[TenTec] Orion II repair

Gary J FollettDukes HiFi dukeshifi at comcast.net
Mon Aug 8 23:35:15 EDT 2016


I am not the first owner. I bought it with this problem hoping I could fix it.

Gary



> On Aug 8, 2016, at 3:29 PM, Stuart Rohre <rohre at arlut.utexas.edu> wrote:
> 
> Gary, before you shotgun all the capacitors, look at all the solder joints for the affected boards with a high intensity light, and a magnifier. A head mount magnifier with light may work, but I often use and independent high intesity Halogen light we bought for troubleshooting.
> 
> I am betting on one or more bad solder joints.  How old is this radio? Are you the first owner?
> 
> Stuart Rohre
> K5KVH
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