Hi Flexers, I bought a hot air rework station and replaced the damaged parts last Friday. I powered it up and it worked as good as new. :)
Later that night I spent a couple hours on the air. I went to bed feeling good that all was well. At 7:00 AM I jumped out of bed to the crack of a nearby lightening strike. Yep, you guessed it, the SDR1000 was once again knock out. Although, it was nice to have it back for a while. This time it's the SGA-4586 MMIC. The SDR is still working, but the receive is down about 30db. The diagnosis has been very easy so far. Look at the schematic, make an educated guess as to what's wrong, then touch the part with your finger. If it's hot, replace it. 73, John k2ox --------------------------------------------------------- Subject: SDR1000 Damaged. Make sure you turn it OFF when you walk away. Last week the power went out for about an hour. When power returned the SDR1000 was in a random state since the PC doesn't restart until you make it reboot. Unfortunately, the SDR energized the eight outputs on the EXT Control Connector. I use the EXT control to switch six antenna relays and my amplifier. _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
