Rich,
The first Pegasus that I had drew 3 amps on receive and the heatsink was
uncomfortably warm. TT said that probably the final transistor was leaking.
I was evaluating the Pegasus on the 30-day trial and just sent the radio
back.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich McCabe" <rich@1967z28.com>
To: <TenTec@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 20:03 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Sick Pegasus
> Last night I noticed something that smelled a little warm in the shack.
Not
> too bad, but warm.
>
> Today I notice the power supply is sitting at a little over 10 amps while
> the Pegasus is receiving. That seemed odd and I checked the book to find
it
> is way high. I shut things down and when I touched the heatsink on the
> Pegasus, I got burned. Very hot!
>
> The high current draw is in the PA section. I unhooked the power feeding
it
> and the current dropped back down to less than 1 amp.
>
> Has anyone else had similar problems?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
> kd0zv
>
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