Re: [Drakelist] L-7 Loading Capacitor Shoritng

2011-06-11 Thread Richard Knoppow
- Original Message - From: kc9...@aol.com To: rwhitete...@verizon.net; drakelist@zerobeat.net Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 8:30 PM Subject: Re: [Drakelist] L-7 Loading Capacitor Shoritng Get a good light, and maybe a magnfyer...and eyeball that baby... You will see the issue

Re: [Drakelist] L-7 Loading Capacitor Shoritng

2011-06-11 Thread Roger White
Good idea! Roger W5RDW - Original Message - From: Richard Knoppow 1oldle...@ix.netcom.com To: rwhitete...@verizon.net; drakelist@zerobeat.net; kc9...@aol.com Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 3:08 AM Subject: Re: [Drakelist] L-7 Loading Capacitor Shoritng - Original Message

[Drakelist] L-7 Loading Capacitor Shoritng

2011-06-09 Thread Roger White
A problem has cropped up on my L-7. For no reason that I can tell, the Load Capacitor is now shorting going from Dial Number 2 to 3. It never did this before, but is doing it now. The amp was used for a year or so and then sat on a shelf for a year. I decided to replace it with another lower

Re: [Drakelist] L-7 Loading Capacitor Shoritng

2011-06-09 Thread K9sqg
Message- From: Roger White rwhitete...@verizon.net To: drakelist@zerobeat.net Sent: Thu, Jun 9, 2011 5:57 pm Subject: [Drakelist] L-7 Loading Capacitor Shoritng A problem has cropped up on my L-7. For no reason that I can tell, the Load Capacitor is now shorting going from Dial Number 2 to 3

Re: [Drakelist] L-7 Loading Capacitor Shoritng

2011-06-09 Thread john
Hi Roger It sounds like the capacitor might have gotten damaged by something knocking into the knob while it was sitting unused ? I can think of no other way for the variable cap to be shorting out now, when it wasn't before. Alternately, did you perhaps drop something or bend a plate

Re: [Drakelist] L-7 Loading Capacitor Shoritng

2011-06-09 Thread kc9cdt
Get a good light, and maybe a magnfyer...and eyeball that baby... You will see the issue, then you can fix it. 73, Lee -Original Message- From: Roger White rwhitete...@verizon.net To: drakelist drakelist@zerobeat.net Sent: Thu, Jun 9, 2011 8:12 pm Subject: Re: [Drakelist] L-7 Loading