Re: mice and the GE Master Pro What you didn't say was how the GE Master Pro in most typical cases probably kept working as normal.
Hard as heck to kill a GE Master Pro.... I'd still have a number of them in service except I have to pay the site power bill and those tx strip tubes love to stay warm 24/7. The Master Pro Receivers are still very much killer good for current repeater projects. The front ends are very stout and the design is a well known solid peformer. I hate to see the receivers go in the dumpster... cheers, skipp > The Later Mastr Pro GE series base stations used a slanted heat > sink for the 12.6 and 10 V pass regulators. The chassis formed > the back, and there was a cover on the front making a conduit for > forced air from the 4 inch muffin fan. Poor field mouse got into > the slanted heat sink, lost his grip, and went head first into > the muffin fan - - did not decapitate but did trap him there > and stall the fan - found the mummified remains some time later - > then there are stories of a micor repeater loosing the 10 v > return in the exciter - due to mouse urine destroying the > trace on the PCB and various stories of stench. Best > Memorial Day wishes to all, 73, Steve NU5D >
