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Re: [TenTec] Need help with corsair ii

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Need help with corsair ii
From: Steve Hunt <steve@karinya.net>
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:43:45 +0000
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I just made a couple of measurements on my Corsair II:

Pins 3 and 5 of U2 are at "mid-rail" - about 4v. That's what you would expect with the Reg supply being about 8v, and a mid-rail reference for U2 being developed by the potential divider R11 (10k) and R12 (10k).

Please note that you have to be careful how you measure the DC voltages on those pins; you are measuring through 1M series resistors R5 and R8 so you need to use a high input impedance meter. Clearly, the voltages quoted in the table on page 3-19 for Pins 3, 5 and 6 are wrong - they are inconsistent with the schematic and the other pin voltages; I don't think it's a coincidence that all three are much lower than they should be, and all three are fed via very high series resistors (1M, 1M and 1.5M); it looks like Ten Tec used a low impedance meter when making those measurements :)

For reference, I measure 100mV p/p of audio at U2A pin 1 when I "whistle" into a Ten Tec model 700 fist mic.

73,
Steve G3TXQ
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