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Last night, December 11th. I also heard a pop and smelled an electrical odor.
No TX. I called an Icom service center this morning. They told me the driver
transistor probably went out. I purchased this 7000 new from AES on April 5,
2012. It goes back for repair today.

I've been considering purchasing a second new IC-7000 for my motorhome
but now I may go to Yeasu.

-Tom, W3TLN

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Teddy Edwards
<teddy.edwards52@...>wrote:

Hey All I am VP2ETE and have been running an Icom 7000 for just over 6
months. I have been using it for SSB only and on Deember 11th 2012 at

about

607 UTC while in the heart of some DX ing I heard a pop and then

observed

smoke coming from the radio. I immediately shut the station down and

waited

a while before bringing it back up. I restarted the Icom 7000 and surely it
is receiving OK but not transmitting.
I have been running the radio on 90 watts and the temperature gauge

never

went into the red area. I have been keeping the room quite cool via AC and
a fan. I have no amplifier in the shack and at the time of the incident
been using an inverted Vee antenna cut specifically for 40 meters up about
35 feet.

I would like some suggestions from the group as members are much more
experience than I am as I have only been a ham for 24 months.

Thanks all VP2ETE

Question person who has exploded driver :
Have you measured idle current of the driver before ?

=> All owners of IC7000 must do this.

This could avoid this problem.

My IC 7000 was purchased in April 2012.
Now 3800 operating hours
Any problem

This is the best radio of this size.
Same reception like IC7600 or FT2000.

Change the transistor costs only 25 euros !
Obviously you must do yourself.

Some informations on

(use google translate)

Best regards,
Ludovic Vuillermet - F5PBG



Le 12/12/2012 16:33, W3TLN a écrit :

Last night, December 11th. I also heard a pop and smelled an electrical odor.
No TX. I called an Icom service center this morning. They told me the driver
transistor probably went out. I purchased this 7000 new from AES on April 5,
2012. It goes back for repair today.

I've been considering purchasing a second new IC-7000 for my motorhome
but now I may go to Yeasu.

-Tom, W3TLN

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Does the IC7000 save the hours of operation??

Still under warranty. Let Icom repair it.

-Tom, W3TLN

I have not checked that.

73 VP2ETE

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:00 AM, W3TLN <tomnagy@...> wrote:

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Does the IC7000 save the hours of operation??

On 12 Dec 2012 at 17:52, ludoradio@... wrote:

Now 3800 operating hours

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

No, my IC7000 is online 16 hours a day (mini) from april 2012.
That's all.

Best regards,
Ludovic - F5PBG

So in that case, no problem.

:)

I would like to ask ludoradio@... how he know his 7000 has 3800
hours on it. Is that his estimate or is there a hidden menu item that show
this??

-Tom, W3TLN

Got it. Disregard my previous post.