Philips P3G38T Stone Dead
Received this today complete with broken dial glass :' (Put a battery in it and got a loud crackle when I adjusted the volume control, but nothing else. So whipped the covers off it and tapped the dreaded AF117's transistors with a screwdriver and it burst into life. MW was working well but nothing on LW. It played for a short while but now it's stone dead, not a crackle. Nothing,
Voltage is reaching the on/off switch. Shorted transistor or capacitor? Cheers, Jay. |
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Is that the right model number??
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Your description of the symptoms suggests the AF117s are knackered. All the usual advice applies. There may also be a problem with the MW/LW wavechange contacts, which usually need a good clean.
Has the volume control crackling stopped as well as everything else? |
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The OC82D is a pretty run of the mill transistor, and lots of types will replace it, though it does depend on the circuit. In a typical 2 transformer amp design just about any PNP device can be used, including silicon types. Ideal subs would be OC71, OC72, OC81D, OC81, AC126, AC128 but try whatever you have to hand.
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Well i changed the audio driver for an ACY18 and could hear stations on MW albeit quiet. Tapped the mixer/osc and it burst into life, So gonna swap it out. Infact i might get shot of all the AF117s. Still nothing on LW. Probably a band switch issue.
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The ACY18 should be fine, despite being intended as an industrial transistor.
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Should i leave them or replace them to prevent future problems ? ??? |
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I would change them all while you have the radio dismantled. Do them one at a time. Any Ge transistor with an ft of 2MHz or better should be OK in a MW/LW radio, and Si types of the BC214/BC558/2N3906 class should be OK too if you have them.
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Thanks for your input :thumbsup: Cheers Jay. |
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I have a load of unbranded capacitors i was thinking of using to recap the radio. The ESR on them is around 8 ohms. Is this considered high ?
Cheers Jay. |
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Could anybody tell me if the contacts on this band switch should be on the outside or the inside, See pic below. And how do you dismantle it ? As in removing the metal part ?
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Hi Jay
I would suggest changing all of those horrible AF117 transistors to those Russian equivalents, and provided the IF's have not been twiddled then you should be OK, from what you say it burst into life when the AF117 transistors were tapped, this would then suggest the driver stage and output stage are OK, I would also check the printed circuit side for any dry joints and even minute breaks in those tracks. Ken |
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Everything that could go wrong with this radio has gone wrong >:( First up the audio driver fell apart on me, Got that replaced and today i recapped the radio. It was sounding good till i decided to spray the band switch with cleaner as it wasn't receiving on LW.
Now i have misaligned contacts on the band switch and the volume is lower than it should be, And to make things worse the dial cord came off >:( And theres a few dodgy connections that i need to sort out too. But my first job is going to be fixing the band switch. Anybody know how these come apart and where the contacts are meant to be ? On the left of the switch the contacts are on the outside, (Sure thats were they're meant to be) On the right side they're on the inside.. See pic below |
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There should be contacts on the outside, in all the switches of a similar type that I've worked on the moving contacts wipe both sides of the fixed contacts.
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Well after spending a ton of time on this radio it's working again, Repaired the band switch. But still nothing on LW. And repaired quite a lot of broken wires. Problem is when the radio is out of the chassis the front panel which houses the controls and the ferrite rod hangs off the main PCB. Hence the broken connections, I replaced the mixer/osc with a ASY27. But the radio is still a bit deaf, Probably due to the ASY27 Having a gain of around 30 and the original AF117 stated as being no lower than 50 hfe.
Wasn't easy to change as it was buried under a lot of wiring, I'll pop something else in with more gain when I get a chance. |
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I doubt if the transistor gain is significant. Given that LW doesn't work and you are confident the wavechange switch is OK, I suspect there is a fault with the wiring to the ferrite rod coils.
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You should certainly do the other AF117s. If one of them is knackered then the others probably are too, as they will be from the same production batch and will have experienced the same environmental conditions.
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The set has an external aerial socket I'll try hooking that up and see if LW kicks in. Cheers |
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Dug this out today for another quick look at it. It receives fine up till about 1,200 khz then nothing. Not a crackle, The mixer/osc substitute transistor I put in is meant to be good till 6 MHz. I'll try putting the AF117 back in and see how that goes. If it works then I'll know its my choice of transistor that is that problem,
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This does happen sometimes. The mixer is the most fussy of the RF transistors. It's also possible that your replacement is out of spec.
You're learning lots about fixing old transistor radios anyway :) |
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And that's what its all about Paul. I've swapped the IF transistors out, but don't have a replacement for the mixer, So I've stuck the AF117 back in for the time being with the screen lead cut
But I'm reluctant to put the radio back together with it left in place as it could play up further down the line. Cheers, Jay. |
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I've partly reassembled the radio, Had enough of it. I.F Transistors have been swapped and i'ts been recapped. Didn't have a replacement transistor for the mixer. So let's hope that bad boy AF117 behaves itself.
It works fine. But only on MW, The band switch is a pure nightmare, Don't think it can be disassembled. Even if it could it would be brutal to work on. Nothing on LW anyway. Just need to fix the on/off switch and restring the dial cord. Can't wait for that >:( Wish I'd never laid eyes on the radio. But it's learned me a few things.......I think. Cheers Jay :beer: |
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And the fun continues with this radio. Since reassembling it I've noticed the dial scale is off. More so at the bottom of the scale. Pretty sure it was OK before I started working on it, but can't be certain.
Can't see it being an alignment issue as all the cores have wax in them, So doesn't look as if anyone has been in there before. |
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You may need to do an RF realignment. This is pretty straightforward and can be done without instruments using off-air signals. You don't need to do an IF alignment if the factory alignment hasn't been changed.
Check the ferrite rod coils and associated wiring carefully though, especially given that LW still isn't working. |
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I've got all the gear needed to do an alignment paul. But I've a feeling that's not the problem, Think it might be something in the band switching that's causing it.
Can't think of any other reason why it would be off. |
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The dial scale being "off" can be down to two things:-
1. Pointer incorrectly positioned on the spindle, drive cord or W.H.Y. 2. Incorrect alignment, generally RF alignment. If you've got the test gear why not just check the alignment at the calibration points at the HF and LF ends of each waveband? |
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It's not the pointer as that's aligned correctly per the manual. I'll try aligning the radio and see if that corrects the problem.
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Fixed, Turns out it was an intermittent wax caked trimmer. Swapped it out and all seems good now.
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