Well, thanks to a hot tip emailed in from Wayne, VE3CE, I found out that
ther IS a mod to the voice board for this very problem. I called Ten Tec
this morning and Don confirmed I needed to install one (or two) diodes,
banded end down, between the 3rd connector pin and the plated-through hole
marked IC8 by cutting the trace there. Don said this was to drop the
voltage, not as a blocking diode. I'll get to that shortly and see how it
works.
=Vic=
WA4THR
> Vic,
> I have two Paragons, one with the V.6 and one with the V.3 Gielh chips.
> Both have the Voice board (#257). Recently, I experienced the same
> symptoms as you are having, i.e., a drained Ni-Cad battery, in less than
> 12 hours. I did some changeouts and found that one of my Voice Boards,
> no matter which radio it was in, was causing the problem. All the "Voice"
> functions continued to work fine, just a drained battery, overnight. I
pulled
> the suspect board and the radio now retains memories and the trickle
> charge is functioning fine. I have shipped the Voice Board to TT and
> hopefully, they will find the problem.
>
> Jim/Ke3nK
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