly indicate which lugs connected to where.

3.) Traced the lug leads comparing to the blow-up drawing and noticed that two were reversed.

4. Unsoldered all 4 leads and checked the windings for continuity and saw they were both good. Then by measuring the resistance differences I was able to confirm the identity of the two windings.

5.) Rewired all 4 leads back to the coil in the proper place.

6.) Turned it on and it played fine.



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