Thread: Eddystone 840C
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Old 10th Sep 2019, 10:17 pm   #40
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Default Re: Eddystone 840C

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Originally Posted by HamishBoxer View Post
That is before you find all the out of spec resistors.
HamishBoxer isn't kidding. The only Eddystone I have had through my hands was very "deaf", mostly caused by those horrible little carbon comp resistors going OOT( mostly high-some very high). I must have changed about a dozen of them.
Check them all, especially the ones over about 10K, particularly if they are designed to have a reasonable potential across them.
Unfortunately some were very hard to get at, as they were under coil banks etc.
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