With pot at mid range, a finger on the middle pot wire that feeds the TDA2822 should definitely make some noise.
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Yes, the pot in the photograph in the wire-up instructions shows a pot without a power switch, different than the one that comes with the kit.? The one in the kit is 10k, though that is not critical. The pot ground lug is whatever lug gets the green wire, you could wire it to the lug on the opposite side from what is shown in the picture but then fully clockwise would be minimum volume. As stated before but worth repeating, the picture is correct with wires in green-orange-yellow order, the diagram at the top of the page incorrectly shows orange and yellow swapped. What TDA2822 do you have on the board?? Does it have a WX or FCI brand marking? The WX parts have been rather unreliable, the FCI seems to work, I believe all boards from hfsignals thus far have been using one or the other. May be other clone manufacturers besides WX that give trouble, I wouldn't buy anything for which you can't obtain a datasheet.?? If you happen to have an LM386 on hand, check this post and the thread around it: ? ??/g/BITX20/message/43156 You may want a 1uF cap between pins 1 and 8 of the LM386, this post incorrectly suggests 0.1uF: ? ??/g/BITX20/message/43189 Alternately, could take that wire from the center lug of the volume pot and run it into a known good LM386 amp in some other gear instead of into the uBitx's TDA2822. You will also need a ground wire over to that other gear. Jerry, KE7ER On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 11:58 pm, Tom Christian wrote:
I'm wondering if U1 TDA2822 might be bad.? Visually it looks OK and it doesn't smell burnt, but I have no static or hiss in the speaker by touching potentiometer leads, etc.? I ohm'd out connections from the TDA2822 pin 1 to the pot and the speaker via C77 and they look good.? I confirmed that pin 7 goes to VOL-M via the orange wire.? On item that confuses me a little is the wiring instructions show a 100K pot with no on-off switch connections, while my pot is 10k with on-off.? Also the instructions say to attach the green wire to the pot ground lug but my 10k pot does not connect any of the 3 lugs to ground (instead, the green wire gets ground via the ubitx board connector).? |