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Re: 2901 owners, I need your help.


 

I have to disagree. I've been over every millimeter of of this unit and can find no part that is more than slightly warm, and those parts are the 22 RTL logic chips. So unless all the chips have all equally drifted upward in current draw I must conclude that the issue is bad design with regard to heat sinking. So I've put all the original capacitors back in the instrument and replaced the BR with a more modern type that is chassis mountable. I found there is a convenient unused stud on the inside of the rear chassis panel. The new BR, which also ran rather warm in the air, now runs cool and just barely warms the rear chassis after about 30 minutes of use. I tapped the new BR directly into the secondary of the transformer and installed jumpers on the PCB in place of the old BR.

On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 10:57 PM, Tom Lee wrote:


I agree with Ted. The rectifier should not ever run too hot to touch. Either
there is a problem with the rectifier itself, or something else is drawing
excessive current. That shouldn¡¯t be too hard to find ¡ª it will be hot,
too. If you have one of those cheap IR laser-aimed thermometer pistols, you
should be able to locate it without risking a finger burn, if you want to go
high-tech. But you don¡¯t need such a gizmo ¡ª old-school sniffing about
works.

Tom

Sent from my iThing, so please forgive typos and brevity.

On Oct 6, 2021, at 7:44 PM, tedbmoss@... wrote:

?It won't work for long if you can't touch the rectifier. One or more of
the TTL devices is needing replacement.




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