[RTTY] Followup on ESD from last week

[Bill Turner]

You'd think that 1 meg resistor would be standard. 


73, Bill W6WRT




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> From: Jim W7RY <jimw7ry at gmail.com>
>To: Bill Turner <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com>; RTTYReflector <rtty at contesting.com> 
>Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 5:05 PM
>Subject: Re: [RTTY] Followup on ESD from last week
> 
>That is Icom's standard response when they don't feel like covering 
>something under warrantee. They tried to tell me that on a NEW IC-7200 that 
>was dead out of the box and had never been on an antenna.
>
>I appealed, they covered it under warrantee.
>
>If there stuff is so susceptible to ESD , it sounds like a design flaw?
>
>
>73
>Jim W7RY
>
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>From: "Bill Turner" <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 2:10 PM
>To: "RTTYReflector" <rtty at contesting.com>
>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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