[RTTY] Followup on ESD from last week

[Ron Kolarik]

Bill the IC-746 was prone to the same failure mode. Fixed mine before
it happened, high value R, rf choke and a gas gap on the input.
Probably overkill but it's the last line of defense in the radio.

73,
Ron
K0IDT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Turner" <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com>
To: "RTTYReflector" <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 4:10 PM
Subject: [RTTY] Followup on ESD from last week


Got the report from the factory on my non working IC-7600. Turns out it was ESD 
damage. Three diodes and one IC were destroyed on the tuner control board. Not covered 
by warranty of course, so that learning experience cost me $223.45 plus shipping of 
$85 each way. Ouch.

There never was any lightning, just that kind of precipitation static I've heard 
hundreds of times before, but will never hear again more than a fraction of a second. 
:-)


Take a lesson, boys and girls.

73, Bill W6WRT
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