[TenTec] Orion II A9 Board Failure...Again!

[Ron Castro]

Just out of curiosity, Dick, was that the C6 capacitor that failed?

         Ron  N6IE
      www.N6IE.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick Williams" <k8ztt at mho.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion II A9 Board Failure...Again!


> Well, my O II quit right before a contest weekend that I had hoped to pick
> up a few new ones.  Called Ten Tec and upon describing the symptoms, was
> told it was most likely two capacitors on the power supply borad and they
> would send me a couple in the mail.
>
> Problem was that I wanted to use the radio;  simple answer was to drive to
> Radio Shack and purchase a couple of 470uf  35WV ones.   When I tore into
> the O II and found the A9 board, it was obvious that one of the caps had
> failed.  Replaced it with the one from Radio Shack and I was back in
> business.
>
> That was about 4 months ago and though I have received the new ones from 
> Ten
> Tec, I have not bothered to replace the Radio Shack one or the other
> "original" one that is prone to failure.   If and when one of these fails, 
> I
> will  replace both with the new ones from Ten Tec.
>
> In any case, if there is a Radio Shack near you, there is no need to be 
> down
> more than drive time plus about 20 mins to replace the bad cap.
>
> Dick K8ZTT
>
>
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