Kevin,
Check out the two Zener diodes above the filament transformer mounted on the
wall. The high duty cycle may have burned out one or both.
Hal W5GHZ
--- On Mon, 10/18/10, Kevin Normoyle <knormoyle@surfnetusa.com> wrote:
From: Kevin Normoyle <knormoyle@surfnetusa.com>
Subject: [Amps] AL1200, high input swr, all bands
To: amps@contesting.com
Date: Monday, October 18, 2010, 2:05 AM
I must have fried something in my AL-1200 and would be interested in
thoughts.
Details:
Was operating on 15M, rtty, when it died. I watch temps with an infrared
thermometer so I wasn't expecting to have cooked something. Although,
yeah, of course it's a higher duty cycle than typical (high speed fan
setting).
No obvious smoke. No obvious smoked or cooked parts inside with cursory
visual inspection.
Amp's HV meter reads normal.
No grid or plate current indicated when RF input applied, on any band
(with known good plate/load settings).
Driving rig indicates infinite swr (all bands). I guess this is the
biggest clue.
When amp meter is set to ALC, it indicates input RF power which seems
okay (tracks rig output power?).
I don't see the input pi-network in the AL-1200 schematics, so am not
sure what's there.
Is there something typical that gets burned out with these symptoms? Or ???
I was driving it on 15M with more rf than I need on 80/40/20 for a given
output level, but <100W (maybe 75W?)
Thanks for any thoughts,
Kevin
AD6Z
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