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New to me Motorola R-2001b


 

Hello everyone is the subject says I have a new to me Motorola r-2001b.? It came with the cover and all the accessories except for the CRT sun shield.? CRT is in good shape. I was looking at the unit when I purchased it and it had a image on the CRT that followed when pressing different functions.??
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When I got it home and turned it on of course it did nothing.? ?Horizontal sweep was extremely pinched almost down to a vertical line, almost.? Sometimes the monitor will boot other times it does a partial Boot and sits there and screams with a single tone.??
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I do see some suspect capacitors that look like they have corrosion underneath the translucent shrink wrap.? From the manufacturer codes it looks like this one was made sometime in 1982.? It's a good clean shape.? I am suspecting power supply issues to start. The capacitors in question are on the power supply modules. The two large computer type capacitors show no signs of corrosion or leakage.??
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I will be getting the LCR meter out and measuring the capacitance and ESR of those large computer capacitors.? ?And I will also be replacing the suspect ones.? Other than not pushing the test probe too far down into test point 201, is there anything else to look at that is a common failure point? When the CRT did have an image it had a ripple wave in the screen in the horizontal plane moving slowly up the screen.??
Any experts out here on this old dog???
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Thanks,
Randy.
randy.ab9go@...


 

p.s. I do have a copy of the manual.??
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Thanks,
Randy.
randy.ab9go@...


 

I am not an expert on servicing the R2001B which is an almost entirely different animal than the D version which was the last to be released. But the main point is that only the D version did fix many well known issues that where prevalent in the earlier A-C versions, including the elimination of the somewhat flimsy front swing handle. Another issue with these monitors is that the early ones had Magnavox CRTs that tended to get weak and fail way too soon. For the D series Motorola started using imported AEG and Telefunken CRTs that performed much better over time, but given the age of these instruments now, one should always check that the CRT is still good no matter what version. And once the CRT goes bad there is no easy alternative but to find a replacement ("unobtanium"), try using a CRT restorer to restore some of the life in the CRT, or jury rig an external XY monitor. Without a working display the R2001 is basically useless.

So my only advise in this case would be to start checking all power supply voltages BEFORE doing anything else like swapping caps etc. And for anyone else out there looking to get one of these R2001 service monitors to ideally always shoot for a R2001D, and even better if its a HS variant (high stability main oscillator).

There are many variants of the R2001D with slightly different model numbers depending on options like cellular, encryption, trunking, etc, but the desirable radio testing base capabilities are always present on all of them. One of my service monitors is a R2008D-HS, which basically is a R2001D with an added card for analog cellular testing. When I got it it had a few problems like a flaky tuning encoder ("RF Scan") and the PL/DPL tone generation was not working. Was lucky enough that seller had lots of spares on hand and send me a replacement board to fix the tone issue (was a bad crystal), and also a working rotary encoder.


 

Check the transistors on the video board looking for cracked and broken leads or they could be cracked internally. ?Look at the solder connections on the boards also.?
if I remember it’s the A11 board.?
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The problem is the transistors are too big for the leads and they break.?