[TenTec] Fast Service

[WA2BPE]

Soon after I had bought a 586 some years back, I called and complained abt
a 60Hz hum in the speaker.  They had no answer to the problem so I found it
myself - was a 1" piece of braid from the speaker wire shield to the
cabinet they had added to eliminate EMI pickup resulting in a ground loop.
Replaced the braid with three disc ceramics in parallel - no EMI, no ground
loop.  While it was open, added MOVs to the AC in - TT had no problems with
what I did - maybe because my solution to a problem cud be added to their
"fix" list??

73,  Tom - WA2BPE

Steve Ellington wrote:

> Sounds like you got ripped Jim. I don't remember reading anything about
> voiding the warranty by adding a speaker wire. Maybe it's a mistake?
>
> Steve Ellington N4LQ.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Reid" <jimr.reid@verizon.net>
> To: "Carl Moreschi" <n4py@earthlink.net>; <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 3:25 PM
> Subject: [TenTec] Fast Service
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > About 10 days ago,  I reported an odd problem with my
> > Pegasus:  it would neither hear nor xmit above 30 meters.
> > TT techs guessed a VCO had gone out,  and that I should
> > return it.
> >
> > Sent it to them on July 8th,  via Fed Ex,  from out here on Kauai.
> > They had it on Thursday.  It was returned to me yesterday,
> > Thursday,  one week later back here in the islands!  That
> > is fast turn around for a repair.
> >
> > Guess the warranty was violated by the addition of some wires
> > to bring the Peg audio out to an external speaker; and the
> > addition of a wire to the  "spare" plug on the back of the Peg
> > to bring a rcv antenna connection out for my RX-340.  I had
> > to pay for the work,  even though the rig came with  a year
> > parts/labor warranty from my purchase last December (mine
> > was bought from the TT demo list,  the units of which are
> > warranted).
> >
> > Actually believe the Peg is now in better shape than before,  hi.
> >
> > The repair report indicates they "modified the PLL circuit",
> > interesting,  hi.  The Pegasus and RX-340 are happily working
> > together again via the N4PY software for the total system!
> >
> > 73,  Jim  KH7M
> >
> >
> >
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