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These are not all that hard to trouble shoot, much easier than a switching
supply. Put a load on it if you can get a 12 volt bulb, or key your radio
into a dummy load and check voltage at radio and at supply, compare
voltages on transmit and receive. After you've run it a while, feel all 4
pass transisters and see if they are similar in temperature. Most of the
time these short, but not always. I've worked on many of these over the
years and used them when I sold commercial radios. The 723 chips are
often socketed, not always, so not bad to change if they are. Pass
transisters are also usually socketed so easy to pull and check, just note
the pins are off center from the holes in each end, so they only go in one
way. If I remember the pins right, hold the transister with pins toard
you and closer to the mounting hole on the right. The case is the
colector, bottom pin is emiter and top pin is base. If you don't have a
transister tester, you can check with an ohm meter. Think of it as back
to back diodes. These are n p n transisters, so check base to emiter and
base to colector. With positive on base, should show like a forward
biosed diode. Reverse leads and should show open. From emiter to
colector either way should check open.
Hope all the above makes sense.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.
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