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Re: [TenTec] Orion PLL Problem

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion PLL Problem
From: Gary J FollettDukes HiFi <dukeshifi@comcast.net>
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Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 19:35:10 -0500
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ED, you do need to do the things that have been previously described to you on 
the power distribution board and the battery replacement.

If these do not solve your problem, I have a known good synthesizer board so 
all is not lost.

Hope you got it cheap, but it’s not even close to “brick” status yet.

Gary



> On Oct 16, 2016, at 11:44 AM, P C Andy Anderson <xtraham58@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> ED, Most of us are changing the 3 capacitors on the A9 board. This is the 
> power distribution board. While your in there change the battery.
> 
> 
> Just my suggestion.
> 
> 
> Andy, W3li
> 
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> Confess to general lack of knowledge regarding Orion so perhaps
> question obvious.  I have a chance to buy an Orion at an attractive
> price, but owner says it has a problem of losing PLL lock.  Turning rig
> off and then on fixes problem for awhile and then it will happen again.
> 
> Is this a problem that has at least a set of probable causes and
> diagnosing and fixing can be done with a reasonable investment of time
> and money?  Or is this one of those problems that may be
> unfixable and may lead to it becoming a brick?
> --
> Ed Lawson
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