[TenTec] S Meter Lamps

[Hawkins, Bill]

The s-meter lamps in my OMNI VI+ flickers (dims) but not off.
It does it by itself with me doing nothing and it does not do it all the 
time. I see no reason.
Before I go inside, is the fix described below the same?
Bill


At 08:55 AM 2/16/98 -0600, you wrote:
>In an OMNI V:
>
>             "It's the little things drive you crazy"
>
>Have your S-Meter lamps been flickering OFF and ON? Especially when
>you touch the front panel PassBand or Fade controls? You figure, how
>are they related?
>
>Take the top cover off and look inside. The grounded metal brackets that
>the S Meter lamps are mounted on are very very close (about the
>thickness of two layers of Scotch 33) to the screw heads on the back of
>the S Meter. If they touch, out go the lamps. Slipping a small piece of
>insulating material between them does the trick.
>
>73
>Ron/K5PN
>
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