Look for cold solder joints. Also consider the possibility of a bad
clock crystal. Be careful around the counter chip. It is an obsolete IC
and may not be available from Ten Tec.
73,
Bob WB2VUF
> w6hv@surfbest.net wrote:
>
> Greetings. I'm trying to get help for a friend having a problem with
> his Corsair II readout ( he doesn't have email, much less a computer).
> He says that "periodically the digital readout is garbled and it takes
> awhile to warm up and straighten out. Then in about 5 or 10 minutes it
> will (completely) die."
> I researched the archives and found a couple of references to
> unplugging/plugging the connectors to clean them and replacing a
> capacitor on the processor's reset line. Any other suggestions that I
> could pass on to him?
> Thanks in advance and 73,
> Troy, W6HV
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