RE: VECTOR: Amplifone repair

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Chris,

I don't know who put the Penn Trans in; it came that way to me.  The guy I
bought it from pulled it from a SW so I assumed it was put in back in the
day.  I was going to get the BU406D's from Banzai for two bucks a pop.
Thanks for the tip on the chem-wik.  And I always need light bulbs...

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher X. Candreva [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 10:28 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: VECTOR: Amplifone repair


On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 [email protected] wrote:

> Perhaps a better way to put it is my desoldering skills.  I have, over the

Well, you could start in worse places than a Ampliphone HV board. At least 
the traces are all large. 

Do you know who did the original work on this unit -- who would have done 
the Pen Trans install, or did it come that way ?

The Ampliphone FAQ 1.2 is fairly up to date. The only thing I don't see 
added since  is replaceing C8, a problem I pulled my hair out over. The 
thread with my experience starts at: 
http://www.vectorlist.org/Vectorlist/2003/04/0064.html

Also -- whatever source of BU406D's you find -- get 10. They are like fuses.

For testing the HV, all else you need are a good meter, soldering iron and 
desoledering wick. I like chem-wik. Neither Mouser or Digi-Key seem to carry

it, I've found it at Hosfelt Electronics (www.hosfelt.com), a surplus 
discount house. Among other things, you can get a case of light bulbs for 
$5, so it's fairoly easy to pad out an order. (Yes, standard 60 or 100 watt 
bulbs :-).

-Chris



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